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Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

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Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

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Post by Adverblessly »

sigmoid10 wrote: post #4

This really sucks for some people, but the true impact may be overreported and is definitely blown out of proportion by the review bombing. While all this is hugely controversial on reddit, if you look at steam charts, the player count did not take any obvious hit. In fact it follows the natural trend after every content release. So at least on steam the delisting seems to have affected almost no active players. It's…

> review bombing

Checked out of curiosity, at the time I started writing this comment, the Steam store page lists a total of 465,340 reviews for Helldivers 2, of which 137,264 are negative reviews left in the last three days. The game was released ~3 months ago, giving us the beautiful statistic that over 3 months, 1/3rd of all reviews were negative reviews left in the last 3 days.

Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0 »

JohnMakin wrote: post #56

“Players shocked pikachu sony does something annoying.” any older users here may remember the SOE (sony online entertainment) days. They’d do evil stuff that would make this look like a rookie move.

Ain't that the truth. For me it was a reminder that the values of the company that chose to install malware on your PC[1] are alive and well. I personally dropped PSN and started boycotting them after I would not get a refund on a toddler purchased game.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

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Post by Agingcoder »

JohnMakin wrote: post #56

“Players shocked pikachu sony does something annoying.” any older users here may remember the SOE (sony online entertainment) days. They’d do evil stuff that would make this look like a rookie move.

Are you referring to the rootkit that came with audiocds in the early 2000s ?

Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

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Post by [deleted] »

Dystakruul wrote: post #36
sigmoid10 wrote: post #4

This really sucks for some people, but the true impact may be overreported and is definitely blown out of proportion by the review bombing. While all this is hugely controversial on reddit, if you look at steam charts, the player count did not take any obvious hit. In fact it follows the natural trend after every content release. So at least on steam the delisting seems to have affected almost no active players. It's…

> the player count did not take any obvious hit > on steam the delisting seems to have affected almost no active players in most cases, if you bought a game on steam before it got delisted, you can still play it. even if you uninstalled it in between, you can re-download it. the actual impact won't be fully visible until May 30th or June 4th since that's when they will start blocking access to the game for players wh…

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Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

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Post by smallnix »

croes wrote: post #15
unpopularopp wrote: post #3

I hope one day the EU will go after Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. If iOS is a walled garden then consoles are prison.

You don't need to buy from MSs, Sony's or Nintendo's store to play a game on their consoles. There was no way for iOS except Apple's App store.

I vote with my wallet but I also vote at the ballot.

I want my delegates to regulate the market to make it more fun to me.

Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

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Post by npteljes »

Laaas wrote: post #18
kstenerud wrote: post #7

[flagged]

I’m not sure whether this is satire or not.

I don't read it as one. Culture, as a context, is important when considering actions of people. And the actions of a company are actions of the people who control that company.

Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

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Post by TiredOfLife »

flohofwoe wrote: post #6

I wonder why the number of countries doesn't add up. PSN is available in 73 out of 195 countries, while Steam is available everywhere. Shouldn't that put the number of countries where the game isn't available anymore at 122 instead of 177? (not that it matters much in practice of course)

Because a poor intern is forced to work weekend to fix the mess made by superiors

Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

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Post by sigmoid10 »

out_of_protocol wrote: post #45
sigmoid10 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would removing players from steam push their numbers? Especially since it is obvious from the charts that the removed countries contributed almost nothing to the active playerbase?

Not obvious at all, so far > look at steam charts, the player count did not take any obvious hit > the actual impact won't be fully visible until May 30th or June 4th since that's when they will start blocking access to the game for players who didn't link their accounts

Considering the 100k+ bad reviews already left in the past 3 days, it seems there is no impact beyond that.

Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

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Post by TiredOfLife »

Dystakruul wrote: post #43
flohofwoe wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A multiplayer game that's very successful on Steam - but published by Sony - suddenly has a requirement to have both a Steam and PSN account in order to log into the game - a couple of months after the game was released. As a PC gamer I would be pissed too tbh (on the other hand, it's the same bullshit that Ubisoft pulls for their games released on Steam).

> suddenly has a requirement I think players were already asked to link their accounts since the game's release, but it was optional (in the sense that you could easily skip that step). also, for further context, here's the official announcement that sparked this whole thing: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/41968685...

It was also broken at launch and was made optional.
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