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Holy F, what a smooth brain move. They had an IP with incredible goodwill that would have been printing money forever (think about DLCs and merchandise, maybe even a TV series), and they chose to destroy all that to increase the active PSN account numbers by <1%. Which doesn’t even have a direct financial benefit, just something they can peacock in their quarterly reports, trying to boost the stock price.
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Wonder how we should interpret the country "XD" being on the list. As far as I can tell its never been used for any real country.
XD is Dubai (separate from the United Arab Emirates).
Imagine if palworld devs create a copy of this one among all the ruckus
Isn't that just Deep Rock Galactic?
I'd be down to give Hellpals a try.
Paldivers?
Heckjumpers
~~Managed Democracy~~
Wholesome Anarchy
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The accounts are so important that you're willing to lose sales in that many countries?!
To be fair, the game wasn't supposed to be sold in those countries to begin with. Sony and Valve screwed up the region settings.
But it was, so who is going to take responsibility for it? Is Sony going to back down from the requirement? Is Valve going to refund all those users?
Honestly, I think Sony is going to be more stubborn than Valve. I saw in another thread where some people were getting approved for their Steam refunds even after passing the 2-hour refund window, so it looks like Valve may already be the first to cave.
Sony's probably going to continue digging their heels in, though.
Can confirm, saw one approved refund with 97 hours on the clock.
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While 177 countries sounds like a lot, it's not where the majority of players are. PSN operates in the top 15 countries by GDP and the top 4 by population.
Of course there's still the question of why they work in so few countries when literally none of their competitors (that I know of) have those limitations.
PSN (PlayStation Network) is available in 73 countries.
It was PSNow (PlayStation Now, their game steaming service) that was only in 19 countries. PSNow was merged into PlayStation Plus as the Premium level package, and is in 30 or so countries.
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It's because it's a Japanese company. I'm not saying this out of racism but because they're known for being archaic in how they do certain things. Like game modding and work schedules. Their public transit is top fucking notch though.
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some huge countries on that list, philippines, pakistan, nigeria, egypt
pretty embarassing
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Lmao, this was such a panic reaction by sony that they've banned all US territories as well multiple countries where PSN is active.
They are so cooked that this isn't even funny.
They should start working on a helldivers 3 and self publish it, barely change anything. (assuming they own the ip ofc)
I'm sure they don't.
Screw it, go make the actual Starship Troopers game not suck. That thing is in dire need of help.
DellHivers
Div3rz of Hell
DillPicklers2
Will...that was fun.
RIP Helldivers 2.
Yikes
What a disaster this is for absolutely no reason.
Wym no reason? Exec bonuses will be great this quarter
Just corporate greed for more of you data to sell.
Well now it seems they've become the dog with two bones
This one made me wonder if they don't get telemetrics about how people are playing the game to improve the game (or build a new game) from without doing this. And if that same data would be valuable to data brokers in general or if it's more valuable as an internal trade secret.
They already have this data to improve the game. They basically have a DM watching everything and managing play. This is just for Sony.
Yes, it would be just for Sony to get it; not meaning to say it isn't collected at all by the developer. Before this, I would have thought they'd share that with the publisher (this case Sony) anyway.
I'm sure they do. I mean this is for Sony to pad their numbers for active paying accounts.
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