Three days and over 260,000 overwhelmingly detrimental current opinions on Steam later, Sony introduced on Twitter that the Could 30 replace scheduled for Helldivers 2 that will require Steam and PlayStation Community accounts to be linked for all new and present gamers is not going to be transferring ahead. In line with the tweet, PlayStation continues to be studying what’s finest for PC gamers and the suggestions has been invaluable in serving to them attain this conclusion. After three days of hell for gamers and Helldivers 2 builders, the one query remaining is: how did Sony anticipate this to go another manner?

Properly, that was pointless

The initially deliberate replace would pressure Helldivers 2 gamers on PC to create and hyperlink a PlayStation Community account to their Steam account in an effort to play the sport in any respect. Sony claimed this was the intent since launch, however a plague of launch points resulted within the linking requirement being dropped briefly. Now that servers are rather more steady, the plan was to as soon as once more require the account linking.

Followers have been clearly upset by this transfer for a lot of causes. First off, some areas don’t even have the choice to create a PlayStation Community account, which might have made it actually unattainable for them to play post-update. In line with PCMag.com, this led to Valve pulling Helldivers 2 from the Steam retailer for sure nations in addition to providing refunds for gamers in these areas no matter earlier play time.

Additionally, why was this even essential within the first place? Gamers are taking part in on PC in spite of everything, not PlayStation. So why require them to have a PlayStation Community account? The entire thing appeared out of contact from the get-go, and though Sony has finished the suitable factor and backpedaled on its plans, it does really feel prefer it left no less than considerably of a mark on participant belief in Sony. As a PlayStation fan, however total a PC gamer first, I’m thrilled that Sony is beginning to carry video games to PC. However hopefully this complete ordeal was a lesson effectively realized, not an indication of issues to come back.