PlayStation have finally come to their senses and rolled again quite a lot of the unpopular PC area locking that is been stopping of us in varied components of the world having fun with a bunch of video games. It seems like a kind of titles, Helldivers 2, might lastly be getting a cape gamers have craved for a 12 months or so because of this.
Yep, Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani has teased deploying the overview bomb-themed cape that first emerged as a meme following the backlash to PlayStation trying to vary the sport’s PSN account linking guidelines final 12 months. We have identified the cape was an actual merchandise the studio had made for some time now, however with the area locking nonetheless ongoing, Arrowhead have opted to maintain it locked away for months on finish.
Taking to Helldivers 2’s Discord server not lengthy after a mass elimination of nations from the restricted lists of a number of PlayStation-affiliated PC video games was noticed on June thirteenth, Jorjani wrote: “It was all our good associates at PlayStation”.
He went on to ask gamers to think about revisiting any unfavourable evaluations of the sport left solely due to the area locking controversy, writing: “It might be good if of us would change their overview on account of this. However it’s not a should should you don’t wanna. It’s a degree of satisfaction for the crew to see their onerous work acknowledged with the next person overview rating.” Glancing at Steam, it seems like quantity have completed simply that over the weekend.
Naturally, that acquired of us questioning whether or not they would possibly quickly be getting the overview bomb cape, with Jorjani responding to a query about it: “I’ll speak to the crew subsequent week. However we all the time felt it was one thing to offer away as soon as areas returned. PS has been working onerous on this so a cape to rejoice is so as.”
So, a garment that options the part of Steam’s evaluations graph displaying simply what number of of us had been taking out their PSN account linking frustrations on Helldivers 2 final Might sounds prefer it might lastly be incoming. When you’re questioning why this can be a thing people would want, my greatest reply is that the Helldivers 2 neighborhood loves in-joke, so came up with designs for the cape, then began correctly campaigning for it turn into an actual factor as soon as Arrowhead acknowledged these sketches.
When you’re curious as to what it’d seem like, here is a teaser Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt tweeted out simply over 13 months in the past, later confirming that the studio was simply ready for the correct time to launch it – principally, as soon as the area locking controversy was really over. Assuming it does lastly arrive, it’s going to positively be a becoming approach to commemorate an extended overdue change.
