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sverit, do gaming w Sony backs down on demand that Helldivers 2 players log into a PSN account

We did it, lemmy!

vale,

Lemmy was overall a very small part of it. It is a very small community compared to other social platforms. Even if every single Lemmy user owned Helldivers 2 AND left a review, it would still account for less than a quarter of the recent Steam reviews.

ChuckEffingNorris,

I bet you are fun at parties

Avialle,

Often facts beats tribalism. :p

TexMexBazooka, do gaming w Sony backs down on demand that Helldivers 2 players log into a PSN account

That was fast

Fribbtastic,

I mean, Helldivers 2 was overwhelmingly positive. 3 days later it was overwhelmingly negative. With almost 100k negative reviews on 5th May.

Gradually_Adjusting, do gaming w Sony backs down on demand that Helldivers 2 players log into a PSN account
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

Gamers: be like this every time. Raising hell works.

SuiXi3D,
@SuiXi3D@fedia.io avatar

Steam giving out refunds works.

Gradually_Adjusting,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

They value the goodwill of their users; being a privately owned company they have the luxury of thinking that far ahead.

Alk,

Didn’t work with the kernel level anti cheat. Not enough hell was raised.

SuiXi3D,
@SuiXi3D@fedia.io avatar

Not enough folks refunded the game over it.

SuperSaiyanSwag,

But that was there at the launch right?

xavier666,

And it only took 100,000 negative reviews

Woozythebear,

300k*

darreninthenet,
@darreninthenet@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

It didn’t help they hadn’t thought it through either… the game was for sale in countries where you can’t get PSN 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

darkphotonstudio, do gaming w Sony backs down on demand that Helldivers 2 players log into a PSN account

This isn’t a win. A win would be gaining something. This is just getting back what they stole.

lanolinoil, do gaming w Don't say Manor Lords was made by a 'solo developer,' argues competing city builder maker: 'The team size on it is maybe even larger than ours'
@lanolinoil@lemmy.world avatar

I will say I can feel the hype train with Manor Lords, which I usually am not a part of. I like that kind of game and already had furthest frontier so I picked it up.

I was pretty… shocked with how much was unfinished and how little soul and love the game felt like it had.

I figured I got duped and someone paid every youtuber on a slow week to hype it up since they missed some publisher deadline or whatever

all-knight-party,
@all-knight-party@kbin.run avatar

Yeah, I saw a review where the guy was like "what mechanics are there are really polished" and to me that was saying that they can really feel an absence of the "rest of the game", and so its probably not that far along.

WarlordSdocy,

I mean it just released into early access so I mean yeah it makes sense that there isn’t a full game there yet. Personally I like this approach to early access more then the approach a lot of other games take where the full game is there but it’s super buggy and has lots of bad design throughout it. This feels more like a slowly building out and polishing from the start of the game to the end which I think is gonna make a great game once it’s done. And even now while the experience isn’t super long it’s really good and well polished.

digdilem,

This is exactly why I never buy Early Access games. The biggest thrill for me is starting a new game, and if that isn’t as good as it can possibly be, then that opportunity has been wasted.

Sure, it /may/ get better at some undefined point in the future, but there’s just so many games out there that are complete, and won’t require re-visiting at some point because they got better. Once that first play is gone, it’s gone.

Aussiemandeus,
@Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone avatar

Farthest frontier is great, all the hype around manor lords made me go back and Farthest play fromtier again

Fogle, do gaming w Sony backs down on demand that Helldivers 2 players log into a PSN account

It didn’t even take them the whole weekend. Good.

OsaErisXero,

It's Monday in Japan, it took precisely the whole weekend.

Fogle,

Fair enough I guess

thingsiplay, do gaming w Sony backs down on demand that Helldivers 2 players log into a PSN account

When push back and player voice once in a lifetime matters.

SnotFlickerman, do games w I'm so annoyed that they're calling the new hobbit game 'A The Lord of the Rings Game'
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Also, the trailer refers to Hobbits as “creatures” instead of “people.”

What’s with a little fantasy dehumanization, eh, eh?

Odelay42, do games w I'm so annoyed that they're calling the new hobbit game 'A The Lord of the Rings Game'

Obviously “the” is a critical part of the trademark. Lawyers win that debate.

But why did the marketers win the “a… game” debate?

It could have been, “The Lord of the Rings: whatever whether Hobbit farm” and avoided all the weirdness.

VerseAndVermin,

That seems weirder to me to be honest. Like the recent The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria. Just call if Return to Moria and make a LotR badge for marketings sake. Same here.

I’ll accept Middle-Earth though.

RightHandOfIkaros,

A Story from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of the Shire

HKayn,
@HKayn@dormi.zone avatar

I can understand the decision somewhat.

Putting “The Lord of the Rings” first in the title would imply that this furthers the main canon, when it’s actually only set in its universe.

They could have indeed chosen a better subtitle though, like “from The Lord of the Rings”.

SuperSpecialNickname, (edited ) do gaming w Kerbal Space Program fans react with anger over Intercept Games closure, and you know what that means: Review bombing on Steam

Title sounds so sleazy and scummy and I want to read the article but I don’t want to give clicks to slimeball who wrote this

Ultragigagigantic,
@Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world avatar

Does looking at it on archive give the website a view?

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w I'm so annoyed that they're calling the new hobbit game 'A The Lord of the Rings Game'

Trademark moment

proper, do games w I'm so annoyed that they're calling the new hobbit game 'A The Lord of the Rings Game'
@proper@lemmy.world avatar

“Tales from the Shire: A Lord of the Rings game” they probably just have a few “A Lord of the Rings game”(s) in the pipeline

brian,

So I missed it the first time. But the title is “A The Lord of the Rings Game”. Assumedly to maintain copyright, they did not drop the “The” from “The Lord of the Rings” even though they started with “A”

catloaf,

That would probably be trademark, not copyright.

deegeese, do gaming w 'We have not confirmed any instance of Vanguard bricking anyone's hardware' following its League of Legends rollout, Riot says, but there are definitely problems for some players

It just boggles my mind that there are people who think everyone should give complete control of their computer to Microsoft just because there are people cheating at games.

This will be my final Windows computer.

Blisterexe,

I assume you will be switching to Linux, if so, I can answer any questions you might have

Dreyns,

Well i already switched and I’m wondering, how does root access works on Linux ? What i mean is there games that used shitty anti cheat that are running on proton have the same access to your PC or is limited by the proton prefix ? Thank you in advance for your input on the matter!

bbuez,

Tl;dr : yes they are limited in their access to the rest of your PC… mostly

From what I understand, when such anticheats are configured for Linux, they’re still running in the user space and is why some developers go as far to disable support for Linux entirely.

You, the privileged user, unless logged into the root user (not recommended), are part of the “sudoers” group, which allows you to execute commands on behalf of the root user using the “sudo” command which requires your password. Games should never need this to play.

This however doesn’t mean the AC is sandboxed, its honestly beyond my knowledge exactly what it does have access to, but I can say it is far less than what Windows kernel AC has. And again why developers feeling the need for such intrusion simply pull away from linux

Dreyns,

Hmm i see thanks

Blisterexe,

The anticheat can read all your files (in the home directory), and see all running processes. It can’t change much about the system, however, if you give it root once, it can keep it.

Dreyns,

That’s already too much imo

Blisterexe,

I agree, but its way less bad than what the windows anticheat can see, also, most every ptogram can do those things

panned_cakes, do gaming w 'We have not confirmed any instance of Vanguard bricking anyone's hardware' following its League of Legends rollout, Riot says, but there are definitely problems for some players
@panned_cakes@hexbear.net avatar

LOL “we didn’t destroy their devices” what is going on in there gamers??

nix,

Yea this is a very worrisome denial.

WarlordSdocy, do gaming w Kerbal Space Program fans react with anger over Intercept Games closure, and you know what that means: Review bombing on Steam

If it’s on steam it isn’t even really review bombing. Cause for steam reviews you have to own the game. So this is people who own the game giving a warning to potentially new people who might get the game about what’s going on and a recommendation to not buy it. Usually review bombing is people who have never even played the game or consumed the media reviewing it bad to bomb it for whatever reason. So this definitely isn’t that and they’re just trying to shift the definition of review bombing to any kind of mass negative reviews for whatever reason.

eskimofry,

The reason is to get paid by corps to wipe the bad reviews.

WarlordSdocy,

Yep cause the journalists make money through ads and game developers are usually the ones buying the ad space so they gotta do what the companies want or they might lose their advertising as punishment.

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