Some players of Helldivers 2 they launched a petition on change.org to ask Arrowhead the re-hiring of the community manager fired from the company, known as “Spitz”, following the fiasco of Sony’s attempt to force PC users to register accounts on the PlayStation Network to play games, causing quite a few problems in some territories where it is not possible to create them.
Sony specifically asked to connect the Steam account to a PSN account, but after the popular uprising obtained as a response, with catastrophic effects such as hundreds of thousands of negative reviews on Steam, took a step back.
One of those who paid the greatest price was Spitz himself for his encouragement to users to continue bombarding negative reviews on Steam to put pressure on Sony and convince it to rethink its strategy: “Players expressing their dissent through reviews, refund requests and more give us more momentum in discussions with Sony,” he wrote at the time, “It hurts to see the game’s popularity suffer, but the discussions are underway and our team stands with the players in this fight.” Evidently someone must not have taken it well and asked for and obtained her head.
The petition
This is where the petition was born”RE-HIRE THE LEGENDARY COMMUNITY MANAGER GENERAL SPITZ“, which we can translate into “summarize the legendary community manager general Spitz”, which first of all retraces the story of the PSN accounts for Helldivers 2, then the role played by Spitz in the dispute and his having always been on the side of the community, even in the face of such a large and dangerous enemy. According to the text, it is precisely because of this encouragement from him that “many of us did not ask for a refund.” Hence the request: “Arrowhead: We implore you to return this icon to the position he held in recognition of his courageous community management strategy, which not only worked, but has restored the faith of many.”
Spitz’s canonization is also requested in mythology of Helldivers 2, naturally “for freedom, for democracy, for the good of the game and its community.”
At the time of writing this news, the petition, launched by user Elcorvo Loco, has collected 5,246 signatures, with the next target set at 7,500. We’ll see where it arrives in the next few days.
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