False. This is both the first world brigade's fault and Sony's.
became an issue because of the backlash of implementing again the requirement of the psn account 3 month after launch, but with that backlash sony learned that there could be legal issues if they implement this requirement in non supported psn countries so they I think are just cutting the problem before day one release
Mate if its your choice then thats fine but you see a lot of people don't care about choices too much. They just want to play X game even if it means breaking ToS. Iam sure a lot of us don't put our real age (in years) whenever an age gate page requires us which is breaking some terms probably but we don't care.
'Ultimately' doesn't matter without consequences for people in these countries.
Yeah that's definitely why. If people hadn't pointed it out for Helldivers they wouldn't have cared, they just went nuclear.
I think the main thing people want is a PSN account available in every non embargoed country.
Well in this case it might be for cross save and cross progression. It's optional for singleplayer but mandatory for online (Legends)
Honestly how is this any different than the dozens of other games that require 3rd party accounts to play on steam.
This is necessary but I highly doubt people in US/Europe care that much about those countries. They would probably rather have a choice
Those services aren't unavailable in a ton of countries/regions.
Those other 3rd party accounts are supported in a majority of countries unlike PSN so
I feel like this argument was always very disingenuous. While it's true they aren't *available*, people need to stop pretending they never lied on a checkbox in an online form.
PSN MAU is currently stagnant, and Sony has to convince shareholders that it's growing.
It's clearly something they want to work on for the long run in order to offer more PSN features to players outside their console ecosystem, why would they? People made it clear it wasn't ok to offer these games in regions that didn't have PSN support, so Sony is simply going along with that and avoiding potential bigger issues, plus avoiding another backlash in the future as people now are aware of the PSN requirements. Is it on them that PSN is not supported in many regions? Absolutely, but I imagine they'll be working on a solution and relist their PSN-linkable games as they get to that. People had the option of using a workaround, but they made it clear that they didn't want that, so this move makes sense.
Also don't understand this tbh. Another Japanese console manufacturer, Nintendo, manages it too, so why not Sony, which is even the bigger company of the two.
Doubt it. There is no reason for them to care in that instance, since their customers there don't do either. On PSN you first need to create an account (and potentially break their TOS if you live in an unsupported country) and after that can buy and access games, while on Steam you can (or could) first buy the game, but then not access the game, or certain parts of it.
Again, this is your opinion and choice. How you feel about this doesn't matter. You've helped (even a tiny percent) and Sony make it impossible for others in these smaller countries to play it legally.
People in those small countries are using PSN accs for years, but now they don't get a choice
The Joke is this topic which has been played by privileged people overblowing a simple account login for something minor as something they themselves do it all the time, 'lying about your age on every site that asks you', breaking its terms of service.
