aaaannnnd the award for most clown awards farmed in one day goes to

I never get clown awards.

Edit: Now I do. Also new badge and 10 XP. Thanks. :)

Whats the problem with this? 🤔

I don't even have that account... So I take I am never going to buy that game...

does anybody know where the MASSIVE$$$ amount of steam points go??? the single dev account that published the game?

Bummer for those who can't. I already had mine linked months ago.

Wanted to know if the community acted like mature, responsible and sensible adults or if they just downvoted the game in a temper tantrum. Checked reviews, was not disappointed.

Here's a good chance for you to climb the global steam ladder. ^^

On one hand, it's really not surprising this is now becoming a requirement being that Playstation is the Publisher for Helldivers 2, and also it's really not even difficult to link an account, much less make a PSN account. I linked mine when I first got the game, so for those who can easily do it and just don't feel like it are just throwing a fit IMO. On the other hand though, I'd understand the complaints a lot more if you had to also have PS+ for online play on PC, now that would be stupid asf and that would cause the majority of the community to leave, including myself until changed. Also, it's completely reasonable for those who cannot even make a PSN account in their country if they already own Helldivers 2, hopefully that can be fixed for them. Just my take though :)

I know creating account is free for PS

There are good people many clowns on both sides

I was going to buy this game to play with a few friends in the future to have a good time but I guess not.

Removed from my wishlist.

Completely understand players. New requirement after couple of months is stupid. Either have it as a requirement at point of sale or leave it optional. For new players? Sure, they can decide if they want to play the game or not. For current players that cannot refund? That just doesn't make sense.

I think (and hope), that some customer ombudsmen in EU may take a strong objection to this move. It probably breaks EU RODO regulations as well. I'm also curious, if Sony is watching the Ignore counter for the game. I sure hope, that they do, and that my ignore is one of many more coming with this decision.

Not the first time, that they do their best to kill their game. They have done even worse, almost killing EverQuest 2 selling their customers. For months they have even insisted, that their EU players using US servers will have to transfer to EU run servers, leaving their communities. Before they backtracked on this, US servers have been already devastated. The tsunami caused by them has been so strong, that even an Aussie guild on US server, that I've been a part of, got destroyed before they've finally gave up this idea .of forcing all EU players out of US servers. And EQ2 has never recovered since then :(

Here. if interested, you can see my goodbye with my guild and with my beloved Horse of a Different Color (which randomly changed color every time, that you mounted it), when I was expecting, that very shortly I'll get forcefully transferred to an EU server. Probably the most heartbreaking event in the whole 20 years of my online gaming. At the last moment they have made a U-turn, but it's been much too late for me, for my guild and for the whole community :(

EDIT: Oh, and the typical Sony's answer to problems caused by them - the topic has already been locked by the moderators, so folks could not complain any longer, lol.

Mandatory change for people that already own the game and can't refund? And all that so Sony can get more telemetry of what I do in steam? Thanks, but no thanks

I'm fine with this if they allow refunds. Let the players decide and they deal with the consequences of their choice. Fair to both sides.

What a shame

It mentions "we allowed the linking requirements for Steam accounts to a PlayStation Network account to be temporarily optional". So were people aware this was eventually going to change?

They locked it so I couldn't say I approved that message and farm me some jester points...
But it is a really moronic thing to do, lol. "Due to technical issues at the launch of HELLDIVERS™ 2, we allowed the linking requirements for Steam accounts to a PlayStation Network account to be temporarily optional. That grace period will now expire."
We're just starting to enforce it now due to technical issues in our brains, we were going to show that PSN accounts were required when it launched, but we accidentally flashed ourselves with a mind wipe device when the issues with the game were happening, and we just now saw the notes we had left for ourselves saying we didn't want too many content players.

I linked my PSN account right away, and it wouldn't be too hard to make a new email to sign up for a PSN account and forget about, but that's just a stupid thing to require and conveniently forget to mention until now. XP

EDIT: Changed wording because technically they did say it was required before, despite them proving it wasn't.

That's impressive.

My favorite part of Sony's announcement is tge part where they say they're requiring the game being linked to PSN accounts to offer safety and security to gamers. PSN. Which has been data hacked at least ten times in the last decade. Lulz.

People drop PSN due to Stellar Blade.
Suddenly people are required to get a PSN account for Helldivers.

Hmmmmmmmm.....

I straight up don't understand the outrage. Like, it was clearly indicated in the steam page, I remember very well checking it before buying. And it was indeed active during the first 2 weeks but was allowed to people without PSN after because the servers had problems handling all the users.

they have reached 7219 clowns in just under 24 hours
and have nuked the stores review score

Holy cow, I just checked reviews, it went from extremely positive to mixed and seems to be going into mostly negative. Well deserved tbh.

its almost reached the number

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