Helldivers 2 has been out for a handful of months now—and it's been monstrously popular, so popular in fact that peoplevia the Helldivers 2 Steam page, players will have to create and link a PlayStation Network account beginning May 6:"Due to technical issues at the launch of HELLDIVERS™ 2, we allowed the linking requirements for Steam accounts to a PlayStation Network account to be temporarily optional. That grace period will now expire.
The grace period is longer than May 6, however—Steam users can expect to be prompted with an annoying login screen starting May 30, and will be required to have joined their accounts at the hip June 4. "All information provided during Account creation, and during the use of your Account, must be accurate and complete. We reserve the right to suspend, terminate or restrict any Account that uses or was created using false information." Further sections back this up, calling out regions of residence specifically.Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors.
"The statement wasn't ours," Twinbeard writes,"and that piece of important information was missing. As soon as we saw that we asked for more info and updates on some details for the linking."In a later message, Twinbeard added:"we need an official statement before doing so. Anything we say can will be picked up and can be misunderstood by players, media etc. We're replying to as much as we can, but for more info we're waiting for more info from Sony.