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** NoExportForYou: Shortly after the announcement in early May 2024 that a Playstation account would be mandatory for those playing the Steam PC version starting at the end of the month, this version was delisted in countries that do not have access to the Playstation Network, as a PSN account cannot be created by those playing from those countries. While the announcement, and impending requirement, were both later walked back, the game has not been relisted for Steam users in those territories.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The announcement in early May of 2024 that the game would require a Platform/{{PlayStation Network}} account to play even on the PC version, which lacked the requirement beforehand, treating it as optional (though, technically, it was always required, and even stated as such before launch, vut was waived temporarily due to the DemandOverload that quickly ensued). This was met with effectively ''open revolt'' by the playerbase with many pointing out Sony's history of being hacked and having personal information on their accounts stolen and were wary about needing to provide that information to them. Others simply complained about how ridiculous it was to need a [=PlayStation=] account even if you weren't playing it on a [=PlayStation=]. This isn't even for cross-play either, and it was soon discovered after the announcement that Sony [[https://archive.ph/XDd9s had changed the wording]] in their FAQ that previously stated a [=PlayStation=] account was optional. Making things worse is that out of all the countries where Steam is accessible, roughly 60 of these (eg. The Philippines) are among the over 160 countries that '''do not have access to PSN''', and thus players residing in any of these countries and territories ''can't actually make'' PSN accounts, effectively [[NoExportForYou rendering the game unplayable]], losing their hundreds of hours of playtime with it (though it's been claimed that Arrowhead and Sony were going to implement a workaround for this). When desperate players resorted to using a VPN to create a PSN account in response, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZncKrViHU&lc most of them were found out and had their account banned.]] After a truly unprecedented amount of backlash and a Steam review nuke unlike any other (dropping the game's reviews from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed" ''overnight'', and "Mostly Negative" the day after), which in turn attracted massive amounts of bad press not only from the usual social media outlets and gaming news sites but also respected traditional business news outlets like [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2024/05/06/sony-is-making-a-truly-terrible-mistake-with-helldivers-2/?sh=b9792d331c00 Forbes magazine]], [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 Sony announced their decision to completely abandon the planned PSN implementation a few days later,]] to the resounding joy of Helldivers across the globe.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The announcement in early May of 2024 that the game would require a Platform/{{PlayStation Network}} account to play even on the PC version, which lacked the requirement beforehand, treating it as optional (though, optional[[note]]though, technically, it was always required, and even stated as such before launch, vut but was waived temporarily due to the DemandOverload that quickly ensued).ensued[[/note]]. This was met with effectively ''open revolt'' by the playerbase with many pointing out Sony's history of being hacked and having personal information on their accounts stolen and were wary about needing to provide that information to them. Others simply complained about how ridiculous it was to need a [=PlayStation=] account even if you weren't playing it on a [=PlayStation=]. This isn't even for cross-play either, and it was soon discovered after the announcement that Sony [[https://archive.ph/XDd9s had changed the wording]] in their FAQ that previously stated a [=PlayStation=] account was optional. Making things worse is that out of all the countries where Steam is accessible, roughly 60 of these (eg. The Philippines) are among the over 160 countries that '''do not have access to PSN''', and thus players residing in any of these countries and territories ''can't actually make'' PSN accounts, effectively [[NoExportForYou rendering the game unplayable]], losing their hundreds of hours of playtime with it (though it's been claimed that Arrowhead and Sony were going to implement a workaround for this). When desperate players resorted to using a VPN to create a PSN account in response, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZncKrViHU&lc most of them were found out and had their account banned.]] After a truly unprecedented amount of backlash and a Steam review nuke unlike any other (dropping the game's reviews from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed" ''overnight'', and "Mostly Negative" the day after), which in turn attracted massive amounts of bad press not only from the usual social media outlets and gaming news sites but also respected traditional business news outlets like [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2024/05/06/sony-is-making-a-truly-terrible-mistake-with-helldivers-2/?sh=b9792d331c00 Forbes magazine]], [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 Sony announced their decision to completely abandon the planned PSN implementation a few days later,]] to the resounding joy of Helldivers across the globe.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The announcement in early May of 2024 that the game would require a Platform/{{PlayStation Network}} account to play even on the PC version, which lacked the requirement beforehand, treating it as optional. This was met with effectively ''open revolt'' by the playerbase with many pointing out Sony's history of being hacked and having personal information on their accounts stolen and were wary about needing to provide that information to them. Others simply complained about how ridiculous it was to need a [=PlayStation=] account even if you weren't playing it on a [=PlayStation=]. This isn't even for cross-play either, and it was soon discovered after the announcement that Sony [[https://archive.ph/XDd9s had changed the wording]] in their FAQ that previously stated a [=PlayStation=] account was optional. Making things worse is that out of all the countries where Steam is accessible, roughly 60 of these (eg. The Philippines) are among the over 160 countries that '''do not have access to PSN''', and thus players residing in any of these countries and territories ''can't actually make'' PSN accounts, effectively [[NoExportForYou rendering the game unplayable]], losing their hundreds of hours of playtime with it (though it's been claimed that Arrowhead and Sony were going to implement a workaround for this). When desperate players resorted to using a VPN to create a PSN account in response, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZncKrViHU&lc most of them were found out and had their account banned.]] After a truly unprecedented amount of backlash and a Steam review nuke unlike any other (dropping the game's reviews from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed" ''overnight'', and "Mostly Negative" the day after), which in turn attracted massive amounts of bad press not only from the usual social media outlets and gaming news sites but also respected traditional business news outlets like [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2024/05/06/sony-is-making-a-truly-terrible-mistake-with-helldivers-2/?sh=b9792d331c00 Forbes magazine]], [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 Sony announced their decision to completely abandon the planned PSN implementation a few days later,]] to the resounding joy of Helldivers across the globe.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The announcement in early May of 2024 that the game would require a Platform/{{PlayStation Network}} account to play even on the PC version, which lacked the requirement beforehand, treating it as optional.optional (though, technically, it was always required, and even stated as such before launch, vut was waived temporarily due to the DemandOverload that quickly ensued). This was met with effectively ''open revolt'' by the playerbase with many pointing out Sony's history of being hacked and having personal information on their accounts stolen and were wary about needing to provide that information to them. Others simply complained about how ridiculous it was to need a [=PlayStation=] account even if you weren't playing it on a [=PlayStation=]. This isn't even for cross-play either, and it was soon discovered after the announcement that Sony [[https://archive.ph/XDd9s had changed the wording]] in their FAQ that previously stated a [=PlayStation=] account was optional. Making things worse is that out of all the countries where Steam is accessible, roughly 60 of these (eg. The Philippines) are among the over 160 countries that '''do not have access to PSN''', and thus players residing in any of these countries and territories ''can't actually make'' PSN accounts, effectively [[NoExportForYou rendering the game unplayable]], losing their hundreds of hours of playtime with it (though it's been claimed that Arrowhead and Sony were going to implement a workaround for this). When desperate players resorted to using a VPN to create a PSN account in response, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZncKrViHU&lc most of them were found out and had their account banned.]] After a truly unprecedented amount of backlash and a Steam review nuke unlike any other (dropping the game's reviews from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed" ''overnight'', and "Mostly Negative" the day after), which in turn attracted massive amounts of bad press not only from the usual social media outlets and gaming news sites but also respected traditional business news outlets like [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2024/05/06/sony-is-making-a-truly-terrible-mistake-with-helldivers-2/?sh=b9792d331c00 Forbes magazine]], [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 Sony announced their decision to completely abandon the planned PSN implementation a few days later,]] to the resounding joy of Helldivers across the globe.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: It's been stated that the (now walked back) patch which would have forced players to register to the [=PlayStation=] Network in order to keep playing the game even on PC was [[https://archive.ph/gsFh8 mandated by Sony as they own the IP]] and wasn't Arrowhead's decision to do so. LIkewise, the decision to delist the game from Steam in countries that don't have access to PSN, was also by order of Sony.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: It's been stated that the (now walked back) patch which would have forced players to register to the [=PlayStation=] Network in order to keep playing the game even on PC was [[https://archive.ph/gsFh8 mandated by Sony as they own the IP]] and wasn't Arrowhead's decision to do so. LIkewise, Likewise, the decision to delist the game from Steam in countries that don't have access to PSN, was also by order of Sony.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: It's been stated that the (now walked back) patch which would have forced players to register to the [=PlayStation=] Network in order to keep playing the game even on PC was [[https://archive.ph/gsFh8 mandated by Sony as they own the IP]] and wasn't Arrowhead's decision to do so. LIkewise, the decision to delist the game from Steam in countries that don't have access to PSN, was also by order of Sony.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The announcement in early May of 2024 that the game would require a Platform/{{PlayStation Network}} account to play even on the PC version, which lacked the requirement beforehand, treating it as optional. This was met with effectively ''open revolt'' by the playerbase with many pointing out Sony's history of being hacked and having personal information on their accounts stolen and were wary about needing to provide that information to them. Others simply complained about how ridiculous it was to need a [=PlayStation=] account even if you weren't playing it on a [=PlayStation=]. This isn't even for cross-play either, and it was soon discovered after the announcement that Sony [[https://archive.ph/XDd9s had changed the wording]] in their FAQ that previously stated a [=PlayStation=] account was optional. Making things worse is that out of all the countries where Steam is accessible, roughly 60 of these (eg. The Philippines) are among the over 160 countries that '''do not have access to PSN''', and thus players residing in any of these countries and territories ''can't actually make'' PSN accounts, effectively [[NoExportForYou rendering the game unplayable]], losing their hundreds of hours of playtime with it (though arrowhead and sony were going to implement a workaround for this). When desperate players resorted to using a VPN to create a PSN account in response, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZncKrViHU&lc most of them were found out and had their account banned.]] After a truly unprecedented amount of backlash and a Steam review nuke unlike any other (dropping the game's reviews from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed" ''overnight'', and "Mostly Negative" the day after), which in turn attracted massive amounts of bad press not only from the usual social media outlets and gaming news sites but also respected traditional business news outlets like [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2024/05/06/sony-is-making-a-truly-terrible-mistake-with-helldivers-2/?sh=b9792d331c00 Forbes magazine]], [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 Sony announced their decision to completely abandon the planned PSN implementation a few days later,]] to the resounding joy of Helldivers across the globe.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The announcement in early May of 2024 that the game would require a Platform/{{PlayStation Network}} account to play even on the PC version, which lacked the requirement beforehand, treating it as optional. This was met with effectively ''open revolt'' by the playerbase with many pointing out Sony's history of being hacked and having personal information on their accounts stolen and were wary about needing to provide that information to them. Others simply complained about how ridiculous it was to need a [=PlayStation=] account even if you weren't playing it on a [=PlayStation=]. This isn't even for cross-play either, and it was soon discovered after the announcement that Sony [[https://archive.ph/XDd9s had changed the wording]] in their FAQ that previously stated a [=PlayStation=] account was optional. Making things worse is that out of all the countries where Steam is accessible, roughly 60 of these (eg. The Philippines) are among the over 160 countries that '''do not have access to PSN''', and thus players residing in any of these countries and territories ''can't actually make'' PSN accounts, effectively [[NoExportForYou rendering the game unplayable]], losing their hundreds of hours of playtime with it (though arrowhead it's been claimed that Arrowhead and sony Sony were going to implement a workaround for this). When desperate players resorted to using a VPN to create a PSN account in response, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZncKrViHU&lc most of them were found out and had their account banned.]] After a truly unprecedented amount of backlash and a Steam review nuke unlike any other (dropping the game's reviews from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed" ''overnight'', and "Mostly Negative" the day after), which in turn attracted massive amounts of bad press not only from the usual social media outlets and gaming news sites but also respected traditional business news outlets like [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2024/05/06/sony-is-making-a-truly-terrible-mistake-with-helldivers-2/?sh=b9792d331c00 Forbes magazine]], [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 Sony announced their decision to completely abandon the planned PSN implementation a few days later,]] to the resounding joy of Helldivers across the globe.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The announcement in early May of 2024 that the game would require a Platform/{{PlayStation Network}} account to play even on the PC version, which lacked the requirement beforehand, treating it as optional. This was met with effectively ''open revolt'' by the playerbase with many pointing out Sony's history of being hacked and having personal information on their accounts stolen and were wary about needing to provide that information to them. Others simply complained about how ridiculous it was to need a [=PlayStation=] account even if you weren't playing it on a [=PlayStation=]. This isn't even for cross-play either, and it was soon discovered after the announcement that Sony [[https://archive.ph/XDd9s had changed the wording]] in their FAQ that previously stated a [=PlayStation=] account was optional. Making things worse is that out of all the countries where Steam is accessible, roughly 60 of these (eg. The Philippines) are among the over 160 countries that '''do not have access to PSN''', and thus players residing in any of these countries and territories ''can't actually make'' PSN accounts, effectively [[NoExportForYou rendering the game unplayable]], losing their hundreds of hours of playtime with it. When desperate players resorted to using a VPN to create a PSN account in response, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZncKrViHU&lc most of them were found out and had their account banned.]] After a truly unprecedented amount of backlash and a Steam review nuke unlike any other (dropping the game's reviews from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed" ''overnight'', and "Mostly Negative" the day after), which in turn attracted massive amounts of bad press not only from the usual social media outlets and gaming news sites but also respected traditional business news outlets like [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2024/05/06/sony-is-making-a-truly-terrible-mistake-with-helldivers-2/?sh=b9792d331c00 Forbes magazine]], [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 Sony announced their decision to completely abandon the planned PSN implementation a few days later,]] to the resounding joy of Helldivers across the globe.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The announcement in early May of 2024 that the game would require a Platform/{{PlayStation Network}} account to play even on the PC version, which lacked the requirement beforehand, treating it as optional. This was met with effectively ''open revolt'' by the playerbase with many pointing out Sony's history of being hacked and having personal information on their accounts stolen and were wary about needing to provide that information to them. Others simply complained about how ridiculous it was to need a [=PlayStation=] account even if you weren't playing it on a [=PlayStation=]. This isn't even for cross-play either, and it was soon discovered after the announcement that Sony [[https://archive.ph/XDd9s had changed the wording]] in their FAQ that previously stated a [=PlayStation=] account was optional. Making things worse is that out of all the countries where Steam is accessible, roughly 60 of these (eg. The Philippines) are among the over 160 countries that '''do not have access to PSN''', and thus players residing in any of these countries and territories ''can't actually make'' PSN accounts, effectively [[NoExportForYou rendering the game unplayable]], losing their hundreds of hours of playtime with it.it (though arrowhead and sony were going to implement a workaround for this). When desperate players resorted to using a VPN to create a PSN account in response, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZncKrViHU&lc most of them were found out and had their account banned.]] After a truly unprecedented amount of backlash and a Steam review nuke unlike any other (dropping the game's reviews from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed" ''overnight'', and "Mostly Negative" the day after), which in turn attracted massive amounts of bad press not only from the usual social media outlets and gaming news sites but also respected traditional business news outlets like [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2024/05/06/sony-is-making-a-truly-terrible-mistake-with-helldivers-2/?sh=b9792d331c00 Forbes magazine]], [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 Sony announced their decision to completely abandon the planned PSN implementation a few days later,]] to the resounding joy of Helldivers across the globe.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The announcement in early May of 2024 that the game would require a Platform/{{PlayStation Network}} account to play even on the PC version, which lacked the requirement beforehand, treating it as optional. This was met with effectively ''open revolt'' by the playerbase with many pointing out Sony's history of being hacked and having personal information on their accounts stolen and were wary about needing to provide that information to them while [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cjtvcd/sony_entertainment_are_breaking_eu_law/ effectively violating data protection laws for European players.]] Others simply complained about how ridiculous it was to need a [=PlayStation=] account even if you weren't playing it on a [=PlayStation=]. This isn't even for cross-play either, and it was soon discovered after the announcement that Sony [[https://archive.ph/XDd9s had changed the wording]] in their FAQ that previously stated a [=PlayStation=] account was optional. Making things worse is that out of all the countries where Steam is accessible, roughly 60 of these (eg. The Philippines) are among the over 160 countries that '''do not have access to PSN''', and thus players residing in any of these countries and territories ''can't actually make'' PSN accounts, effectively [[NoExportForYou rendering the game unplayable]], losing their hundreds of hours of playtime with it. When desperate players resorted to using a VPN to create a PSN account in response, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZncKrViHU&lc most of them were found out and had their account banned.]] After a truly unprecedented amount of backlash and a Steam review nuke unlike any other (dropping the game's reviews from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed" ''overnight'', and "Mostly Negative" the day after), which in turn attracted massive amounts of bad press not only from the usual social media outlets and gaming news sites but also respected traditional business news outlets like [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2024/05/06/sony-is-making-a-truly-terrible-mistake-with-helldivers-2/?sh=b9792d331c00 Forbes magazine]], [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 Sony announced their decision to completely abandon the planned PSN implementation a few days later,]] to the resounding joy of Helldivers across the globe.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The announcement in early May of 2024 that the game would require a Platform/{{PlayStation Network}} account to play even on the PC version, which lacked the requirement beforehand, treating it as optional. This was met with effectively ''open revolt'' by the playerbase with many pointing out Sony's history of being hacked and having personal information on their accounts stolen and were wary about needing to provide that information to them while [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cjtvcd/sony_entertainment_are_breaking_eu_law/ effectively violating data protection laws for European players.]] them. Others simply complained about how ridiculous it was to need a [=PlayStation=] account even if you weren't playing it on a [=PlayStation=]. This isn't even for cross-play either, and it was soon discovered after the announcement that Sony [[https://archive.ph/XDd9s had changed the wording]] in their FAQ that previously stated a [=PlayStation=] account was optional. Making things worse is that out of all the countries where Steam is accessible, roughly 60 of these (eg. The Philippines) are among the over 160 countries that '''do not have access to PSN''', and thus players residing in any of these countries and territories ''can't actually make'' PSN accounts, effectively [[NoExportForYou rendering the game unplayable]], losing their hundreds of hours of playtime with it. When desperate players resorted to using a VPN to create a PSN account in response, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZncKrViHU&lc most of them were found out and had their account banned.]] After a truly unprecedented amount of backlash and a Steam review nuke unlike any other (dropping the game's reviews from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed" ''overnight'', and "Mostly Negative" the day after), which in turn attracted massive amounts of bad press not only from the usual social media outlets and gaming news sites but also respected traditional business news outlets like [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2024/05/06/sony-is-making-a-truly-terrible-mistake-with-helldivers-2/?sh=b9792d331c00 Forbes magazine]], [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 Sony announced their decision to completely abandon the planned PSN implementation a few days later,]] to the resounding joy of Helldivers across the globe.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The announcement in early May of 2024 that the game would require a Platform/{{PlayStation Network}} account to play even on the PC version, which lacked the requirement beforehand, treating it as optional. This was met with effectively ''open revolt'' by the playerbase with many pointing out Sony's history of being hacked and having personal information on their accounts stolen and were wary about needing to provide that information to them while [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cjtvcd/sony_entertainment_are_breaking_eu_law/ effectively violating data protection laws for European players.]] Others simply complained about how ridiculous it was to need a [=PlayStation=] account even if you weren't playing it on a [=PlayStation=]. This isn't even for cross-play either, and it was soon discovered after the announcement that Sony [[https://archive.ph/XDd9s had changed the wording]] in their FAQ that previously stated a [=PlayStation=] account was optional. Making things worse is that out of all the countries where Steam is accessible, roughly 60 of these (eg. The Philippines) are among the over 160 countries that '''do not have access to PSN''', and thus players residing in any of these countries and territories ''can't actually make'' PSN accounts, effectively [[NoExportForYou rendering the game unplayable]], losing their hundreds of hours of playtime with it. When desperate players resorted to using a VPN to create a PSN account in response, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZncKrViHU&lc most of them were found out and had their account banned.]] After a truly unprecedented amount of backlash and a Steam review nuke unlike any other (dropping the game's reviews from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed" ''overnight'', and "Mostly Negative" the day after), which in turn attracted massive amounts of bad press not only from the usual social media outlets and gaming news sites but respected traditional business news outlets like [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2024/05/06/sony-is-making-a-truly-terrible-mistake-with-helldivers-2/?sh=b9792d331c00 Forbes magazine]], [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 Sony announced their decision to completely abandon the planned PSN implementation a few days later,]] to the resounding joy of Helldivers across the globe.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The announcement in early May of 2024 that the game would require a Platform/{{PlayStation Network}} account to play even on the PC version, which lacked the requirement beforehand, treating it as optional. This was met with effectively ''open revolt'' by the playerbase with many pointing out Sony's history of being hacked and having personal information on their accounts stolen and were wary about needing to provide that information to them while [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cjtvcd/sony_entertainment_are_breaking_eu_law/ effectively violating data protection laws for European players.]] Others simply complained about how ridiculous it was to need a [=PlayStation=] account even if you weren't playing it on a [=PlayStation=]. This isn't even for cross-play either, and it was soon discovered after the announcement that Sony [[https://archive.ph/XDd9s had changed the wording]] in their FAQ that previously stated a [=PlayStation=] account was optional. Making things worse is that out of all the countries where Steam is accessible, roughly 60 of these (eg. The Philippines) are among the over 160 countries that '''do not have access to PSN''', and thus players residing in any of these countries and territories ''can't actually make'' PSN accounts, effectively [[NoExportForYou rendering the game unplayable]], losing their hundreds of hours of playtime with it. When desperate players resorted to using a VPN to create a PSN account in response, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZncKrViHU&lc most of them were found out and had their account banned.]] After a truly unprecedented amount of backlash and a Steam review nuke unlike any other (dropping the game's reviews from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed" ''overnight'', and "Mostly Negative" the day after), which in turn attracted massive amounts of bad press not only from the usual social media outlets and gaming news sites but also respected traditional business news outlets like [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2024/05/06/sony-is-making-a-truly-terrible-mistake-with-helldivers-2/?sh=b9792d331c00 Forbes magazine]], [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 Sony announced their decision to completely abandon the planned PSN implementation a few days later,]] to the resounding joy of Helldivers across the globe.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The announcement in early May of 2024 that the game would require a Platform/{{PlayStation Network}} account to play even on the PC version, which lacked the requirement beforehand, treating it as optional. This was met with effectively ''open revolt'' by the playerbase with many pointing out Sony's history of being hacked and having personal information on their accounts stolen and were wary about needing to provide that information to them while [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cjtvcd/sony_entertainment_are_breaking_eu_law/ effectively violating data protection laws for European players.]] Others simply complained about how ridiculous it was to need a [=PlayStation=] account even if you weren't playing it on a [=PlayStation=]. This isn't even for cross-play either, and it was soon discovered after the announcement that Sony [[https://archive.ph/XDd9s had changed the wording]] in their FAQ that previously stated a [=PlayStation=] account was optional. Making things worse is that out of all the countries where Steam is accessible, roughly 60 of these (eg. The Philippines) are among the over 160 countries that '''do not have access to PSN''', and thus players residing in any of these countries and territories ''can't actually make'' PSN accounts, effectively [[NoExportForYou rendering the game unplayable]], losing their hundreds of hours of playtime with it. When desperate players resorted to using a VPN to create a PSN account in response, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZncKrViHU&lc most of them were found out and had their account banned.]] After a truly unprecedented amount of backlash and a Steam review nuke unlike any other (dropping the game's reviews from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed" ''overnight'', and "Mostly Negative" the day after), [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 Sony announced their decision to completely abandon the planned PSN implementation a few days later,]] to the resounding joy of Helldivers across the globe.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The announcement in early May of 2024 that the game would require a Platform/{{PlayStation Network}} account to play even on the PC version, which lacked the requirement beforehand, treating it as optional. This was met with effectively ''open revolt'' by the playerbase with many pointing out Sony's history of being hacked and having personal information on their accounts stolen and were wary about needing to provide that information to them while [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cjtvcd/sony_entertainment_are_breaking_eu_law/ effectively violating data protection laws for European players.]] Others simply complained about how ridiculous it was to need a [=PlayStation=] account even if you weren't playing it on a [=PlayStation=]. This isn't even for cross-play either, and it was soon discovered after the announcement that Sony [[https://archive.ph/XDd9s had changed the wording]] in their FAQ that previously stated a [=PlayStation=] account was optional. Making things worse is that out of all the countries where Steam is accessible, roughly 60 of these (eg. The Philippines) are among the over 160 countries that '''do not have access to PSN''', and thus players residing in any of these countries and territories ''can't actually make'' PSN accounts, effectively [[NoExportForYou rendering the game unplayable]], losing their hundreds of hours of playtime with it. When desperate players resorted to using a VPN to create a PSN account in response, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZncKrViHU&lc most of them were found out and had their account banned.]] After a truly unprecedented amount of backlash and a Steam review nuke unlike any other (dropping the game's reviews from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed" ''overnight'', and "Mostly Negative" the day after), which in turn attracted massive amounts of bad press not only from the usual social media outlets and gaming news sites but respected traditional business news outlets like [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2024/05/06/sony-is-making-a-truly-terrible-mistake-with-helldivers-2/?sh=b9792d331c00 Forbes magazine]], [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 Sony announced their decision to completely abandon the planned PSN implementation a few days later,]] to the resounding joy of Helldivers across the globe.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The announcement in early May of 2024 that the game would require a Platform/{{PlayStation Network}} account to play even on the PC version, which lacked the requirement beforehand, treating it as optional. This was met with effectively ''open revolt'' by the playerbase with many pointing out Sony's history of being hacked and having personal information on their accounts stolen and were wary about needing to provide that information to them while [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cjtvcd/sony_entertainment_are_breaking_eu_law/ effectively violating data protection laws for European players.]] Others simply complained about how ridiculous it was to need a [=PlayStation=] account even if you weren't playing it on a [=PlayStation=]. This isn't even for cross-play either, and it was soon discovered after the announcement that Sony [[https://archive.ph/XDd9s had changed the wording]] in their FAQ that previously stated a [=PlayStation=] account was optional. Making things worse is that out of all the countries where Steam is accessible, roughly 60 of these (eg. The Philippines) are among the over 160 countries that '''do not have access to PSN''', and thus players residing in any of these countries and territories ''can't actually make'' PSN accounts, effectively [[NoExportForYou rendering the game unplayable]], losing their hundreds of hours of playtime with it. When desperate players resorted to using a VPN to create a PSN account in response, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZncKrViHU&lc most of them were found out and had their account banned.]] After a truly unprecedented amount of backlash and a Steam review nuke unlike any other (dropping the game's reviews from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed" ''overnight''), [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 Sony announced their decision to completely abandon the planned PSN implementation a few days later,]] to the resounding joy of Helldivers across the globe.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The announcement in early May of 2024 that the game would require a Platform/{{PlayStation Network}} account to play even on the PC version, which lacked the requirement beforehand, treating it as optional. This was met with effectively ''open revolt'' by the playerbase with many pointing out Sony's history of being hacked and having personal information on their accounts stolen and were wary about needing to provide that information to them while [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cjtvcd/sony_entertainment_are_breaking_eu_law/ effectively violating data protection laws for European players.]] Others simply complained about how ridiculous it was to need a [=PlayStation=] account even if you weren't playing it on a [=PlayStation=]. This isn't even for cross-play either, and it was soon discovered after the announcement that Sony [[https://archive.ph/XDd9s had changed the wording]] in their FAQ that previously stated a [=PlayStation=] account was optional. Making things worse is that out of all the countries where Steam is accessible, roughly 60 of these (eg. The Philippines) are among the over 160 countries that '''do not have access to PSN''', and thus players residing in any of these countries and territories ''can't actually make'' PSN accounts, effectively [[NoExportForYou rendering the game unplayable]], losing their hundreds of hours of playtime with it. When desperate players resorted to using a VPN to create a PSN account in response, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZncKrViHU&lc most of them were found out and had their account banned.]] After a truly unprecedented amount of backlash and a Steam review nuke unlike any other (dropping the game's reviews from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed" ''overnight''), ''overnight'', and "Mostly Negative" the day after), [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 Sony announced their decision to completely abandon the planned PSN implementation a few days later,]] to the resounding joy of Helldivers across the globe.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The announcement in early May of 2024 that the game would require a Platform/PlayStationNetwork account to play even on the PC version, which lacked the requirement beforehand, treating it as optional. This was met with effectively ''open revolt'' by the playerbase with many pointing out Sony's history of being hacked and having personal information on their accounts stolen and were wary about needing to provide that information to them while [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cjtvcd/sony_entertainment_are_breaking_eu_law/ effectively violating data protection laws for European players.]] Others simply complained about how ridiculous it was to need a [=PlayStation=] account even if you weren't playing it on a [=PlayStation=]. This isn't even for cross-play either, and it was soon discovered after the announcement that Sony [[https://archive.ph/XDd9s had changed the wording]] in their FAQ that previously stated a [=PlayStation=] account was optional. Making things worse is that out of all the countries where Steam is accessible, roughly 60 of these (eg. The Philippines) are among the over 160 countries that '''do not have access to PSN''', and thus players residing in any of these countries and territories ''can't actually make'' PSN accounts, effectively [[NoExportForYou rendering the game unplayable]], losing their hundreds of hours of playtime with it. When desperate players resorted to using a VPN to create a PSN account in response, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZncKrViHU&lc most of them were found out and had their account banned.]] After a truly unprecedented amount of backlash and a Steam review nuke unlike any other (dropping the game's reviews from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed" ''overnight''), [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 Sony announced their decision to completely abandon the planned PSN implementation a few days later,]] to the resounding joy of Helldivers across the globe.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The announcement in early May of 2024 that the game would require a Platform/PlayStationNetwork Platform/{{PlayStation Network}} account to play even on the PC version, which lacked the requirement beforehand, treating it as optional. This was met with effectively ''open revolt'' by the playerbase with many pointing out Sony's history of being hacked and having personal information on their accounts stolen and were wary about needing to provide that information to them while [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cjtvcd/sony_entertainment_are_breaking_eu_law/ effectively violating data protection laws for European players.]] Others simply complained about how ridiculous it was to need a [=PlayStation=] account even if you weren't playing it on a [=PlayStation=]. This isn't even for cross-play either, and it was soon discovered after the announcement that Sony [[https://archive.ph/XDd9s had changed the wording]] in their FAQ that previously stated a [=PlayStation=] account was optional. Making things worse is that out of all the countries where Steam is accessible, roughly 60 of these (eg. The Philippines) are among the over 160 countries that '''do not have access to PSN''', and thus players residing in any of these countries and territories ''can't actually make'' PSN accounts, effectively [[NoExportForYou rendering the game unplayable]], losing their hundreds of hours of playtime with it. When desperate players resorted to using a VPN to create a PSN account in response, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZncKrViHU&lc most of them were found out and had their account banned.]] After a truly unprecedented amount of backlash and a Steam review nuke unlike any other (dropping the game's reviews from "Overwhelmingly Positive" to "Mixed" ''overnight''), [[https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 Sony announced their decision to completely abandon the planned PSN implementation a few days later,]] to the resounding joy of Helldivers across the globe.
