Sony has backed down from its requirement that Helldivers 2 players on PC link the game with a PlayStation Network account, but the company needs to learn the right lesson from this and stop attempting to implement anti-consumer policies in the first place. The Helldivers franchise holds a special place in the history of PlayStation PC gaming releases, since the original 2015 game was the first Sony-published title released on Windows. It would seem Sony did not learn the expectations of PC gaming fans in the subsequent nine years, since a mandated PSN account link was bound to irk PC players.

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