Could you explain then why they flock to Sweden, of all the places? It's not exactly known for its ruthless Ayn-Randish capitalism.

I can already pay with my debit or credit card for free, why the hell would I accept a 2% surcharge to pay with that junk?

Who said they won't "change their mind" somewhere down the road? It's obvious they are considering it and just telling me that they won't doesn't mean a thing. That would require me to actually trust Sony.

And at best, I'd thrust them. Into the sun.

But they at least had to import that problem, the US didn't even have to do that.

More like, we don't copy the content, we distort it to make it as outrageous as possible for more clicks.

Or, as it used to be known in more sensible times, conspiracy nuttery and the ramblings of idiots.

Whoever is the turd that kills someone over a turd.

This right there is why the rest of the world doesn't think the US is a civilized country. You really managed to get from barbary to decadence without the civilization detour.

You have never checked out "Hunt Down the Freeman", aka "Hunt down the Refund"?

By now, the reviews are mostly trolling, but trust me, it IS the worst game currently available on Steam.

Yes, it's US centric. It's the US that poke Russia and China about it, guess why they poke them and not the others.

Don't kill the messenger, I just tell you why the US isn't bothered with any of the other nuclear powers.

Ponzi schemes work best if you make sure they look like someone "important" invests in them, too.

What I "bitch" about is the wording. It's worded like you could, if you want to, for your own convenience, connect your Steam account with a PSN account. It nowhere informs you that this is the only option and that you have to open up your Steam account to their shabby security practices that pretty much amount to handing over your private information along with your credit card info to whatever ID thief that wants it.

Hmm. Interesting. On Steam, you get that information.

Maybe console gamers are too used to being ripped off and having their privacy violated that they can get away with something like that, I don't know.

I'm currently on the Steam page for Helldivers2. A search for "PSN" delivers 8 results, all of them in the reviews. A search for "Playstation" allows you to find "Playtation PC LLC" as the publisher, a ad link for "all the games by Playstation Studios", two more links for Publisher and Franchise, a link to the data protection shrink-wrap blurb on playstation.com, an epilepsy warning link on playtation.com and finally, in the area nobody would be looking for a line saying "requiring third party account Playstation Network (supports linking to Steam account)".

Emphasis mine.

What would the average user expect? That he may link to his Steam account for convenience.

What "supports" does not exactly convey is that such a link is mandatory.

Time to kick a game off the wishlist. It's way too long already anyway, a little cleanup is in order.

Well, 2 reasons.

First, the obvious one: Ubisoft tells you about this right out the gate. No Ubisoft-account, no playing. It was possible to play Helldivers2 'til now without a PSN account.

Second, and a direct result of the first one, people who don't want to jump through these hoops already don't buy Ubisoft games because they already know what's in store for them. They used to complain back when Ubisoft started this practice, and they don't complain anymore now. They just don't buy the junk, and I'm pretty sure a year from now, nobody will complain about Sony doing this anymore either. People will just add another company to the blacklist.