Re: Helldivers 2 to require Playstation subscription even bought on Steam for PC.

On 04/05/2024 14:34, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sat, 4 May 2024 09:09:18 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
 

On 03/05/2024 19:43, Justisaur wrote:

Helldivers 2 was looking like a pretty good squad Co-op game, I was
somewhat interested, but so many things to play, not enough time.  It
won't affect me if I were to play it, but there's regions where it was
sold that the PSN isn't available.

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The part I don't like about it is it being done respectively*, so not
giving customers the option to choose before they decided to buy it.
That's just a bit scummy.

 

*My understanding is that's technically not true but the statement
saying this was going to happen wasn't made particularly clear upfront.

  I assume you mean retroactively. There's no respect here from Sony.
 

Yep.

They saw their game was popular, and decided to try and leverage that
popularity into getting their network a bigger marketshare. It's all
about what is good for Sony; it has nothing to do with benefitting the
customers.
 

It certainly feels that they were always going to do it but didn't want to at launch in case of any lost sales. That is a bit scummy because if the reasoning they are using as to why it's being activated now is true then why didn't they have it a launch.

I'd love it if Valve started offering all Helldiver 2 players the
ability to return/refund the game, no matter how long it has been
since they purchased it, since this seems a fairly significant change
to the requirements box.
 

Tricky one as it's still fit for purpose (as long as you can continue to play it in your region) just not quite what a buyer may have wanted. If it was me, I'd be really peeded off as I try and avoid any additional game launchers. That's why I still haven't got anything from the Epic store, oh and who owns it doesn't help. It's not fair you have a monopoly as I want it.