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Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
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#22I hope one day the EU will go after Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. If iOS is a walled garden then consoles are prison.
You don't need to buy from MSs, Sony's or Nintendo's store to play a game on their consoles. There was no way for iOS except Apple's App store.
...unless you have an "all digital" console like the Xbox S.
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This Japanese stereotyping would be a little more credible if Sony Entertainment's headquarters hadn't moved to California years ago...
HQ location means nothing. It's still being controlled by Tokyo. If Anything, SE will be the sacrificial lamb that will be used to be sent to the slaughter house.
They did this with the mobile division in Sweden. Blame, cut and relocate.
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#24As 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.
Unenforced rules are a murky area. It's not as clear-cut as you suggest.
Another issue that has been raised is that Sony is notoriously incompetent with customer data.
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This Japanese stereotyping would be a little more credible if Sony Entertainment's headquarters hadn't moved to California years ago...
You mean Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Entertainment's HQ is in New York.
Both have a Japanese CEO, we blame Musk for Twitter's faults, so we blame them for PlayStation's.
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#26Sorry, I lack context, what happened?
A multiplayer game that's very successful on Steam - but published by Sony - suddenly has a requirement to have both a Steam and PSN account in order to log into the game - a couple of months after the game was released. As a PC gamer I would be pissed too tbh (on the other hand, it's the same bullshit that Ubisoft pulls for their games released on Steam).
The somewhat bigger issue is that PSN doesn’t support all countries that Steam does apparently.
In the end I suspect affected players will get a refund.
It isn’t as big a deal as the gamers are making it seem.
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#27Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe somebody at Sony needs to push those PSN user numbers up to get ahead in the rat race.
How would removing players from steam push their numbers? Especially since it is obvious from the charts that the removed countries contributed almost nothing to the active playerbase?
Every Helldivers 2 player on Steam needs to create a Playstation Network account now, even if they don't own a Playstation. Without PSN account Steam users won't be able to play the game in a couple of days.
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Do. This is predatory, go play a different game.
Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
#30Sorry, I lack context, what happened?
A multiplayer game that's very successful on Steam - but published by Sony - suddenly has a requirement to have both a Steam and PSN account in order to log into the game - a couple of months after the game was released. As a PC gamer I would be pissed too tbh (on the other hand, it's the same bullshit that Ubisoft pulls for their games released on Steam).
And not just that. They required PSN accounts on countries where PSN is not available (and using a VPN to create it goes against the ToS, and people get banned). So in those countries they have effectively banned you from playing the game you purchased weeks ago.