Review Bombers Were Even Attacking Other Games Made by Helldivers 2 Dev

Imagine being so petty that you have to chase an entire company, made up of people's livelihoods, just because you got inconvenienced by creating an account.

Show how stupid the internet can really be. Being upset is fine. But don’t take it out on things unrelated to it.

Should have apent that time creating an account 😂

@BeerIsAwesome people can just be terrible at that point 👉

Is this still a thing? Entitled gamers having a right old moan about anything and everything. I disable cross play because I just don't trust PC gamers not to cheat so in all honesty I could not care less about them even though I know not all of them are horror story's waiting to happen. Keep them separated.

Reflective of the childish overreaction by most. There was a real issue with those outside of PSN serviced countries potentially not being able to play but the real backlash was by those mildly inconvenienced and then acting outraged that their data could be scraped. Absolute babies about it.

@Northern_munkey "Is this still a thing? Entitled gamers having a right old moan about anything and everything."

This will unfortunately never stop being a thing. Gamers, like most humans on the internet, are generally awful.

Some life these people are living

People ARE review bombing Magicka 2 as well! Fortunately some people have taken to giving it positive reviews to try and offset the unjustified negative reviews.

@PS3Gamer Surely the review bombing on HD2 was enough to do that though, why attack unrelated titles? They've also review bombed their other games on Steam too, it's uncalled for. (Gauntlet and Magicka 2 have review bombing now, I've checked)

Childish and pathetic that's the words that first came to mind reading this. They probably don't want a psn sign in because they have pirated copies. There is no need for this reaction.

Pathetic. I can understand the upset from players in those countries that aren't serviced by PSN, but for the rest... grow up. You didn't mind signing up for a Rockstar Games account, Epic account for the freebies, EA play, Steam, Game Pass and the other countless accounts you need to sign up for to play on your PC. Let's face it, you don't like Sony encroaching in your "Master Race" world.

@Drago201 Pretty much. Half the review bombs say that the PSN gets hacked all the time. It got hacked once, by a bunch of people who got salty that Sony sued a guy who hacked the hardware of the PS3. Perhaps if someone were to Google "Microsoft hack" right now, they'll see some articles about a series of hacks against Microsoft. But that's okay, because Uncle Phil is basically a god to PC gamers.

@BecauseBecause Ironic then that Magicka 2 has absolutely nothing to do with Arrowhead. The first one was made by them, however. But PC gamers weren't known for their intelligence.

@BeerIsAwesome oh damn, i just realised I was looking at magicka 1 on steam, although a few review bombs are on the second one.

@BeerIsAwesome In the interest of fairness I just want to link this - https://firewalltimes.com/sony-data-breach-timeline/

They've been hacked more than once, but it's completely irrelevant to this conversation anyway. It was used as a focal point to support the pathetic outrage of the loudest and dumbest complainers. Some would have known that creating an account would contain nothing of interest in a worst case scenario, but most latched on to it completely uneducated on the matter.

Microsoft's breaches by the way - https://firewalltimes.com/microsoft-data-breach-timeline/

Though as you said, there's complete silence on every required account creation for them.

@Intr1n5ic Thanks for those links, sincerely. There's some interesting reading there. Ultimately if we were to list every company that had had a data breach, we wouldn't have enough space in a text box. Not sure what that says about modern society.

I think it's all a bit silly. Children, no matter the age of them. We are in an age where we no longer own the cassette, we get continual updates to keep games top line and a request to have a psn for metrics and whatnot isn't a world killer. You can't buy an EA game off steam, even single player, without them needing you to login. Rockstar are worse.
If you don't like it stick to console gaming. You sign in there too but less invasive.

Wow, PC players are just pathetic. I've never seen anyone throw their dummy out of the pram as hard as these guys.

Looks like the babies got what they wanted.

https://www.ign.com/articles/playstation-reverses-course-on-helldivers-2-psn-account-requirement

PC nerds. I hope they all get the sh its

Generally speaking, review bombing is childish. Maybe the majority that did this are children with underdeveloped brains.

Welcome to the PCMR... the PC Moron Race. (And yes, before anyone objects... I also game on PC.)

Imagine being that petty over creating an account... something which shouldn't have been any surprise, because the game's Steam page told you it would be necessary. If you didn't read or didn't see it, that's on you, and maybe Steam for not making it more obvious.

Now, I get that some people won't be able to do so easily because PSN isn't available in their region, but let's not forget the fact that lots of people have been creating PSN accounts for regions other than their actual location for many years, sometimes for things as trivial as a free avatar image; it is possible to work around it. Many people have accounts for Europe, the US, and Japan.

The rest of the people are just being petty and idiotic. I've had to create numerous accounts over the years on services I don't otherwise use, whether it's been a requirement or just optional to get the most out of games. I have accounts with EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Rockstar, Krafton... probably more I can't even remember... none of which I use regularly, and none of which serve any significant purpose beyond the one game they were created for.

Grow a pair, get over it, move on.

@UltimateOtaku91 If that's the case, let's see if all those perfectly rational people now go and also do the right thing by deleting their negative reviews. 🤔

Never underestimate the power of petulant gamers with nothing better to do than wield the power of their parents' internet connection to wreak havoc upon the world of gaming reviews.

Yeah, I think the reaction was embarrassing and pathetic.

Now this, this is getting a little pathetic 😂
I honestly understand the grievances but it's clear that some get way too caught up in internet dogpiles just for the sweet dopamine hit that a sense of mob 'community' gives.

It's certain journalists and YouTubers, like the Jimquisition (he's a knob), who blow things up and FEED off of stirring up people's anger to make a living. PushSquare have done it recently with certain games too 👀 and I'm not saying there's you shouldn't push back against things like this but the unnecessary vitriol is instigated by these same 'ol stirrers.

PC "Master Race" of immature snowflakes.

I am ashamed being a gamer……

Gaming 2024 in a nutshell

All I can say is these people that review bomb are sad petty little p*****

Damn these pc gamers are just as bad as the mods on push square

@TheAmbienWalrus oh oh careful for misgendering jim, the mods here are full in on the propaganda

How do people have so much free time?