{"id":7638,"date":"2024-05-06T16:47:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T16:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=7638"},"modified":"2024-05-06T16:47:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T16:47:20","slug":"sony-backtracks-faced-with-anger-of-helldivers-2-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=7638","title":{"rendered":"Sony backtracks faced with anger of &#8216;Helldivers 2&#8217; players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em><small>Sony angered PC players of &#8216;Helldivers 2&#8217; by trying them to force them to link to PlayStation Network account &#8211; Copyright AFP ADEK BERRY<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sony backtracked Monday after players of its popular cooperative third-person shooter game \u201cHelldivers 2\u201d pushed back against a requirement to link with its PlayStation Network platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelldivers fans \u2014 we\u2019ve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update,\u201d Sony said on its X, formerly Twitter, account for\u00a0its PlayStation game console.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese firm provoked anger after announcing last Friday it would require PC players of \u201cHelldivers 2\u201d to link their Steam account with the PlayStation Network.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Steam is a popular platform for playing video games on PCs, tablets and phones, while PlayStation Network is a similar platform for PlayStation users.<\/p>\n<p>Sony said the planned May 6 update, requiring new users to link their accounts, had been scrapped, along with one planned for the end of the month, which would have obliged existing users to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Linking accounts allows PC and PlayStation players to play together, but PC players saw being forced to do so as a move by Sony to artificially boost the numbers of its online players.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore,\u00a0players in 177 countries where it was not possible to open a PlayStation Network account saw their access cut over the weekend, according to the SteamDB database.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve lost access to my main Helldivers 2 account because I live in the Philippines,\u201d said Zanny, a YouTuber with 2.3 million followers, on X.<\/p>\n<p>Fans quickly made their\u00a0displeasure known, posting 200,000 bad reviews of the game on Steam within three days, tanking its rating and pushing Sony to react.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still learning what is best for PC players and your feedback has been invaluable,\u201d said Sony on the PlayStation X account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelldivers 2\u201d, which came out in February on both PCs and PlayStations, allows players to play soldiers sent from planet to planet to battle hordes of insects and giant robots in an ambiance similar to the 1997 action film \u201cStarship Troopers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by the Swedish studio Arrowhead and published by Sony, the game has proved to be extremely popular, with PC sales helping drive it to Sony\u2019s seventh highest grossing game ever, according to analyst Mat Piscatella at market tracking firm Circana.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Analyst Doug Creutz at TD Cowen estimated 8 million copies of the game had been sold by mid-March.<\/p>\n<p>Arrowhead\u00a0chief executive Johan Pilestedt said on X he was \u201cimpressed by the willpower\u201d of Helldivers players.<\/p>\n<p>He also thanked PlayStation \u201cfor quickly and effectively making the decision to leave PSN linking optional.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Sony backtracks faced with anger of &#8216;Helldivers 2&#8217; 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