You guys have likely or probably heard about the recent drama surrounding Helldivers 2.
Well it gets both worse and more funny:
To this: https://steamdb.info/sub/137730/history/?changeid=23416542
To this:
All in the span of 1-2 days. THe middle link is most recent, with Sony having delisted the game in 177 countries. This is likely to cover their asses so to prevent people from buying and also to prevent refunds, but those seem to already be happening.
I know I'll be asking for one, because I originally saw it as "optional" on my end and clicked "no, continue using Steam". I do not trust Sony after what happened back in 2013, and even before that they fucked me over when they wouldn't refund nor fix my PS3, despite it being within it's 1st yr warranty at the time.
They also have a patent filed that tells us they want to use biometric scanned data to prove who you are, to provide them with a "proof" ID for when they go about issuing bans on their own system.
So yeah, I know MS has done some stupid shit, some even nasty and tyrannical, but Sony is honestly taking the absolute piss right now. They had one good game that's been making rounds with the general gaming public, also being the least predatory live service game, and now they pull the rug out, because they quickly want an influx of "new" PSN users to show off at their next investors call.
Also to top this shit cake off, they apparently are going to introduce a PSN overlay on their games released on PC, so yay, Steam overlay and PSN overlay on top of that, as if we needed more performance impact.
I know what they've got planned at the end of the day anyway. I know they want to pull a Ubisoft and eventually make their own client either as a storefront or as a launcher like R*, and enforce PSN accounts for both. This isn't how you win people over, this is how you fragment people from their libraries and existing ecosystems.
I'm a part of Steam/GoG ecosystems, I'd rather it just stay that way. I've dropped Ubisoft, EA, and I am ever so close to dropping Blizzard (because their battlenet client keeps disconnecting on me, and yet Steam/Galaxy and Discord don't, and Blizz blames my ISP, which is a lie, because there's a bug in their client they refuse to fix and ban anyone talking about it on their forums)., and I can easily just stop buying Sony's stuff on Steam, if that's the game they want to play.
Too many assclowns on Steam and reddit keep parroting the same tired old shit "it's just another account", and we already had this age old debate when Epic showed up, and it's honestly just idiots who don't understand what free will is, what having a choice in what you do is for oneself, and not having to constantly sign up for everything. Some of us just don't want to jump through extra hoops all the god damn time, and as I get older I yearn for less clutter getting in my way.
Step right up come on in, feel the buzz in your veins, I'm like an chemical electrical right into your brain and I'm the one who killed the Radio, soon you'll all see
So pay up motherfuckers you belong to "V"
