Ben Roach

Sony taking away access from people who previously bought the game during a horrid launch in the first place, truly a great example of a company who has proven consistently to not care about their player base. I am not speaking bad of Arrowhead here, purely Sony. The justification for having to link your PlayStation Network account is "security", but provides no enhanced security to the player base what so ever and even could be argued this policy makes security worse! Sony's most recent data leak being in October, 2023, confirming the following; "The zero-day is CVE-2023-34362, a critical-severity SQL injection flaw that leads to remote code execution, leveraged by the Clop ransomware in large-scale attacks that compromised numerous organizations across the world." - Bill Toulas, The Bleeping Computer, October 4, 2023 This is the most recent of numerous previous data breaches from Sony. I feel it's a given that technology today is advancing and changing every day is and is the reasoning we have cyber security engineers and researchers to prevent issues like this. People on PC aren't showing on the PlayStation Network unless your account is already linked. The conclusion I've come to with this decision and from what I've gathered in my research to find out why they made this decision, Sony's intentions here is to purely say one thing to make the player base feel 'safer' and to try and justify their greedy decision, to just show off to stake holders. Arrowhead is NOT a publicly traded company and do not belong to Sony, and the studio flew relativity under the radar compared to other bigger companies, but they're passionate about what they do and enjoy themselves while doing it. Helldivers 2 exceeded expectations by leaps and bounds from what seems like its entire audience. "Fun is not the main goal, it's a condition that has to be at least partially met to monetize." - Sea-Housing3435, Reddit It's unfortunate for a company such as Sony to hold the power of a platform that so many use and to practically ruin values of a company that has truly just been trying to make fun and enjoyable games for years. Personally, it makes me think twice about purchasing another game in the future on a platform such as Steam where I will later possibly have to tie my Steam account to some other third-party service so they can choose to do whatever they want with my data. Looking at you, Electronic (f)Arts. Did I forget to mention the 121 countries where you cannot even currently sign up for PSN, but these same countries have a player base that has already purchased Helldivers 2 and may not even be ever to play this game they purchased again, or possibly even receive a refund due to ToS refund policy of Steam.