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Helldivers 2 receives influx of positive reviews after PSN backtrack

www.pcgamesn.com Helldivers 2 receives influx of positive reviews after PSN backtrack

Helldivers 2, a hit co-op shooter with Left 4 Dead 2 and Killing Floor 2 style wave based shooting, is reversing its Mostly Negative rating.

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They should not be getting praise for walking this back. It was ridiculous from the start, and if not for the justifiably overwhelming negative response, they would have just done it. The absolute most that should happen is people stop giving them shit for it
- There is something to be said about the devs going to bat for the players, though. They stood up to the big bosses and won. Ain't nobody praising Sony.
  
  The community manager got fired apparently
- If reviews don't flip back to positive in response (seeing as they only went negative in anticipation of this policy being enforced), then we have no way of indicating our dissatisfaction next time Sony do something undesirable.
- Oh for fuck sake, let people be happy. I'm happy with the decision, very happy in fact.
- Yeah I’m going to disagree. The community manager got fired for standing up on behalf of the players.
  
  I don’t know what else people expect Arrowhead to do realistically to “make this right,” but that community manager guy had always dreamed of working for Arrowhead and lost his dream job by NOT acting like a corporate shill when it came to choosing the players or his bosses.
  
  SONY was in the wrong here. Please let’s stop being so harsh to the guys killing their careers by saying to the people like the community manager who lost his job (by doing the right thing no less) that they “should’ve done more.”
  
  Direct your ire to whatever Sony executive was pushing for this. Please just let Arrowhead devs continue to polish this game that most of us are really enjoying otherwise.
  
  The community manager (that you somehow failed to name?) was known to be combative and derisive toward users in forum posts and was already leaving a bad taste prior to this recent event. His "24hr redemption arc" had nothing to do with SONY or Arrowhead's actions on the issues at hand. Don't conflate the events.
  
  Stay vigilant. Sony's still looking to profit at all times.
- Not to mention Sony probably got a lot of new accounts registered and linked in these few days, so they already got what they wanted and walking back doesn't change much...
Have they already backtracked in practice or just in PR?
- It would have gone live with yesterday's patch and didn't, so there's significant substance to their statement so far
  
  That's great news. I've seen reviews go from overwhelmingly negative back to mixed. I wonder if reviews will ever get back to normal.
  
  For now. 🤌🏽
- Just PR, it's still not available in all the countries they said they'd restrict it from. (those that own it can play it though). So in some ways it's like they went through with it and no one cares because Sony said the magic words 'you guys win'.
Not to mention Sony probably got a lot of new accounts registered and linked in these few days, so they already got what they wanted and walking back doesn't change much...
Fucking astroturfing. Typical.

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