10 Times Developer Moves Backfired, Only for Them to Make A U-Turn

Inspired by Helldivers 2 and it’s Sony-led controversy to attach a PSN account to PC players, we’re looking at 10 instances when developers simply got it wrong. As an appendage to each entry though, we’re only including instances where the developer backtracks, but as you’ll see not every U-turn restores lost goodwill.

Helldivers 2 PSN account backtrack

Sony came within a hair’s breadth of tanking their runaway success of the year with the perplexing requirement for PC users to link a PSN account to Steam to play Helldivers 2. If you didn’t already own a PSN account it’d be mandatory to make one to carry on playing. Sony’s act of self-sabotage caused widespread discontent, of course, but was also set to lock players from the 177 countries without PSN access out of the game. Fortunately, Sony put their collective heads together and reversed the decision, review bombing was ceased with sales – now eclipsing 12 million – continuing.