Sweet liberty, are Helldivers 2 players not happy about having to link their Steam accounts to the PlayStation hive mind

Helldivers 2 is going to make you link your PlayStation Network account—and boy, are liberty's finest upset about it. If you dare to venture into the game's Discord server at the time of writing, you'll find the place is thoroughly on fire, with timeouts being issued left and right. 

As a recap in case you didn't see the news earlier: Helldivers 2 will require you to link your Steam account to PlayStation Network starting May 6, though said requirement will roll out piecemeal. By May 30 Steam users will be confronted with a login screen, and by June 4 they'll absolutely, 100% need to register.

This move, Sony claims, is to «protect players from griefing» among other 'benefits'—and was only ever delayed thanks to the state of Helldivers 2's servers at launch. Here's the proper rundown of the change—or, more accurately, reinstatement—in policy. For now though, let's turn our gaze towards the community.

First up, people are—understandably—worried about region locks. PSN serves around 69 countries at the moment which, as you might have put together, is not all of them. From where I'm sitting this whole debacle is mostly just irritating, and a great example of Sony putting its foot in it, but this is by far the most legitimate worry surrounding the controversy.

Considering players from these countries will have previously been able to play the game—and could have, reasonably, missed the section on the game's store page that said it required a PSN account—it's a nightmare customer service issue. If you lie about it, Sony is technically within their rights to ban you, according to its Terms of Service.

«Sony MUST find a solution for this and it can't be: Lie about your credentials and risk that we might ban your helldivers account,» writes one player calling attention to the issue on the game's subreddit. «What an absolute clusterf*ck», adds their fellow diver—blunt, but by no means incorrect.

The game's been thrown into the grinder on Steam, too. Over the course of one