I made this guide for one reason. I want to help minimize those who are getting screwed over by Sony's business decisions. I plan on putting the important bits first and some personal thoughts at the end, no need to read past the final picture unless you want to though biased as I may be I'd recommend it.

If your old enough to pay your own bills I know you've heard the saying before. Vote With Your Wallet. At the end of the day big corporations don;t care about words they care about money. That being said, you can help ensure Snoy (or any other objectively scum company) feels that Vote.

Step 1:

Start by going to the Helldivers 2 Store page.

Step 2

On the right hand side right above game tags you should a Developer (In this case Arrowhead) and a Publisher (in this case Snoy) click on the link for Snoy.


It should take you to the page for the Developer.

Step 3

On the right hand side should be a settings Cog Icon. Click it and you'll see the option to "Ignore This Creator". If you click this option it should show this following:


With that done no Snoy published games should appear on your Discovery Ques etc... if you want to undo this just follow the same steps again. This should greatly lessen the risk of ever buying a game requiring a PSN account again.

This is that personal thoughts bit I mentioned and if your reading, thanks!

I know this whole fiasco with PSN and Helldivers 2 has been a pain for most of us, that being said Id like to share some information as well as some of my reasoning regarding the situation.

I want to make it clear I want Snoy to walk back their decision and not require a PSN account. Its scummy regardless of your stance of it be "It only takes 2 mins and its free" or "Its a huge security risk and some people can't even make PSN accounts". Either way its a blatantly unnecessary bait and switch. "Oh but what if they need it to enforce bans!?" Its a PvE game firstly, and secondly simply make it so you had to have a PSN account to do cross play then everyone could be happy or at least play the game.

Now that being said, I did some research of my own. I will admit I am obviously not Steam nor Snoy, so take what I have to say with that in mind. From everything I've discovered it appears as if any Third Party account that links to your steam account only gets your Steam ID. Which can be looked up via your user name so its not exactly private info regardless. What it does (From my understanding) is allow said third party to give you a permanent name in their system. This is needed because as Im sure you know it is possible to change our basic Steam User Name as much as we want. Which is all Snoy is getting at the moment. Snoy wants to be able to control us in Helldivers 2 which is bad enough as it is. However the will not gain access to our steam accounts themselves nor our payment info etc... think about it even from a purely logical point why would steam allow ANYONE that kind of info it would lead to SO many lawsuits. I Dislike Snoy, in case that wasn't obvious, but you know what I dislike more? Snoy getting to Cut server space and save money because all the true Democracy loving Helldivers can't play anymore.

Make a throwaway email, you can even use it to throw shade a Snoy. Put in a fake DoB, the only thing else they ask for is a Zipcode so not to bad there and you can fake that to if you want.

Don't let Snoy take a single thing away from you, and never give them a single penny for another product again. *Assuming they don't change ofc.

Just my thoughts, love you all, For Super Earth.