The Galactic War rages on in Helldivers 2 with no end in sight, but some players are beginning to question if its all meaningless.
Arrowhead Game Studios writes: "Attention Helldivers, Due to technical issues at the launch of HELLDIVERS 2, we allowed the linking requirements for Steam accounts to a PlayStation Network account to be temporarily optional. That grace period will now expire. See details below in this post. Account linking plays a critical role in protecting our players and upholding the values of safety and security provided on PlayStation and PlayStation Studios games."
"protecting our players and upholding the values of safety and security provided on PlayStation and PlayStation Studios games."
So everyone was playing without values and safety? The ... cornerstones of Democracy? 😧
It seems pretty harmless... i mean who doesnt have a PSN account now given how popular the PS4 was, and how many play on both PC & console? I get that there are some PC users who may only play on PC but there are other PC games that require certain accounts in order to play. EA Origin, Ubisoft, MS Bethesda...
There are regions where people have to create PSN accounts in different regions and with different addresses to do this, which is technically against PSN TOS. It's just weird.
I do agree that it has become pretty common, including EA, Ubisoft, and more having similar requirements. But it is still annoying.
Annoying... yeah I understand that. These are the hoops we jump through in order to be entertained.
Not harmless to the players in many countries all over the planet but sure...so long as gamers like you are happy then all good, I guess.
Values and safety??? When was the last time PSN got hacked???
We all know that this is to inflate PSN user numbers.
Oh no, that thing all online game make you do… clearly the game will be unanimously boycotted.
Auspicious day all Helldivers out there. Small patch rolling out before the weekend!
Overview For this patch, we have addressed some crashes as well as performance improvements following the decline from the last patch.
New data has reported that Helldivers 2 is the best selling game of 2024 so far, beating out titles including Dragon's Dogma 2.
At the comments...i will fellow soldiers, i will. Just let me finish my backlog of games.
This is why many will start going GaaS. You see things like FF7 Rebirth selling below expectations but a GaaS game sells insane amounts. Incoming industry spam now.
A good game is a good game. GaaS will only become a problem if mediocrity dominates. Which is highly likely, 😂
True and I’m not trying to take away that HD2 might be a good game, it’s more that I loathe this direction for gaming. GaaS good or not, it’s still GaaS and this industry is hurting for ROI, which is why GaaS exists in the first place. Could HD2 been the game it is without being the GaaS model? Why choose GaaS over a traditional game model?
That’s my point from my comment.
Whats incredibly ironic is that absolute storm of anti Sony GaaS articles earlier in the year... and then their first GaaS release is the biggest selling game of the year. None of the complaints even allowed for the possibility of a game selling simply because its good (you know, the most important thing).
And imagine Sony's confusion when they read all the hate about their plans, only to get straight up run over by a horde of people throwing money in their face.
The gaming media in particular have been engaging in a social engineering experiment where they decide what games are gonna fail and which are gonna succeed. The façade is falling apart at the seems though as it becomes incredibly apparent that they don't represent the people they are trying to influence.
Oh dude, I know. I get that people like it, but it’s still GaaS, it has micros, it has battle passes. In my eyes, I always question why make it GaaS if it could be a traditional game instead… the answer is always unsatisfying
It’s even more hypocritical whenever people bring up micros and whatnot in a GaaS game people like and the response is, “You don’t need to buy them!”
Then I see Dragons Dogma 2 with micros that you absolutely don’t need to buy, but the response is, “This is unacceptable and f*ck Capcom, canceling my order!”
I’m just like, wait a minute, but you just said a while back that…
and that's why studios including son's camp are investing in games as a service.
The reason why I wasn't worried about them going live service is the have a pedigree of releasing good games. For the longest time, people have rightly pointed out that Sony was serious lacking in the multiplayer category. We never said they should switch up completely. All we wanted was them to expand their sights into the genre.
Really impressive for what i would say is a AA game. Only shows that it isnt only about the budget of game that matters.
Yes and no. They clearly got a lot of help from Sony (as per the credits) and I don't believe that a true independent AA project would have access to all of that. Or at least not at the quality. For example, Sony produced all the music and cutscenes and advertising for them. Sony also fronted the development cost, provided the IP and let them develop it for 7 years!
So while the title is comfortably AA, Arrowhead got a lot of help that a completely independent AA studio would not have access to.
Looking at how this and Stellar Blade turned out though, I definitely agree that less can be more. And honestly AA has been kicking AAA's ass for quite some time now lol.
This article is meaningless.