{"id":280269,"date":"2024-05-06T02:41:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T09:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=331742"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:34:20","slug":"sony-has-just-reversed-course-on-helldivers-2-democracy-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/sony-has-just-reversed-course-on-helldivers-2-democracy-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony has just reversed course on Helldivers 2: democracy wins."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Helldivers 2 players on PC are lucky, as <strong>Sony has confirmed that they have canceled the upcoming mandatory PSN account linking update for Helldivers 2<\/strong>. This has been the soap opera of the weekend.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-affiliation\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-affiliation__content\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instant-gaming.com\/en\/9575-buy-helldivers-2-pc-game-steam-europe\/?igr=softonic1\" class=\"sc-card-affiliation__badge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">-28%<\/a>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-affiliation__image\">\r\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instant-gaming.com\/en\/9575-buy-helldivers-2-pc-game-steam-europe\/?igr=softonic1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\r\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/86f8271e-d1af-4716-9964-753f69141f89\/1032133425\/arrowheads-helldivers-2-download-arrowheads-helldivers-2.jpg\">\r\n            <\/a>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-affiliation__body\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-affiliation__text\">\r\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instant-gaming.com\/en\/9575-buy-helldivers-2-pc-game-steam-europe\/?igr=softonic1\" class=\"sc-card-affiliation__title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HellDivers 2<\/a>\r\n        <p class=\"sc-card-affiliation__supplier\">\r\n          From: <strong>Instant Gaming<\/strong>\r\n        <\/p>\r\n        <p class=\"sc-card-affiliation__price\">\r\n          28\u20ac <strike>40\u20ac<\/strike>\r\n        <\/p>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-affiliation__cta\">\r\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instant-gaming.com\/en\/9575-buy-helldivers-2-pc-game-steam-europe\/?igr=softonic1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-card-affiliation__button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy Offer<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There has been a lot of discussion and writing in the past few days about the mandatory creation and linking of PSN accounts for Helldivers 2 players on PC. Within hours, the good reputation that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/helldivers-2-softonics-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Helldivers 2, one of the best games of the year according to our analysts.\">Helldivers 2, one of the best games of the year according to our analysts.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Although it was confirmed months ago, the PC community recently found out that it was necessary to create and link a PSN account<\/strong> in order to continue playing the successful Arrowhead title.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Helldivers 2 - &quot;The Fight for Freedom Begins &quot; Launch Trailer | PS5 &amp; PC Games\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oD3pxbG9YYI?start=7&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After players realized it, thousands of negative reviews followed on Steam and <strong>Valve decided to offer refunds, even for those who played the game for more than two hours<\/strong> (and up to 100 hours, there was no time limit set).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, the game was released in over a hundred countries that do not have the possibility to create a PSN account.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I do have a part to play. I am not blameless in all of this &#8211; it was my decision to disable account linking at launch so that players could play the game. I did not ensure players were aware of the requirement and we didn&#39;t talk about it enough.<br><br>We knew for about 6 months before\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Pilestedt (@Pilestedt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pilestedt\/status\/1787076609188483254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The CEO of Arrowhead has sung the mea culpa<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>On Twitter, the CEO and Creative Director of Arrowhead, Johan Pilestedt, partially took the blame <\/strong>and said that the team is in talks with Sony to find a solution. &#8220;I have my share of the blame,&#8221; Pilestedt wrote on Twitter yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t absolve myself of guilt in all of this: it was my decision to disable account linking at launch so that players could play. I didn&#8217;t make sure that players were aware of the requirement and we didn&#8217;t talk enough about it,&#8221; he said in the tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Helldivers fans &#8212; we\u2019ve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update. The May 6 update, which would have required Steam and PlayStation Network account linking for new players and for current players beginning May 30, will not be moving forward.<br><br>We\u2019re still\u2026<\/p>&mdash; PlayStation (@PlayStation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayStation\/status\/1787331667616829929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And now it turns out that the reaction and conversations from the community have paid off, as <strong>Sony seems to have given in on this matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the official PlayStation Twitter account, <strong>the upcoming mandatory PSN account linking update has been canceled<\/strong>, and apologies have been offered for the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it was confirmed months ago, the PC community recently found out that it was necessary to create and link a PSN account in order to continue playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9265,"featured_media":280270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1403],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-280269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-playstation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313376,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280269\/revisions\/313376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280269"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=280269"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=280269"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=280269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}