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Helldivers 2 – fans love and hate with equal ferocity (Sony Interactive Entertainment)

The madness surrounding Helldivers 2 and PSN accounts continues as thousands of fans try to get the game’s Steam reviews ‘back to normal.’

It looks like the trouble with the PC version of Helldivers 2 over the weekend is going to be even more short-lived than Sony could’ve hoped, as a group of fans have taken it upon themselves to improve the game’s Steam review rating.

On Friday, Sony announced that, from June, everyone would need a PSN account to play the game. The problem is that in over 170 countries PSN is not available and so, incredibly, Sony removed the game from sale in those regions.

That caused more than 200,000 people to bombard the game with negative reviews on Steam, dropping it from positive to ‘overwhelmingly negative.’ As soon Sony reversed their decision that rating crept back up to ‘mostly negative’ and now fans want to get it back in the green.

The attempts to improve the game’s review rating is led by a campaign on Reddit called Operation Clean Up, which is presented as a ‘major order’ from the game, complete with a progress bar to show how well things are going.

At time of writing there have been over 41,000 positive reviews posted on Steam, just over 18% of the total needed to reverse the 219,821 negative ones.

‘Arrowhead has worked very hard to make this game special, and you the player have shown both Sony and Arrowhead that your voice matters too,’ reads the Reddit post.

‘Let us restore Helldivers 2 on Steam back to its formal glory. And let us restore this community back to normal.

‘Please reverse any negative reviews you left for any other games that Arrowhead or Sony has worked on. Let’s do better as a community and not do that again.’

It seems odd to try and stop people from doing it again when, to them, their actions were perfectly justified at the time, but then these are the most hardcore of fans.

Operation Clean Up does seem to be working though, with the game’s Steam rating already back up to ‘Mixed’ and likely to creep back to positive within the next day or two.

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What exactly Sony is going to learn from all this is not clear, as while they were quick to reverse their decision linking to a PSN account is still required for all their other PC games.

It just so happens that they haven’t got any other major multiplayer games on Steam at the moment but Ghost Of Tsushima does have a multiplayer mode and you will need a PSN account to play that – but not the main single-player campaign.

At one point, Sony was intending to release a number of new live service titles this generation, that would likely launch simultaneously or soon after on PC. They’ve not mentioned those plans (or indeed anything else) for some time, but it seems clear that their original intention would’ve been to require a PSN account for them.

Since PSN isn’t available in so many countries though that’s a pretty serious flaw in their calculations, that needs addressing before there’s another disaster like Helldivers 2.

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