• @cosmicrookie
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    1167 months ago

    Remember the people suggesting to change the Hell Divers negative reviews because Sony listened?

    They have learned nothing

    • @Trikami
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      327 months ago

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      • @cosmicrookie
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        487 months ago

        Sounds like they will be bringing the PSN requirement back for future games maybe. The only thing they probably learned was to announce the requirement for account linking from the start and make it more vissible

        • @[email protected]
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          97 months ago

          Is that worth the loss of sales from those 177 or whatever it was extra countries? That’s the part that confuses me.

      • @Dagnet
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        57 months ago

        I think for the executives the only reason to release old games on pc is to bring more players to their console, and if they can’t have a psn account that means they will nvr buy a PlayStation. That’s my guess

      • @MeaanBeaan
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        47 months ago

        Definitely the third option. They’re going to wait until Helldivers hype dies down then quietly reimplement the requirement when much less people are tuned in. Guaranteed.

      • @[email protected]
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        Probably bullshui but there’s a 3rd option that they have legal reasons not to operate servers in some of those regions and helldivers was violating those restrictions. It takes more than a week to review the legal code in 180 countries, review the internal policies in place and audit the game for any violations all with the added complexity that arrowhead and sony are independent entities.

    • @TrickDacy
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      -57 months ago

      Yeah I’m sure changing negative reviews is a factor here and totally wouldn’t have been an incentive for future good behavior

      • @[email protected]
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        57 months ago

        Their incentive is money. All this is teaching them is that they need to find a different approach to do the same thing.

        The AAA outfits are trash and should die.

        • @TrickDacy
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          27 months ago

          Bad reviews tend to lead to worse sales…

          • @barsquid
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            07 months ago

            Sorry, the argument is they should have zero consequences for trying something reviled because they abandoned it later? And that will make them not try similar things later, because of reasons?

            • @TrickDacy
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              07 months ago

              The “argument” is that a few people said people should reward them doing the right thing eventually but others somehow think that’s evil or some weird ass shit.

              It’s not complicated, as much as Internet weirdos want it to be

              • @barsquid
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                07 months ago

                They are being rewarded for doing the right thing simply by people not continuing to refund.

                • @TrickDacy
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                  Ok it’s just weird to me that people like you have some moral objection to a slightly different attitude applied to reviews. It’s not something worth talking about.

                  • @barsquid
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                    07 months ago

                    Nobody cares what attitude to apply to reviews. You decided to have a conversation. You don’t have to continue it.