Mr Moose
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Totoki on the phone to Arrowhead boss: お前はもう死んでいる.
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Helldivers 2 Account Linking Reversal
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Laptop1991
Member
Yeah your right, i completely agree and i have experience of WHO myself and my daughter, it should happen with all over the top control and predatory actions and practices.
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FunkMiller
Gold Member
Do you really think 'Sony is only as bad as the rest of these bastards' is the solid argument you seem to think it is?
If anything, hopefully this will lead to more backlash against all those rapacious cunts as well. Though I won't hold my breath.
The corporations don't love you. They are all the same.
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LordCBH
Member
No, actually. I would legitimately prefer these other shitty companies roll over too.
Unknown?
Member
It won't. PC gamers did nothing about the horse armor when it started.
Laptop1991
Member
Yes we did, we modded it in for free instead of buying it, i did it myself.
Kacho
Member
Console gamers have that power too. They stopped doubling of xbox live prices and kept the PS3/Vita store open. Console gamers haven't refunded games to avoid account registration on star wars, Sea of theives, Cod, etc yet. Maybe they should, though if we're being honest PC users didn't really stop that either.Console gamers after PC gamers get what they want.
Sorcerer
Member
I wonder if Sony had owned Arrowhead if they would have not reversed the decision? I understand the community plays a huge part in the reversal but I wonder if they also felt they needed to stay in Arrowhead's good graces for the future?
Things are certainly changing. Companies would never back down in the past. First the Tomb Raider reversal and now this. The future is starting to look a little brighter just when I thought it was getting a lot more dim.
Things are certainly changing. Companies would never back down in the past. First the Tomb Raider reversal and now this. The future is starting to look a little brighter just when I thought it was getting a lot more dim.
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Bumblebeetuna
Member
Wow, didn’t expect Sony to bend the knee. Some of the apologists from the other threads must feel extra silly right now 
Bojji
Member
Rockstar and Ubisoft are the worst of them.
I lost access to GTA5 on EGS because someone stole my R account and changed email address for it, luckily I was able to regain it with R support but why this shit is even needed when I have license for this game on EGS?
I have AC2, ACB and ACR on Steam and I can't play them because I don't fucking remember what account I used for them in 2011... (maybe it's even deleted now).
Thanks to pirates I can play some of my games again, lol.
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Senua
Gold Member
They always do
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Boiled frog syndrome.
Now we've reached a point where the overwhelming greed is so fucking obvious, predatory and anti-consumer that with any luck this debacle will at least set some kind of precedent moving forward.
Senua
Gold Member
Topher
Gold Member
I'd say mass refunds had a pretty big part to play.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Mass refund, mass social media ridicule.
Optics are pretty important to these big publishers.
lifa-cobex
Member
Neither did console gamers.
Arguably that's worse. At least PC gamers can ignore it and mod around it for free.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
It is absolutely a legitimate concern to object to being forced into signing up for a service account that is blatantly unnecessary, and provides no benefit to the consumer whatsoever.
You may be upset because Sony were on the receiving end this time around, but maybe it'll be another company next time, and you'll see the benefits of consumer action working against major corporations.
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lifa-cobex
Member
I think the main one being costumers being locked out of a purchase.
Sony couldn't get around that at all. They fucked up.
Roman Empire
Member
I did my part. Reviewed it negatively on both Steam and PSN. Even if I can link my account, I don't think it was the right move by Sony to implement it in a mandatory fashion post-launch, despite the Steam page clearly stating that a 3rd-party account link was required to play HD2. If they didn't want any backlash Sony should have made it mandatory day-1. Simple as that.
Now I'm more curious about the situation of all those countries that are not PSN-supported that had the game removed from Steam.
Will Sony offer refunds to those who bought the game in said regions, or, will they just backpedal to the old status quo before this situation came to be?
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AJUMP23
Gold Member
Those steam refunds must have been brutal.
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
It wasn't a big deal.
But kudos to Sony for giving the whiny-ass bitches their day in the sun. Sony continues to demonstrate their customer focus. And whiny bitch PC gamers get to save 4 minutes of their seemingly precious time signing up for a PSN account (even though they probably spent more time bitching online than it would have taken them to sign up for an account).
Senua
Gold Member
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
Go ahead and have a wank offline.
You don't need my permission and you certainly don't need to announce it.
Some of you guys are weird, man.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
MayauMiao
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Bulletbrain
Member
Is this level of corporate boot licking even legal? Just a sorry sight all around.
Buggy Loop
Member
Unknown?
Member
Yeah and that was a piss poor decision. Should have refunded the game and/or stopped buying it but Oblivion was biggest on PC so PC gamers had more of a say.
ComputerBlue
Member
Sony usually doubles down when it comes to stuff like this when it’s on their own platform, because a huge majority of idiot fanboys defend it or say it’s no big deal. This is what happens when you’re going after a player based that isn’t solely your own and brainwashed. Good for PC players.
Herbspiceguy
Member
Actually, the disingenious discourse downplaying the issue with invalid comparisons and downright insults to a gaming community that stood up against anti-consumer bullshit, coming from ardent fanboys has been 'weird' to say the least.
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mansoor1980
Gold Member
ungrateful PCMR
sony should stop all ports to PC
sony should stop all ports to PC
Buggy Loop
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Offline Single player game requirements:
The same people "fighting account registration because they aint no shit eating bootlickers" :
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aliadiere25
Member
That's why PlayStation is the goat.... they always listen to the fans.
tommib
Member
Now this is what we need in this war.
Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
It'll be back. Don't you worry
lifa-cobex
Member
No, no, no
That's not how it works.
PC gamers get to have our cake and eat it to.
Pc gamers moded around it. That was our way of giving Bethesda the finger.
The base game itself was fine. Had no reason to boycott it.
The problem was the DLC. Hence the mod.
Fire with fire.
Buggy Loop
Member
Offline Single player game requirements:
The same people "fighting account registration because they aint no shit eating bootlickers" :
The terms were clear from day 1. Anyone not agreeing to this can just skip. Those who don't care can buy.
Changing terms months later is a dick move. Do you not agree bootlicker?
I'm so glad you're back. I almost spit my coffee.
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So were HD2 from day one but whatever. Have fun.
rofif
Banned
Eat a foot
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Doesn't matter if the deal was big or small.
Sony tried to force their data collecting shit on a game that works without PSN. People complained, loudly, and Sony had to pull back.
Does it make those who complained "whiny-ass bitches"? No, they are just consumers with common sense and a bit of self-respect. You don't have to bend over everytime a company tells you to do so.