Helldivers 2 Won’t Require A PSN Account On Steam After Massive Player Backlash
This reverse on account linking follows a horrible time for Arrowhead’s devs and community managers, who were forced to manage a massive digital war across Twitter, Reddit, and Discord. The CEO of Arrowhead spent most of the weekend apologizing on Twitter and talking to angry fans.
If Helldivers 2 is popular enough to take over whole towns, then the number of angry comments these developers received is in the thousands. Some people bought the game on Steam in countries where they can’t open an account with PlayStation Network (PSN), which means this forced update would rob them of a favorite game and $50 - since Steam does not refund games that were played for more than 48 hours.
It’s a sweet victory for the players; I just hope the game developers, who have been phenomenal, will be able to recover from all the negative reviews.