Helldivers II
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Hekotat
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Kirun
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Because it's annoying. Fuck 'em.
I'm glad gamers are finally standing up to bullshit annoyances that exist for no reason and a bunch of dick eaters come in to white knight corpos - "OMG GUYS! IT'S NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL. Just eat the dick!".
Nah, fam. Enjoy eating corporate dick. Not even a free skin for linking, nothing. Just another annoying hoop to jump through because of greed. Eat my ass.
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Szlia
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The game ended up being a huge hit, but when Sony put the money on the table for the game to get made, it was certainly not a foregone conclusion. It's not exactly surprising that they contractually demanded things that could extract the most value out the project, like having to link a PSN account.
Something to note also is that, from a logistical point of view, a multiplayer game means you need to have systems to handle people who cheat or break the conduct and language policies. It's not absurd that this part is handled by Sony since they have such systems in place for other games and hence is not absurd that it requires players to have PSN accounts.
Something to note also is that, from a logistical point of view, a multiplayer game means you need to have systems to handle people who cheat or break the conduct and language policies. It's not absurd that this part is handled by Sony since they have such systems in place for other games and hence is not absurd that it requires players to have PSN accounts.
pysek
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From one of the most recent Steam reviews:
April 2011: Hackers Access Personal Data of 77 Million Sony PlayStation Network Users
May 2011: Personal Details on 25 Million Sony Online Entertainment Customers Stolen
June 2011: Sony Pictures Website Hacked, Exposing One Million Accounts
November 2014: Hackers Steal 100 Terabytes of Data from Sony Pictures
August 2017: Hacker Group Accesses Sony Social Media Accounts
September 2023: Sony Investigates Alleged Hack
October 2023: Sony Notifies Employees of Data Breach
April 2011: Hackers Access Personal Data of 77 Million Sony PlayStation Network Users
May 2011: Personal Details on 25 Million Sony Online Entertainment Customers Stolen
June 2011: Sony Pictures Website Hacked, Exposing One Million Accounts
November 2014: Hackers Steal 100 Terabytes of Data from Sony Pictures
August 2017: Hacker Group Accesses Sony Social Media Accounts
September 2023: Sony Investigates Alleged Hack
October 2023: Sony Notifies Employees of Data Breach
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Gavinmad
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Palum
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Oh wow an incompetent person with a trans flag who could have guessed
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Szlia
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Maybe you do not realize that PirateSoftware alone reaches several hundred of thousands of people.
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moonarchia
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The PSN TOS is a hell no for me. They up front tell you they will ban you for using vulgarity even just among your friends. Sony in particular has a long history of shady shit going back 30 years that I remember offhand, probably more.
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Kirun
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Lol their fucking patches and QA is completely dog shit. You expect their CMs to have a fucking clue on what they're doing?
Gavinmad
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Maybe you do not realize that not everyone is an emasculated Euro soyjak who does whatever a streamer tells them.
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Ragosh
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You surely mean emasculated American soyjak, right. The keys are like right next to each other. I get it. Happens to the best of us.
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Sinistkir13
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Watching all of this blow up in the last couple of days has been entertaining on its own because it's refreshing to see people push back every now and again.
I was thinking of picking this game up at some point, but I'd rather see how all of this plays out. The overboard DRM already had me wary, and frankly if their going excuse for mandatory accounts is over "safety and security," then at the very least it should be one or the other.
From the little bits that I had already seen, it seemed like the developers just wanted to make a fun game and didn't want any of this bullshit, but Sony had to pull a Sony at their expense.
Also scrolling through that place, they seem to have gone through the effort of making translations for countries that don't support PSN:
Now we have the more current situation where their Californification has taken hold, so in addition to having null data security, they're certainly not to be trusted in respect to anything where they can act as cyber-nannies in charge of your purchases.
I was thinking of picking this game up at some point, but I'd rather see how all of this plays out. The overboard DRM already had me wary, and frankly if their going excuse for mandatory accounts is over "safety and security," then at the very least it should be one or the other.
From the little bits that I had already seen, it seemed like the developers just wanted to make a fun game and didn't want any of this bullshit, but Sony had to pull a Sony at their expense.
There's an archive link in there as well, which further proves how necessary it is to keep backups on what these corporations say.
Also scrolling through that place, they seem to have gone through the effort of making translations for countries that don't support PSN:
Very true, it's good to remember how they were behind SecuRom and installing rootkits way back when.
Now we have the more current situation where their Californification has taken hold, so in addition to having null data security, they're certainly not to be trusted in respect to anything where they can act as cyber-nannies in charge of your purchases.
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