• @Shayeta@feddit.de
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    392 months ago

    Ha! I remember the devs tweeting during the Helldivers 2 fiasco barely a week ago that they WOULDN’T require a PSN account for PC. What a bunch of shameless liars.

    • Aielman15
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      952 months ago

      It’s not the devs’ fault, it’s Sony.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if they were told one thing three days ago, and another one now.

      • DacoTaco
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        62 months ago

        The developers were told 6 months before release that it needed to have psn required. Granted, thats waaaaaay too late to tell a dev that, but they could have delayed the game. Instead, they made it half arse and still told sony it was good to go.
        Imho, both have gone wrong here

    • @Stovetop@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The difference is that Helldivers 2 was already a released game; people had paid for a product which was going to be taken away from them. After all the controversy, Sony decided not to follow through with that plan and let people keep what they already had.

      This is still scummy, but with Ghost of Tsushima, no one has received anything yet. People put in an order, the order was canceled, and money refunded, so in practical terms there is no loss…other than not being able to buy the game.

      It may be possible to set your account to a different region and purchase anyways, but in my opinion, piracy is absolutely justified in this case when the vendor literally refuses to make a product available to you. If there’s no legal option for obtaining it, then there’s no harm in pirating it.

      • applepie
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        152 months ago

        Piracy is always justified.

        You want my money, you need to earn it, shiti business doesn’t get rewarded.

        • @lud@lemm.ee
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          22 months ago

          I pirate myself but if you play the game in some way how haven’t they earned your money?

          If you want to boycott do it with some backbone at least. Don’t play the fucking game and don’t talk about it whatsoever.

    • @BrowseMan@sh.itjust.works
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      172 months ago

      To be fair, thy said the one player game campaign doesn’t need it, but multiplayer did.

      That’s still the case and that’s why steam is giving refund: people are basically buying the game with part missing.