Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: JAB Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Helldivers 2 to require Playstation subscription even bought on Steam for PC. Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 09:58:01 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 10:58:04 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="49dc3c4f7ad8176e9b0a7068a26ac1d5"; logging-data="1870546"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+WowkjnhpNG6Okv3gnRp8R" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:qTAo5j7wtinHNrjcRD62nXTkD3c= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 3099 On 04/05/2024 14:34, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > On Sat, 4 May 2024 09:09:18 +0100, JAB wrote: > >> On 03/05/2024 19:43, Justisaur wrote: >>> Helldivers 2 was looking like a pretty good squad Co-op game, I was >>> somewhat interested, but so many things to play, not enough time.  It >>> won't affect me if I were to play it, but there's regions where it was >>> sold that the PSN isn't available. >> >> The part I don't like about it is it being done respectively*, so not >> giving customers the option to choose before they decided to buy it. >> That's just a bit scummy. > >> *My understanding is that's technically not true but the statement >> saying this was going to happen wasn't made particularly clear upfront. > > > I assume you mean retroactively. There's no respect here from Sony. > Yep. > They saw their game was popular, and decided to try and leverage that > popularity into getting their network a bigger marketshare. It's all > about what is good for Sony; it has nothing to do with benefitting the > customers. > It certainly feels that they were always going to do it but didn't want to at launch in case of any lost sales. That is a bit scummy because if the reasoning they are using as to why it's being activated now is true then why didn't they have it a launch. > I'd love it if Valve started offering all Helldiver 2 players the > ability to return/refund the game, no matter how long it has been > since they purchased it, since this seems a fairly significant change > to the requirements box. > Tricky one as it's still fit for purpose (as long as you can continue to play it in your region) just not quite what a buyer may have wanted. If it was me, I'd be really peeded off as I try and avoid any additional game launchers. That's why I still haven't got anything from the Epic store, oh and who owns it doesn't help. It's not fair you have a monopoly as I want it.