Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account

• NodWod@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What am I missing?

  I have just seen that certain countries can’t make an account which is extremely scummy. But most people are just whining about having to make one

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  • Sunny@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Read the comments here and you’ll quickly see why it’s a problem. There are multiple reasons.

    1. Sony will use this for tracking and advertising.
    2. Having a Sony account has proven to be not safe, many times…

    • 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 3. They only included that this was needed in some places, and even there in small print. Which we all now is on purpose and is disgusting corporate behaviour. 4. People who have bought the game and can’t make a PSN account have now lost access to the game they probably paid full price for.

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    • TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Less than 1 day old account. Don’t feed the trolls

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      • Sunny@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        While true, I’m always afraid of it not being a troll and a genuine new user… would be a pretty bad experience for a new person to be called a troll, even though them having a controversial opinion.

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  • CluelessDude@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s really not whining tho? You’ve been able to play without one since the beginning even having an option to skip such a step, I don’t own a PlayStation and don’t intend to I shouldn’t have to make an account for it, it’s that simple, a game shouldn’t be able to lock you out of something you paid for just because they now want to force you to make an account, even more stupid is allowing the game to be sold on countries where you can’t make an PSN account knowing it would be mandatory in the future.

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