You need a local payment method for that (i.e. a credit card), and these aren't exactly easy to get in countries with PSN for those who are not residents of such countries.
How did the helldivers situation affect you personally? I'm curious as to what exactly are you glad for?
I'm glad people didn't buy a game and then Sony try to revoke their access after the fact.
They didn't revoke their access, They just addressed the issue in the worst way possible by creating a bigger issue for new buyers.
Sony TRIED to revoke access to players in countries without PSN by requiring to link Helldivers 2 to PSN. Their intention wasn't to revoke access, but it would have been the outcome.
right but previously it was easy for people in unsupported regions to make a free PSN account for a different country. technically "against the TOS" but not difficult or enforced. it's not so easy to make an entire steam account for a different country
Fair, But they still literally made it worse. It's not something to be glad for.
I doubt its a bigger issue, just go online to the toxic spheres of social media or forums where the helldiver backlash originated, there is literally 0 backlash or at least nothing "noisy" , people its like "oh, 170 countries delisted, BAD SONY, ok bye" nothing comparable to the helldivers 2 backlash, so for people that complained this is a non issue
Bigger issue for people where PSN isn't supported. should have been more specific on that one.
The image is not even correct right now since baltic states (part of the EU) are also excluded.Bigger issue for people where PSN isn't supported. should have been more specific on that one.
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People in these countries can't play a game at launch that is a fucking single player game with an optional Co Op mode.
The PSN account isn't required for anything but the multiplayer. It's wild to me that Sony is still so behind in this, but they're now following the rules. Don't sell games in regions that don't support PSN when part of your game requires it.
What is this response?
It's easy to do the first thing and less so to do the second. Pretty sure creating an out-of-region Steam account requires a VPN. Would payment even work? And who wants to have their library split like that?
It's a curious case as CD Keys specifically (still) states that it can be activated in my country. They really need to make sure.
This.
Did you really just write "Rich multibillion dollar megacorporations like Sony are never going to do the right thing and always going to try to harvest as much consumer data as possible for their own benefit unless they encounter significant push-back, therefore … Sony's actions here are the fault of non-billionaire individual consumers for attempting to push Sony into dropping said requirement, who ruined everything".
pretty obvious whas sony´s decision since they are the ones who can decide if delist or not a game in certain region, they are the ones who need to fix this region restriction issue, they cant ask for people to create and log in with a psn account if the psn account isnt even supported in that restricted region... who here thought it was steam decision? lolSomeone on reddit got confirmation that it was Sony's decision to delist Helldivers
This is so absurd.Someone on reddit got confirmation from Steam support that it was Sony's decision to delist Helldivers
But if the PSN login isn't required/necessary, then why bother delisting? It makes more sense for Steam to not allow a game to be sold where features can't be accessed due to the country a person resides, which sounded like the case going by this:
Yes I really did write that because thats how the reality works for non privileged people.
or...the multi billion dollar and leader of the console gaming could have expanded their network and support to the rest of the planet and avoided this whole mess in the first place.
I've already talked about this sentiment in that response. Putting it all on the company is an extremely convenient excuse for someone having a privileged life and brigadding against something simply because they don't want to make an account for a Live service game.
Unless you have some idea how to get thousands of players to agree to not complain I really don't understand how you can be more upset with them over Sony. Any publisher forcing a sign in/launcher after launch is going to face predictable backlash. When Sony announced their plan I don't see how anyone could have predicted it would end up with people losing access entirely.
