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      Not sure about the consumer laws where you live but it might be possible that you can return it when you cannot use it anymore because of this

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        It is likely that the countries with the best consumer protection laws are among the ones served by PSN because those tend to be policies enacted by richer countries.

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    An honest reaction… From a ceo? That’s the first time I’ve ever seen that. I figured those people were clones and programmed to say the same thing as every other ceo.

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      All it takes to be a CEO is to be the person in charge of running a company. There are a lot of companies that are a lot of different sizes doing a lot of different things. If you start your own company you’re the CEO, but you’re also the head of sales and the person who makes coffee runs.

      The stereotypical CEO (who makes boilerplate, sanitized public statements) is stereotypical in the first place because they run big companies, reporters care what they have to say. If you read the news you hear their words a lot.

      Smaller firms, self started firms, and a lot of the more unique operations that would have CEOs that go against the stereotype don’t make the news often, so the stereotype stays intact.

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    if they want to make great games, maybe they shouldn’t do business with sony

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    I don’t live in a place without PSN, however I uninstalled because of the malware style anticheat files that a small update tried to sneak into my system. Fuck off Arrowhead and Sony both, no thanks, I don’t need to jnstall that kind of stuff to enjoy games with my friends on PC.

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      Idk why they even need anticheat in a PVE game lol

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    Helldivers will never be what it was from now on, shame I missed that train. Specially considering it’s now essentially a free Steam refund (if you insist past the automated responses).

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    Haha. Regain trust. You lost people gaming because of that PSN account linkage. Those people are not playing anymore. How will a continued great game experience regain their trust?

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      In a week. The changes aren’t coming for a week. Nobody has quit because of the changes, they are quitting because they heard about an upcoming change they had the opportunity to read about on all primary storefronts the game is available on, excepting humble.

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    The thing I don’t get about this is that is says on the steam page for Helldivers 2 that it requires a PSN account. Did it not say that before they made that announcement? Or did people see that they weren’t enforcing it, buy the game, and now complain that they’re starting to enforce it?

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    …by providing a continued great game experience (only for PSN users)

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    “Oh no, this seems to be bad for everyone. Too bad there’s nothing we can do about it!” Says CEO with enough control and influence to reverse the policy.

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    I don’t really understand the hype behind helldivers. To my eye, borderlands is essentially the same game but with greater variety, fewer hiccups, and a lower price.

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        I mean, more midnight club vs need for speed but I take your meaning. And yes, aside from the stories and one having significantly more content, they’re essentially the same game. I’d have said battlefront 2, but I don’t respect the remake and fishing out multiple ps2s to play online is preposterous.

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      Very different games to me tbh. Squad pve with gun focused combat, but thats where the similarities end. Borderland is crunchy with tons of guns stats and special movesin a RPG open world with a set narrative to go through.

      Helldivers has a way smaller arsenal and a tighter mission based combat loop. They have more of a meta narrative that you affect vs being the main protags. The tighter gameplay loop is probably the biggest reason I liked it but haven’t play borderlands in forever. Like its very much built for dropping in blowing up your friend and maybe some enemies too, try to do objectives against mounting odds, pass or fail the mission, continue. The fact that weapon progress almost always makes friendly fire a even bigger threat makes it almost a trade off and not a clear path to success.