Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries.

Remember the people suggesting to change the Hell Divers negative reviews because Sony listened?

They have learned nothing

Steam is like the only company that I actually somewhat trust

Steam has got to be considering blacklisting them as a publisher over this. This is so, so dumb.

I hope they bill Sony ten times of what they are losing out on now. They need to set a precedent that no other publisher will want to repeat what Sony did.

I'm not in an affected country, nor did I plan to play multiplayer, but I still removed it from my wishlist and decided to boycott all titles requiring a PSN account. If you want to have some option but annoying account service, fine. I can survive clicking the X on that. But if they push this hard then we know they'll push this onto all games next.

Companies whinge about piracy yet they incentivise it with their shitty practices

Dang, why do they love to ruin the good will they collected.

Good guy Steam.

Sony could resolve this by allowing any country to register an account, but they don't lol

Good guy Steam ensuring that people with peg legs, hook hands, and eyepatches get that 100% disability discount

i swear to fucking god if they do this with horizon

The single player game??

Sony: You people don't have normal passports?

Maybe this is a hot take, but… I kinda understand not selling a product in a country where nobody in your org knows the laws or speaks the language.

3-person indie teams self-publishing can skate past, cuz they’ve got nothing to lose and can’t spend time triaging crashes due to unicode chars and weird keyboard layouts even if they wanted to. Big companies have to decide what’s worth the risk and the potential demands on their time.

Sucks, but it is what it is.