While PC gamers have at all times been in a position to hyperlink their Steam and PSN accounts for Helldivers 2, the system was not enforced by Arrowhead at launch, so many opted to skip it. Now, that’s altering. Moving ahead, all PC gamers for the sport must hyperlink their Steam account to a PSN account and a number of followers are sad with the choice.
A wave of destructive opinions of the sport have hit Steam since Arrowhead introduced the change, bringing the sport’s latest ranking right down to ‘combined’ after being overwhelmingly constructive at launch. Most of the latest opinions now are particularly calling out this alteration, and lots of the prime rated opinions have been up to date to voice concern with the change too.
Arrowhead might have prevented a few of this if it had been extra clear about this alteration coming ultimately. At launch, we might skip PSN account linking and I’m positive many did simply that with out considering something extra of it. However, if it had been extensively identified that this hyperlink would should be made ultimately, gamers probably would have performed it sooner. Now that they’re being requested to do that months after launch, and will not be capable to play if they do not want to make a PSN account, the scenario is way worse than it could have been.
The change comes into impact on the sixth of May and brings little or no profit to the participant. Helldivers 2 has crossplay, nevertheless it doesn’t have any cross-save performance, so linking these accounts will not let you change between console and PC like many different video games. Instead, this account hyperlink is being billed as a technique to “defend gamers from griefing and abuse”. Essentially, the hyperlink will make banning gamers simpler, though it is not like instruments to try this do not exist already, exterior of PSN.
This traces up with Sony’s new PC technique. Starting with Ghost of Tsushima this month, all PlayStation printed video games on PC will ship with a PSN hyperlink choice, in addition to a PlayStation overlay, just like how Microsoft handles nearly all of its PC video games these days.
KitGuru Says: As I have already got a PSN account that I take advantage of frequently, I linked my accounts at launch. However, many PC gamers have by no means owned a PlayStation or had any motive to make a PSN account, making this an inconvenience, significantly for many who merely do not need to give their data over to Sony to be able to make an account. I actually want Arrowhead had communicated that this was coming sooner.
