Helldivers having DRM was the red flag for me to not play it. I'm not surprised they are making more bad decisions.
this post was submitted on 04 May 2024
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It's not an apology if you keep trucking right the fuck on along. You apologize, in part, by fixing the problem. Absent that, it's just empty words. Meaningless.
You can't fix a problem that you're being forced to create by your owners.
Sony owns them. Sony says "force PSN log in" and Arrowhead either does what they're told or gets replaced.
Make a deal with the devil, and the cost might be your soul
They are an independent studio...
Sony is their publisher and gets to force their hands on things.
If they say no they cease to exist on any platform, steam included.
just wanted to argue against your comment that they 'own' them
Is "making something disappear if it doesn't comply" not the definition of owning?
nope
"This is entirely out of our control, and if you want an apology, here are the contact details for the person who has the authority to give you one."
Yes, please, because the rootkit implication that every single one of my fellow Helldivers is cheating wasn't enough for Sony (hell, that was only their foreplay)... Now, we get the next step in the data mining cash grab.
I mean, what did you expect? Truly.
It's not just a data mining cash grab. It's a bigger cash grab than that. If they had required the account link from the beginning they would not have sold the game in countries where you can't get a PlayStation account.
They clearly waited until the hype from the game settled in before they made this requirement so that they could make all of the money from the countries they don't service.
That way they could squeeze a little extra out of the player base by mining their data long enough later that players can't get a refund. Doesn't matter to them that they're forcing players in half the geological world to quit.
Truly despicable. They should be forced to issue refunds to players they are effectively kicking from the game, but something tells me nothing is going to happen.
Well I remember the Sony XCP rootkit scandal, and that is 2 decades ago.
Yeah, same. This species is fucked. 😅
Better.
That one's on me -_-
I don't, but I do at least expect that a massive corporation will at least try to make money by not doing something this fucking foolish, I swear they fucking hate money and reputation.
"Alright dev studios, your assignment is to bake a cake. Core feature: it must be possible to eat the cake, and then still have the cake"
Arrowhead: wtf