It’s been a curler coaster of every week for Sony Interactive Leisure, all due to the unforced error made with Helldivers 2. Out of the blue, the corporate, by way of developer Arrowhead, determined that every one PC gamers would wish to create a PlayStation Community account and hyperlink it to their Steam account in the event that they wish to proceed taking part in.
PSN account-linking has been an possibility because the launch of the sport, however all of a sudden making it a requirement rubbed folks the incorrect approach, not least as a result of many merely can’t create a PSN account, because the service is just not accessible the place they reside. Sony was so dedicated to the transfer, it needed to pull the sport off sale from greater than 170 nations the place PSN is just not accessible.
Evidently, the backlash has been large, sending the sport’s Steam overview rating tumbling and inflicting an overwhelmingly damaging response all over the place. Whereas many gamers had been rightly fuming, some turned their consideration to the opposite main Sony PC launch on the horizon: Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Minimize.
Ghost of Tsushima’s long-awaited launch on PC is just a few days away, dropping on Might 17 throughout Steam and the Epic Video games Retailer. That is all effectively and good, till you keep in mind that Tsushima is Sony’s first PC sport to implement the PlayStation overlay straight into the sport, successfully turning your PC right into a PS5. This allows you to earn Trophies, and it’s required for the sport’s Legends on-line mode, which helps cross-play with PS4/5.
Seemingly spooked by the Helldivers 2 backlash, gamers began questioning whether or not the identical PSN account linking coverage would additionally have an effect on Tsushima, particularly since this can be a primarily single-player sport. In response to followers, developer Sucker Punch clarified on Twitter that whereas you’ll must hyperlink your Steam and PSN accounts to play Legends on-line mode (and entry the flowery new overlay), the single-player mode has no such requirement.
Requiring PSN account linking to play Legends is comprehensible, particularly given the web mode’s help for cross-play. On the very least, that is being made clear forward of launch, and never months after gamers purchased the sport.
The excellent news continues, too, as a result of the Helldivers 2 state of affairs that triggered all this drama seems to have been resolved. Earlier at present, Sony walked again the PSN account linking requirement for Helldivers 2, so hopefully this may train the writer to have slightly extra tact sooner or later.
Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Minimize launches Might 16 on PC.
