Review bombing Helldivers 2: Sony puts out the fire and cancels the mandatory linking of Steam and PSN accounts – News

The message published this morning on moderation and player safety. “ We're still learning what's best for PC gamers and your feedback has been very valuable to us. Thanks again for your continued support of Helldivers 2 and we will keep you posted on our future projects “, we can read.

These few words from the manufacturer leave several questions unanswered. In particular, we do not know if it was he who decided to withdraw the Steam version of Helldiverse 2 in the many countries where PlayStation Network is not officially supported. We also do not know how Sony intends to remedy this issue for its future multiplayer games, games which will certainly take care to require the famous account linking from day one. This must also have been the case for Helldiverse 2but Arrowhead had made the decision to make this operation optional since it did not work at launch due to server load and simply prevented you from playing.

“ When the servers blew up at launch, some quick decisions had to be made, like disabling account linking and galactic war stats to take some pressure off the servers. We couldn't reactivate them due to the risk of another server explosion (and remember the negative reactions to this). And now, finally, the requirement to re-enable account linking came from PlayStation (to help with moderation) – and we had to comply even though there were fears of backlash “, explain the CEO of Arrowhead.

At the time of publication of the PlayStation tweet, Helldiverse 2 was overwhelmed by an onslaught of 216,495 negative reviews received since the announcement on Friday, May 3. In total, positive evaluations, which were over 80% before the weekend, have fallen to 43% since. On the game's Discord server, many players are calling for a positive review, but the weekend will obviously leave some ugly marks.