Gabriel Stanford-ReisingerArrowhead Game Studio’s CEO is praising the community for voicing their displeasure in the PSN account Helldivers 2 debacle. At the last minute, Sony pulled plans to require Steam users link their Steam profiles to their PSN accounts to continue playing the shooter. The massive amount of backlash stems largely from people who don’t want PSN accounts or those who don’t live in a region where the service is available.
On Twitter, CEO Johan Pilestedt said he was “impressed” by the “willpower of the Helldivers 2 community” as well the ability to collaborate. While the act itself of linking Steam and PSN will still continue to be an optional feature, it won’t fall as a requirement, at least not with Arrowhead’s big hit.
Frankly, we’re not that surprised, the PC community is what made Helldivers 2 so popular, to begin with. Without the PC release, it wouldn’t even breach the top 20, much less the top seven highest-grossing PlayStation-published games.
Firstly, I am impressed by the willpower of the @helldivers2 community and your ability to collaborate. Secondly I want to thank our partners and friends at @PlayStation for quickly and effectively making the decision to leave PSN linking optional. We together want to set a new… https://t.co/2rayksgH1v
— Pilestedt (@Pilestedt) May 6, 2024
What do you think? If you’ve got it on Steam, do you have your account linked? Let us know below!
