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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

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Post by out_of_protocol »

flohofwoe wrote: post #6

I 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)

> Valve says that Steam is avaible in 237 countries. there are territories that are considered countries by valve that arent recognized by the world as being their own separate country like Taiwan

From Google, 2017.

Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

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Post by jeffalyanak »

apt-get wrote: post #13
kstenerud wrote: post #7

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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...

The company was founded by Americans, too, and throughout its history it's almost always had strong ties to the US.

Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

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Post by leoff »

d-z-m wrote: post #21

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I find the reaction to be appropriate, a large amount of people can't play the game anymore. What else would you expect? "I paid a considerable amount of money for the game and now I can't play it anymore, but the graphics were very nice on the small amount of time I played, 5 stars"?

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Post by Ferret7446 »

sigmoid10 wrote: post #4

This 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…

Why would the player count take a hit? The game is still playable, so people want to play the game until they can't anymore, assuming the decision isn't reversed.

The impact has not even happened yet, as the news was released a few days ago, just before the weekend; the majority of players are probably not even aware of it yet. After a week or two, we will see what the true impact really is.

Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

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Post by Dystakruul »

sigmoid10 wrote: post #4

This 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…

> the player count did not take any obvious hit

> on steam the delisting seems to have affected almost no active players

in most cases, if you bought a game on steam before it got delisted, you can still play it. even if you uninstalled it in between, you can re-download it.

the actual impact won't be fully visible until May 30th or June 4th since that's when they will start blocking access to the game for players who didn't link their accounts[1].

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/41968685...

Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

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Post by d-z-m »

leoff wrote: post #34
d-z-m wrote: post #21

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I find the reaction to be appropriate, a large amount of people can't play the game anymore. What else would you expect? "I paid a considerable amount of money for the game and now I can't play it anymore, but the graphics were very nice on the small amount of time I played, 5 stars"?

In hindsight my comment was ill-considered. I'm removing it.

Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

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Post by Vespasian »

sunaurus wrote: post #16

I've always found it ridiculous that Sony is allowed to sell their consoles and games in my county without allowing me to create a PSN account. They even sell the digital PS5, which REQUIRES a PSN account to get any games. And then, even if you break their TOS and create an account in another country, you're still constantly inconvenienced - you can't pay for games using your local payment method, for example, and a…

It's reasonable to ask for that and it would probably be up to a local government agency to enforce such a rule.

(In fact Meta's Quest was not available in my country for a few years until Meta changed their mind and removed the need to have a Facebook account as well).

To make Sony care about small countries it would be best for them to band together and act as a group on that. It must hurt them economically

Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

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Post by johncolanduoni »

croes wrote: post #15
unpopularopp wrote: post #3

I 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.

They get a cut of physical media sales too, and studios need their approval for each title they publish.

Re: Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

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Post by re-thc »

Caligatio wrote: post #2

As 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.

> they have to sit by and watch while their player base implodes because of a Sony edict.

Happens all the time. Sony is the publisher. A lot of publishers "ruin" games.

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