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Helldivers 2 gets delisted in more countries without PSN access, blindsided devs call for it to be "available worldwide" | Gamesrader

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Helldivers 2 gets delisted in more countries without PSN access, blindsided devs call for it to be "available worldwide"

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1y ago

Helldivers 2 gets delisted in more countries without PSN access, blindsided devs call for it to be "available worldwide" | Gamesrader

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My review stays negative until super earth is liberated.
Do you have the strength and courage to be free?
- They don't care as long as you're playing
  
  Which is why I stopped. Fallout 76 was like $8. It's actually not too bad. Now.
  
  I stopped because after around 30 hours it felt the same. It’s fun but eventually one grows tired of shooting bugs
- Saying that will get you banned from the helldivers sub.
  
  What is this "sub" you speak of? You use funny words, funny man.
Pray that I don’t alter the deal further.
Sony's always kind of been uncool like this. Before, all PSN games weren't available on PC, so it didn't affect regions that couldn't register for PSN.
Guess they'll have to take it up with the overlords
I love this thing where buying something has been replaced by buying an alterable, revokable license to access that thing. It lowers costs and adds flexibility for producers, which allows them to save money, and they pass that savings on to me in the form of higher prices and my shit that I paid real fucking money for just disappearing one day. Then they explain that I never really "owned" it despite the fact that they use the word "own" in the marketing material, because it's also legal to use words that have known definitions in agreements and then later explain that you were actually using an entirely different, secret definition of that word that's actually the opposite of what you very purposefully implied.
It makes sense to delist games you can't play in another country due to not being able to make an account so that someone doesn't buy your game and then go for an automatic refund after finding out they can't play it, but still a dick move.
- They rolled back the PSN requirement though
  
  For now
Funny how many gamers fall for their good cop bad cop ploy. Fuck both of them.
- Except Arrowhead isn't some sony-owned subsidiary studio, whose every statement is little more than puppetry.
  They are an independently owned company, in a publishing deal with Sony.
  By sabotaging the product like this, Sony is straight up stabbing them in the back as a business partner.
  Sony can survive botching a game. Arrowhead might not. They're being polite, but if I was at Arrowhead, I would be fucking livid with Sony right now.
  Their supposed sponsor, a rich entity with more than enough capital, is literally trying to risk their lunch because it wants even more.
  
  They signed a contract with Sony saying they'd require PSN to play the game. They knew this would be a requirement. It's not like PSN suddenly isn't available worldwide. They were fine with the deal until players got upset and now they want out of the deal to save face.
  
  The PSN account being mandatory was always a thing. The only reason why it wasn't implemented was technical issues at launch.

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