News inside jeuxvideo.com Mandatory connection is not an obligation – LaPetitePelle Dessine jeuxvideo.com N°525
It’s a new controversy that fueled our designer’s pencil this week. The mandatory PlayStation Network connection for PC players has left an indelible mark on the success story of Helldivers II. LaPetitePelle once again shows us her opinion, with as much humor as ever!
The war between PC and Sony
The controversy that plunged Helldiverse II in uncertainty finally ended well. However, when you think about it, these few days were really intense. Between the wave of disapproval from players, the community manager of Arrowhead Game Studios who deletes her Twitter account, the Community Manager of Helldivers II who sides with the players and turns his back on Sony, in short, so many events that happened very quickly. You can therefore imagine that it was impossible for LPP to miss this opportunity!
In five thumbnails, we can see the PlayStation 5, proud of its decision. She knows what she wants and doesn’t want to know or hear anything about possible disapproval. However, when the computer arrives, the console becomes disillusioned rather quickly and agrees to backtrack.. In fact, that’s actually how it happened, but it was much more complex than a simple dialogue, unfortunately.
Indeed, on the game’s Steam page, if we go back in time a little, we can see a graph that will not disappear anytime soon. A single decision Sony Interactive and everything collapsed. Almost 100,000 negative reviews in a single day, and more than 200,000 negative reviews in a few days, even the English term “review bombing” is an understatement… It’s unfortunate to have come to this, but as the computer says so well on the last page: “I’ve seen others.” PC gamers have won the battle and Sony went back.
Both sides lose
Did you think it was over? Yes, our designer offers you two news stories for the price of one! It’s the turn of the Xbox, more particularly of Microsoft, to pass under the pencil of LaPetitePelle. Indeed, it does not necessarily go better with the competitor of Sonybecause Microsoft decided to close four video game studios: Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog Games And Roundhouse Studios. They were the creators of games such as Prey, Hi-Fi Rushor Mighty Doom.
These four studios, which belonged to the stable Bethesda-ZeniMaxno longer have their place in a framework where Microsoft wishes to prioritize high-impact titles. Either it’s about Fallout 5 or Skyrim VI, does this really justify “playing with people’s lives” as our artist says so well? According to the company, this may be a necessary evil, but this is not the opinion of the players. They shared their opinions on social networks, each more scathing than the other. Some even went so far as to find Phil Spencer, the current president of Xbox Games StudiosIn Fallout 76 in order to bomb his base!