I assume if Valve has to expend effort handling refunds, it's best not to sell (or treat them the same way in the store) products in regions where it could cause issues.
this is basically FUD and is about as likely to happen as sony shutting down PSN entirely. can you point to one instance of them doing this ever when expanding to a new territory?
That won't happen because I've already been on that end of the stick--there was no regional PSN at the beginning here where I live so I have to make one with another country's address, and when there finally was one, I made a new one with the right address too. And now I've maintained both for well over a decade. Stop making nonexistent boogeymans.
Not really, if you are willing to create an account from a supported region and link it with that. Yes, it is breaking their TOS technically, but they never went after these accounts, I have one myself. It's still better than delisting it over this, especially a game like Ghost of Tsushima were the multiplayer mode is secondary.
What iam saying is that whatever happened, it probably happened with permission of Sony. Especially if the game is blocked from activation/purchose in those countries not supported in PSN's ToS.
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They don't need to have a stranglehold in the PC industry to have the leverage that they have. I would argue that actually gives them MORE leverage, seeing as they really don't have to put it on the platform at all. It's just a difference of cash flow in a particular direction. Hell, this could give them cold feet on the PC market as a whole.
This is a misunderstanding of what actually happened from what I remember. It was always required but it was never enforced, even on day one. People have stated how they just clicked on Skip and it never prompted them again.
If it doesn't matter where your account is located, why are those regions delisted on Steam?
You are joking right? The point is I don't think they ever actually enforced the stated requirement.
because gamers threw the biggest of shitfits, review bombed the game and were requesting refunds?
it's not that they won't catch you, it's that sony does not care. people have been doing it for decades. sony will be happy to sell you games, they just don't want the business hassle of formally setting up support for your region.
That would be nice, but again those of us who'd been in that situation have had to make do just fine. The problem is the people propping that "no PSN in these countries" as an excuse weren't the ones from said countries, they were just co-opting that reasoning. And now screwed over the people from said countries, who weren't even complaining in the first place.
The entire thing is a lesson in what not to do. It's hilariously bad.
Im sure this will blow over with some sort of solution and people will continue to be weird about anything that encroaches on Steam's ownership of PC.
Which is why until they figure this stuff out Sony shouldn't be selling their games that require PSN account linking in areas that do not have PSN support. That seems to be what they did here.
It's probably to not allow anyone a refund to those outside those regions. Now there's a clear divide in who could have issues with requiring a PSN account. Instead of most people who are whining about needing one in a non affected region when it was clearly labeled one would be required.
Should all come with a mandatory cross progression (for stuff you buy with the monopoly money they all sell anyway, I can understand even if they wanted to do it with real money store purchases the platform holders will probably just tell them to fuck off).
All Microsoft Online Services are unavailable in Cuba, Iran, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Sudan, and Syria.
Newsflash: Many people from affected countries do know this and have done exactly that. Hell, where I live, official third party Sony retailers even had guides on how to make PSN accounts from a different country. Stop making it as if people haven't been doing this for nearly two decades now.
Its a fun game is all im saying 😂. People will want to jump back in after running fort for the millionth time.
Problem as stated in previous pages seems to be Valve is liable for selling a product that is not officially supported in those countries. Hence the delisting.
Yes, it's an infrastructure issue from publishers. But let's be real here. These are the same capital G Gamers who manipulated Steam's regional prices to get games for cheap and ended up causing prices to go way up because devs were losing money from people doing that, AGAIN screwing over people who actually are from those countries.
I'm betting people are going to be jumping back in as soon as another faction is dropped. The game regardless of the support was starting to get a bit stale for many people.
Week over week, player count is down over 30%. Which appears to be significantly more than previous weeks from what I can tell. People are quitting the game.
The PC gamers that came from those affected countries would know this.
