After Sony reversed course on its controversial plan to power Helldivers 2 PC gamers to enroll in a PSN account, the sport’s group has launched a brand new operation to flood the Steam web page with optimistic critiques. Initially, information of the PSN requirement noticed gamers protest by flooding the Helldivers 2 Steam web page with greater than 200,000 “overwhelmingly destructive” critiques, drastically altering the sport’s consumer scores in a brief interval.
Operation: Clear Up is making an attempt to reverse that protest, and gamers have even begun sharing this initiative as if it had been one of many Main Orders that seems each week in Helldivers 2. “Helldivers, do you have to select to just accept this main order, please take into account reversing your Steam evaluate. Arrowhead has labored very exhausting to make this sport particular, and also you the participant have proven each Sony and Arrowhead that your voice issues too,” the Reddit post reads.
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“Allow us to restore Helldivers 2 on Steam again to its former glory. And allow us to restore this group again to regular. Please reverse any destructive critiques you left for another video games that Arrowhead or Sony has labored on. Let’s do higher as a group and never try this once more.”
Since Could 6, optimistic critiques for Helldivers 2 have spiked dramatically, with greater than 72,000 uploaded to this point. The playerbase nonetheless has a protracted strategy to go, though it will seemingly be excellent news for developer Arrowhead after a troublesome week of heavy criticism from the Helldivers 2 group. Arrowhead had confirmed that Sony made the decision to implement the PSN login requirement, nevertheless it nonetheless accepted blame for not communicating this requirement clearly sufficient to gamers.
“We collectively wish to set a brand new normal for what a reside sport is, and the way builders and group can assist one another to create the very best sport experiences,” Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt posted after Sony’s U-turn this week.