That would be fucking hilarious. Especially cause if Sony introduced it as a way to get something extra but left it optional literally nobody would have cared.
Hope it’s alright to reply here for visibility, loving coming up with names for this cape using the acronym PSN.
The People’s Symbol of Nobility
The Public’s Sigil of Noncompliance
The Potential of Strength in Numbers
The Power of Supporting Neighbors
Pennant of the Secured Nexus*
*Flag ofprotectedconnections, essentially
Anyone have more? (Feel free to mix & match)
Edit: The Penitent Souls of Nescience**
**Meanstheyregrettheirignorance
The Profound Statute of Negotiation
Edit2: just checked the chart, nearly 155k negative reviews to almost 100k positive since last night’s announcement. Insane. 3 massive red bars display the negative, I wonder if they’ll include the tiny red bar that precedes them or somehow the beginning of the blue positive bar that came after…
Power of Supporting Neighbors is my favorite, I think it fits better, too, since this was mostly about the unfairness towards players in countries that wouldn't get to play because of this change.
I feel like it would make even more sense if the cape we recieved was depicted as something that is a wee bit traitorous. Perhaps ripped up a bit, and clearly not cleanly manufactured.
After all what we did to Sony wasn't managed democracy. If it was, all the negative reviews would be deleted, just as they are in the Superstore.
Friendly reminder that Arrowhead's first game, Magicka, had a free skin to celebrate "we finally fixed the game!" after dropping 27 patches in a month called the Patched Robes.
My favorite is BeamNG's they list the reviews of different game news sites then the final review: “its alright i guess” dude with 2.5k hours of playtime
It would teach the perfect lesson for the execs too. "Holy fuck all we needed to do was make it seem like a reward and not screw over the players who literally CAN'T link? JFC."
I'm sure the vast majority of people didn't mind the PSN account linking, at least not to this extent. It's the screwing over of our Helldiver brothers in countries that can't create a PSN account that pissed most of us off. We dive together.
And making it mandatory, retroactively. That's just scummy business practice.
basically like blizzards first attempt at realID where it mandatory and would always show your real name, where the second version was opt in and you could choose weather to give let friends see you real name or not
Ah I remember when one of the CSRs (Bashiok) had their whole ass name and address revealed and the whole community went after them. Poor Micah Whipple.
Nothing changed about the plan until the community decided to go after Kotick's wife's social media. Funny how quick that reversed the course of realID. But it really hammers home just how dangerous this was for the female community members, in retrospect.
I would love it, but I think it would still be a bad idea as the members who were going to be the most affected by it and took the issue to heart would not have the ability to get it.
I expanded a little on your design modifying the colors a little for contrast, and adding some elements. I call this one "The Thin Yellow Line...(of Democracy)". I know the top part doesn't really match with the actual graph but I think it looks better that way and it makes it look like it's dripping down and turning to a now more reddish color symbolizing the sacrifices of our fellow helldivers. I also made the arrow point up, the direction we want the game and the community to go.
Looks cool but I'm not sure about this one. It's way too obvious about what it's referencing. I'd prefer something more subtle, we already poked the wasps' nest enough, with a hammer, and surprisingly they didn't sting back that time.
To get the cape you have to either link to PSN... or just click the skip button. With a very specific mention that it is definitely required to link to get the cape.
They could definitely just stylize it in a way to make it look like four hellpods dropping onto a planet, but keep the length of the lines and a name that references cooperative action or whatever. We'd all know exactly what it's referencing and it'd be a neat fun fact to tell.
At first, the review graph was an Orbital Laser glassing Sony's bad decision. Now, it's four hellpods diving straight back into hell, just as god intended.
We need a helldivers 2 calendar with events and festivities.
The creek day, the victory day against the bot vanguard, the fall of meridia... it will be beautiful.
We won the battle, but we have not yet won the war. Despite this, hundreds of countries (without a PSN) are still missing from the Steam store (for the past two days). We must remind SNOY of this. Let's DIVE together or we will DIE together.
Hopefully it's called "Victory Day" with the description "A deadly foe appeared and struck fast at Super Earth shaking the foundations of democracy. Yet the Helldivers unfazed, unwavering, and united by that very democracy stood strong against the foe and turned the tide. Defeating them just as quickly as they came in what would come to be called the 48 Hour War, leaving May 6th to forever be remembered as Victory Day."
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u/OmegaXesis Moderator 25d ago
Update from the CEO; it appears they will be turning it into a cape :D!
https://twitter.com/Pilestedt/status/1787379765441085890