Don't feel lame. I'm not buying it now. Requirements like these are taking over gaming and it's asinine.

I'm not creating a new account for every new game I want to play. Ubisoft, Rockstar, EA, Sony, Microsoft... It's absolutely maddening.

Half the reason companies do this is to spam your email address, track you, and sell your data.

I played for 90 hours, it's fun. But like many games where the narrative is determined by hundreds of thousands of people, it suffers from the Marvel Studios problem where nothing ever happens. The aliens destroy X planet and it gets rebuilt and everyone moves back. No attacks on super earth, two enemy types, mostly the same set of planets.

The gameplay loops are fun, but I have most stuff unlocked and was hoping the robots would really make an incursion, or the bugs would attack super earth. So far though, no dice.

For $40 and 90 hours of play, I can't complain. It just doesn't feel like it has the staying power of a DRG though.

I want to play but not with a rootkit

I bought this game, then couldn't remember my PSN password, or recover my PSN account. Didn't realize it was optional. But I got a Steam refund.

I'm right there with you

Buy it. The game is fun.

As I understand it, it's in the TOS and it was not implemented on launch because of "bugs".

I’m thinking they believe this will fix the ongoing cross play issue, but from the sounds of it made things worse.

Me and my friends easily put in 50+ hours in 2 weeks, and then cross play stopped working since the start of March and none of us have touched it since as we wanted to spread democracy with the squad.

Of course they are, they agreed to work with sony, they added or allowed sony to add this requirement.

Apparently this was always a planned feature but probably wasn’t ready for prime time at launch.

It's been "in the contract" since the beginning, they weren't enforcing it and you didn't read it

Is it a "review bomb" for complaining about a legit problem with the game that stops you from playing?

I don't think Helldivers would be considered AAA. Probably more like AA.

My issue with this one wasn't that it promised anything, the game was launched normally it was enjoyable and then they pulled this crap.

Don’t capitulate to terrorists. If everyone stops playing and buying they will reverse course.