PlayStation has delivered a U-turn and scrapped its plans to require Helldivers 2 gamers on Steam to check in with a PlayStation Community account.
The requirement was current when the sport initially launched, however after its surprising early success led to extreme technical points, it was briefly eliminated.
Final week Sony acknowledged that the requirement could be returning on Might 30, and that each one gamers would want to have linked their Steam and PlayStation Community account by June 4.
The information was met with enormous backlash from gamers, and the sport was hit with over 100,000 detrimental opinions on Steam in lower than 48 hours.
The negativity continued over the weekend when the sport was pulled from over 150 international locations on Steam, as a result of them not gaining access to the PlayStation Community.
Nevertheless, in a brand new tweet posted by the official PlayStation account on X, the corporate has acknowledged its error and mentioned it’s scrapped the plans to require a PSN account for the Steam model of the sport.
“Helldivers followers – we’ve heard your suggestions on the Helldivers 2 account linking replace,” it wrote. “The Might 6 replace, which might have required Steam and PlayStation Community account linking for brand spanking new gamers and for present gamers starting Might 30, is not going to be transferring ahead.
“We’re nonetheless studying what’s greatest for PC gamers and your suggestions has been invaluable. Thanks once more to your continued help of Helldivers 2 and we’ll maintain you up to date on future plans.”
The information was met with reduction by Johan Pilestedt, the CEO of Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead, who thanked the followers for forcing the change and PlayStation for relenting.
“Firstly, I’m impressed by the willpower of the Helldivers 2 group and your capacity to collaborate,” he wrote on X.
“Secondly I need to thank our companions and mates at PlayStation for rapidly and successfully making the choice to go away PSN linking non-obligatory. We collectively need to set a brand new customary for what a reside recreation is, and the way builders and group can help one another to create the very best recreation experiences.”
The change already seems to be making an impression on Steam, the place person opinions have began to develop into extra optimistic once more.
Whereas person opinions had been 95% detrimental on Friday, 96% detrimental on Saturday and 98% detrimental on Sunday, to date the opinions at this time are much more balanced – of the 28,000 opinions submitted at this time, solely 52% are detrimental.
On the time of writing the sport remains to be unavailable on the greater than 150 international locations it was pulled from on Steam, however it seems that entry might be restored to these areas within the close to future.
