The developer of Helldivers 2 has apologised after followers barraged the sport’s Steam web page with detrimental evaluations over information of a compulsory PlayStation Account requirement.
On Friday, writer Sony introduced that, from Could 30, the Steam model of Helldivers would require all gamers to sign up with a PlayStation Community account.
This requirement was briefly current when Helldivers 2 launched, but it surely was eliminated after the sport’s large early success led to technical points.
Many PC gamers, notably these in nations the place the service just isn’t obtainable, are clearly not proud of the return of the PSN requirement.
On the time of publication, Helldivers 2 has been hit with over 100,000 detrimental evaluations on Steam in lower than 48 hours, based on Steamdb, which accounts for a 3rd of all of its person evaluations to this point.
The overview bombing triggered a response from developer Arrowhead, whose CEO Johan Pilestedt apologised on X.
“Ouch, proper within the overview rating,” he wrote. “Effectively, I suppose it’s warranted. Sorry everybody for a way this all transpired. I hope we’ll make it up and regain the belief by offering a continued nice sport expertise. I simply wish to make nice video games!”
Saying the return of obligatory PSN account linking on Friday, Sony claimed the transfer was designed to guard gamers.
“Account linking performs a vital function in defending our gamers and upholding the values of security and safety supplied on PlayStation and PlayStation Studios video games,” it stated.
“That is our predominant technique to shield gamers from griefing and abuse by enabling the banning of gamers that have interaction in that kind of behaviour. It additionally permits these gamers which have been banned the suitable to attraction.”
In response to analysis agency Circana, which this week printed its US video games trade gross sales report for March, Helldivers 2 already ranks seventh in lifetime US greenback gross sales for Sony printed video games after simply two months of availability.
