Sean @ FG: As the percentage of digital game sales compared to boxed products grows across the board, Sean takes a look at the positives and negatives of “ditching the disk”.
Originally developed by Starbreeze Studios and released in 2013, this modern remake from Italian developer Avantgarden S.r.l. switches from Unreal Engine 3 to Unreal Engine 5 – adding a high-fidelity, 4K lick of paint to a timeless classic that still packs an emotional punch over a decade later.
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PlayStation tweets: "Helldivers fans -- we’ve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update. The May 6 update, which would have required Steam and PlayStation Network account linking for new players and for current players beginning May 30, will not be moving forward.
We’re still learning what is best for PC players and your feedback has been invaluable. Thanks again for your continued support of Helldivers 2 and we’ll keep you updated on future plans."
Now, will gamers take all this fervor and aim it at the likes of EA, Ubisoft, Take2, and others who have way more invasive and problem-causing apps for Steam games?
Sony is like a whipping boy for the industry and it's just lame at this point. This is like my Activision account I use for Call of Duty. I'm not a 'fan'' of Activision but it's free and it comes in handy. The PSN account would come handy if they decide to do cross saves and I'm sure some other stuff too. I have an account for practically everything, including this site. I need a Microsoft account to play some PS5 games. No one has been able to explain what the big problem with a PSN account was.
They dont want one because they cant trust them with all the times Sony got hacked which makes no sense cause steam got hacked so does everythinv else in this world. Been with playstation and i never had a problem security wise. PlayStation doesnt hold SSN and you dont have to put you credit card on it either. Pc users just wanna cry, its a PlayStation game they should be happy Sony putting games on pc to begin with. Also funny they dont trust Sony but yet would play there games when on pc.
Yes, people have explained the problem with a PSN account...there has been 15 million articles on it and surely you read a few and saw some comments...it is because PSN is not supported in a lot of countries meaning people in those countries can't create a PSN account and therefore would be unable to play the game at all.
On PS5 even crossplay doesn’t work with all PC accounts. I have plenty of PC friends where the invites never go through and theirs aren’t received. Crossplay without a unified account system is always a nightmare, none of us should be punching in friend codes in 2024.
They shouldn’t have tried to change this post launch but they should have had it in on day 1.
@redknight80. If the main complaint is that people in over 150 countries cannot create PSN accounts then Sony needs to get its programming/logistics/legal team to make it available. If that happens, the next time Sony releases a multiplayer game on Steam with a PSN account requirement would this stop a repeat of this backlash?
Did they sell you CoD initially without needing an Activision account, and then locked you out of it because you could not get an Activision account where you lived?
smfh
Christopher with all I do respect, your bias is showing heavily, be positive, congratulate people and ask for them to do more, no need for this passive aggressive bitterness
He has literally failed articles based on whether or not it will upset Sony fanboys lol. We know where he stands and it's not neutral.
You are the one showing bias. Christopher is 100% right here, all this HDII and PSN linking is a gigantic hypocrisy.
Much need for it, because I know no one is going to turn any of this attention anywhere and it will just die out until the next Internet band wagon pops up. Gamers are proven to have power, they will then squander it rather than utilize it where it matters.
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Hahaha, His bias shows in every one of his post, anyone with half a brain can see his awful attempts to not come off like a Sony superfan.
It so cringy at times, like his above comment, Instead of saying good,Sony should learn from this, and not lock out players who already paid for their product and helped to make it a successful game, he points the finger at other companies who has nothing to do with Sony's terrible decision to screw customers over.
I’d argue there’s a better softer approach they could do, just make it optional with bonus for people who did it like some free cosmetics and make it required only for cross-play and cross-save purposes. That way the people who can do it have bonus incentives and people in countries without psn can still play without problems.
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The difference is EA, Ubisoft, Take2, etc didn't release their games and then down the line implement forced account linkage under the guise of "security". Gamers know from when they buy EA and Ubisoft games that you'll need an account with those companies. Also when was the last time a company delisted an extremely popular game from over 100 countries?
It was listed on the game as a requirement and it was a decision by arrowhead so that people could get into the game. In future companies won't be able to make such decisions and you will simply be left unable to play the game.
Actually, all of them did this by adding their apps to existing games once they released their apps. So, no, they're not any different.
No, no, it's not about it having to be linked to PSN. The problem was that they initially sold it to customers, without the need for PSN(supposedly due to technical problems at launch), then added the PSN requirement for people they sold it to, that could not get PSN, essentially locking people out of somethin they already bought. Sony even delisted the game in a lot of places, what kind of fuckey is that?
And you response to them rolling back some BS, is to point the finger at other companies. That's the problem, it's always a finger pointing baby ass mentality with some people, oh, they did it so you should look at someone else, grow up. HD2 is huge right now, and many many people are playing it, and we are talking about SONY right now, not UBI, EA or anyone else, but Sony. The players of this wildly successful game is complaining, even the dev was clearly against what Sony was doing, so the uproar is from HD2 fans, not assasins creed or GTA fans.
Nonsense this is just another extension of the console war bs now with the rage mob from the pc community. No you have playstation apologizing for putting their games on pc on their terms, lol. Sony made a fool of themselves by backing off this minor requirement.
They already do, its the reason why the Epic Games store is still losing money, why Origin failed, etc
This whole idea that PC gamers havent been fighting against separate launchers, mandatory accounts, etc up until now just because its Sony is just dumb
Thank you! I have a PS account, but bought this on PC. I just hate having to do stupid stuff like this just to get into the game I bought.
You should try getting a resident evil MP working not as bad as making a sony account but its right up there i tried with a fake dump email holy spam batman. I never finished the account creation
Yet this "power" hasn't changed any of the actually greedy stuff these greedy companies do...
Now if only it would show up more often, unfortunately the majority do not make a fuss often enough, hence why the industry is where it is now.
I buy a lot of digital games, but I could never outright ignore physical games
Single player games i want physical copies of, multiplayer I could care less.
Apologies for being critical, but I do not believe any "Digital vs. Physical" article is serious if they do not realize how much of the environment digital games save. The hard plastic covers and discs, paper prints, logistics and manufacturing behind it, are the worst environmentally. I do digital honestly partly because of it being environment friendly. I don't want to become of those "I don't care, as long as I get everything cheap" people, and vote with my wallet to save nature as much as I can. A good article about this would delve deeper in the business side of it as well, I think gamesindustry.biz had some deeper stuff written about this a few years back, going into detail.