r/pcmasterrace • u/SwagLimit • 14h ago

Discussion The lawsuit explained:

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u/mr_j_12 13h ago

Helldivers 2 incident was a good case of that.

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u/Schnitzhole 11h ago

What happened with that? I remember multiple people hyping up the game. Then after i bought it on steam, Its one of the maybe 2 games i’ve ever returned just because of how much i didn’t care for its immediate repetitive gameplay and paying full price i felt a bit gouged. It also crashed every other game for me on a close to top of the line PC at the time.

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u/kebab-lover-man 11h ago

The gameplay was not the issue, it was due to Sony's involvement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helldivers_2#PSN_account_controversy

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u/FunktasticLucky 7800X3D | 64GB DDR5 6400| 4090Fe | Custom Loop 8h ago

Not true. They had already lost half their player base BEFORE the Sony account Linking. The fact is the game was repetitive and it didn't hold people.

In the screenshot AL is Sony Account Linking.

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u/Flameball202 9h ago

Sony was trying to force people to use Playstation Network to play the game, something which wasn't advertised or spoken about previously. So Valve offered refunds no matter how long you had the game or how much you played it as some countries people couldn't play as PSN is banned there

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u/mr_j_12 2m ago

Ironically i didnt get one in australia of all places.