Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
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Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
#2As a Helldivers 2 PC player who also owns a PS5, this new requirement doesn't bother me personally.
However, adding a requirement (it was previously optional) is boneheaded, maybe illegal. It must be terrible to be Arrowhead; they have to sit by and watch while their player base implodes because of a Sony edict.
Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
#3I hope one day the EU will go
after Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. If iOS is a walled garden then consoles are prison.
Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
#4This really sucks for some people, but the true impact may be overreported and is definitely blown out of proportion by the review bombing. While all this is hugely controversial on reddit, if you look at steam charts, the player count did not take any obvious hit. In fact it follows the natural trend after every content release. So at least on steam the delisting seems to have affected almost no active players. It's very possible that whoever is responsible looked at the data, saw the true player numbers from those 100 countries and decided it was worth taking the L in favour of tightening the online service to make future development easier. Especially since this "requirement" was in there already from the beginning, they just didn't enforce it (likely because they never thought the game would see this much success).
Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
#5As a Helldivers 2 PC player who also owns a PS5, this new requirement doesn't bother me personally. However, adding a requirement (it was previously optional) is boneheaded, maybe illegal. It must be terrible to be Arrowhead; they have to sit by and watch while their player base implodes because of a Sony edict.
Requirement was always there, just not enforced due to „technical issues”.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231207163847/https://store.ste...
> „Requires 3rd-Party Account: PlayStation Network”
However, making it purchasable from countries not supported by PSN accounts was big error on their part.
Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
#6I wonder why the number of countries doesn't add up.
PSN is available in 73 out of 195 countries, while Steam is available everywhere.
Shouldn't that put the number of countries where the game isn't available anymore at 122 instead of 177?
(not that it matters much in practice of course)
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#8Sorry, I lack context, what happened?
Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
#9This really sucks for some people, but the true impact may be overreported and is definitely blown out of proportion by the review bombing. While all this is hugely controversial on reddit, if you look at steam charts, the player count did not take any obvious hit. In fact it follows the natural trend after every content release. So at least on steam the delisting seems to have affected almost no active players. It's…
> ...in favour of tightening the online service to make future development easier.
I really doubt that there is a single technical reason behind the decision, it's more likely that it has been enforced by Sony business peeps.
Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
#10This really sucks for some people, but the true impact may be overreported and is definitely blown out of proportion by the review bombing. While all this is hugely controversial on reddit, if you look at steam charts, the player count did not take any obvious hit. In fact it follows the natural trend after every content release. So at least on steam the delisting seems to have affected almost no active players. It's…
> ...in favour of tightening the online service to make future development easier. I really doubt that there is a single technical reason behind the decision, it's more likely that it has been enforced by Sony business peeps.
There is no business reason to cut down your own market unless it comes with additional expenses due to technical reasons. I'm pretty sure someone weighed these numbers again after the game's huge upgrades in infrastructure due to its unexpected success and decided differently this time.