Helldivers 2 is one of the finest games I've ever played and is a breath of fresh air with it's non-overbearing monetization, an extremely competitive price, and easily the most innovative take on the live service model we've ever seen.

Having essentially a gigantic community D&D campaign centered around a galactic war is a genius evolution of the original game, and much of the game itself is an incredible 3D conversion of the original Helldivers 1. Content has been flowing at breakneck speed and there is perhaps no other dev I've seen that is so receptive to community feedback.

As promised, I have updated my review and everyone else who gave a negative review due to the proposed changes from Sony should do the same.

*Old Review prior to Playstation's post
*The quiet part is so close to being said out loud that it isn't even funny. Sony can kick rocks, if the game survived without account linking up till now then it'll survive in perpetuity without it. I don't own a playstation and I don't plan to, there's no reason for me or anybody else on steam to make a PSN account.

At bare minimum you need to refund all the people in unsupported countries that you rear ended by selling them a game you were planning on breaking by requiring this feature.

It's unfortunate for those at Arrowhead that have worked so hard on this just to get another black mark on the record due to Sony's greed but it needs to be called out. Do right by those in the Philippines, Russia, the Baltics, and more that you effectively defrauded and I'll consider changing my review. And for arrowhead, you need to throw off the yoke at some point in the future. It's great that Sony supported development and all but this is overwhelmingly a PC game first/console game second and they need to butt out or lose the partnership if they're going to try to sabotage the game like this. Developers leave stifling and abusive publishers all the time and HD2 is exactly the success needed to go work on your own projects instead.

Helldivers 2 is one of the finest games I've ever played and is a breath of fresh air with it's non-overbearing monetization, an extremely competitive price, and easily the most innovative take on the live service model we've ever seen. Having essentially a gigantic community D&D campaign centered around a galactic war is a genius evolution of the original game, and much of the game itself is an incredible 3D conversion of the original Helldivers 1. Content has been flowing at breakneck speed and there is perhaps no other dev I've seen that is so receptive to community feedback. As promised, I have updated my review and everyone else who gave a negative review due to the proposed changes from Sony should do the same. *Old Review prior to Playstation's post *The quiet part is so close to being said out loud that it isn't even funny. Sony can kick rocks, if the game survived without account linking up till now then it'll survive in perpetuity without it. I don't own a playstation and I don't plan to, there's no reason for me or anybody else on steam to make a PSN account. At bare minimum you need to refund all the people in unsupported countries that you rear ended by selling them a game you were planning on breaking by requiring this feature. It's unfortunate for those at Arrowhead that have worked so hard on this just to get another black mark on the record due to Sony's greed but it needs to be called out. Do right by those in the Philippines, Russia, the Baltics, and more that you effectively defrauded and I'll consider changing my review. And for arrowhead, you need to throw off the yoke at some point in the future. It's great that Sony supported development and all but this is overwhelmingly a PC game first/console game second and they need to butt out or lose the partnership if they're going to try to sabotage the game like this. Developers leave stifling and abusive publishers all the time and HD2 is exactly the success needed to go work on your own projects instead.