The censored one is probably Niger
I don’t know what a PSN account is, but I’m surprised you can get one in North Korea.
Sony Account (PlayStation Network account)
I’ve always wondered how much we are lied to about North Korea.
Wasn’t Valve the one who pointed out that Russia was always pirating games not because they were inherently pirates but because the game releases had zero support for Russia lol. Hence why Valve was the first foreign developer/publisher that gained an actual foothold in the Russian market.
This is kind of like the same thing. Sony will just say something dumb like “we don’t allow PSN accounts in these countries because they’re full of pirates”.
The second problem is absence of regional prices in other markets but Steam.
They are selling games two (!!) or so times cheaper in RU region. For example, AAA game might cost 60 dollars or 6000 rub in US but it will costs 35 or 3500 rub in russian steam.
Even though I couldn’t afford games in the past and pirated them - at some point I started buying stuff just because it gives much better, hustle -free experience.
If I’m low on cash, I pirate. When I have cash, I buy up the games I want. If it’s a game I enjoyed years ago and it’s on sale, I grab it.
The idea that piracy results in lost sales is flawed. No one I know who pirates can purchase the game to begin with.
Is a library piracy? No? Cool, discussion over.
I mean… Saying that it doesn’t result in lost sales at all is disingenuous.
They aren’t losing 70 dollars for every download, but they also aren’t losing zero.
That rings true for me. Only stopped pirating once steam was an option, myself.
They’re about to be full of pirates.
100% true. India is (or was?) also big for games just not being sold there.
Game companies shooting themselves in the foot? Never heard of it.
Isn’t this illegal according to EU law? It’s a common market but the Baltic states are excluded.
Yes it is
Overseas territories like French Guyana too. It’s fully part of France so you can’t exclude it like that.
It’s not even an overseas territory, it’s a full-fledged department of France. They couldn’t exclude it even if they wanted. And it’s not excluded in the map, if you look closely, even while Guyana and Surinam are.
Why can’t these countries get accounts? And what was the controversy?
Game is locked to PSN account system now so if you live somewhere with no PSN support, tough shit
Why are there so many overseas territories in there? No wonder so many people are pissed off
lmao Niger is blocked out
internet censorship is fucking retarded
I’m surprised Nigeria survived the censor
Yeah, ♡♡♡♡♡ian princes will be mad disappointed.
BTW, cool meta-use of removed internet censorship to illustrate your point.
BTW, cool meta-use of removed internet censorship to illustrate your point.
They wrote out the r-slur. I assume your instance filtered it.
Oh, I thought they wrote the
*removed*text verbatim… My bad.
Sweet they let the DPRK join in
I know Sony is a Japanese company but Iran and Cuba not being on there seems odd too.
There’s one account there, XxXJongGonnaWunXxX69
I know people are jumping on the “I hate to have to make another account” bandwagon, but uh, does steam itself even operate in these countries?
Stream is available almost everywhere outside of US sanctioned countries.
What’s the controversy? That is basically amounts to dropping support in those countries?
people now have to create a PSN account in order to play. The people in these countries cannot create an account, so they are locked out of a game they purchased.
Was the game even confirmed to be for sale in any of those countries, or did people in those countries spoof their locations to buy it in the first place, ignoring the listed requirement of a PSN account requirement?
It’s a bait-and-switch. There was no PSN requirement at first and they didn’t restrict purchases by country.
There was no bait and switch. Psn was always listed as required. This isn’t like sticking Denovo on a game right after the reviewers all get their reviews out.
No, it was not always required to play the game. I’ve seen plenty of “account required” shit to play games in my time, but those are generally required to engage in online multiplayer, or competitive modes, and that was the assumption that I had when I played the game in the first week and bypassed the PSN account message. There was no warning that it would be switched to require PSN later. There was no notice that a PSN account would be required to make in-game purchases. There was no notice that PSN would be required just to load up the game, let alone play it single-player offline. I think I made a fair and reasonable assumption that I was playing the game to the fullest extent that I could without a PSN account. If I had received notice that a PSN account was required to play the game at all, then I would have not put ~150 hrs into it.
Let’s go ahead and address some other bullshit arguments while I’m here, I’ve been dying for this to pop up on lemmy so I can comment…
- Stop going wah it only take 120 seconds to setup ur account…
Let’s face it, the people wronged here have put tens, if not over 100 hrs into playing a game, if you think the time required to setup the account is in any way, shape, or form, the arguement here, then you are a fucking moron.
- Other games require to you have a PSN, Xbox, Ubisoft, bullshit corpo account…
Sure, but I don’t play most of those games, or they offer offline or limited play without the account, or the game was free, or the account or was required to play the game from the beginning, enforced, and made obvious that was the stance on the issue. HD2 got so big because it was fun, and it was fun because it was free from bullshit (or at least reduced a significant amount by modern gaming standards). The game’s success was built partly, if not majorly by not enforcing the PSN account for PC, backtracking on that now feels like a slap in the face and a kick in the nuts to players.
- Other companies get hacked with your data, just give your data to Sony, it’s probably leaked already.
How do you think we got in this mess in the first place? By giving up our data to corporations who do not treat it properly.
Finally, the game has worked fine for months without a PSN account. You can join matches, make friends, block dickheads and report greifers and hackers. Adding the PSN account only does 2 things for PC players; let’s Sony sell your personal life, and massively increases the chance that you’ll need to repurchase the game because of unnecessary “account issues”.
You only needed a steam account to purchase and play. The PSN requirement is new and not even live yet.
Oh, that’s terrible. No refunds for them?
You can request a steam refund even if you’re over 2 hours of playtime, it just isn’t automatic
They aren’t locked out yet, the PSN requirement is in 1 month, and the Arrowhead CEO said they are discussing solutions to this problem specifically. I highly doubt they leave these players high and dry
lol. lmao.
We’re talking about Sony. They’ve made Madame Web possible so any disaster is possible…
It made webillion dollars though
The combined estimated total population of those countries would be roughly around 4.6 to 4.7 billion people.
So, literally more than half the world.
But corporations see $$ so it’s the half of the world that isn’t important.
After taking a look at the map, this sounds very, VERY off.
Only off about 3 billion or so, not that far!
Right? I was too lazy to double check, but yeah, the original claim seems absurd considering it’s missing at least the top 5 most populated countries representing nearly 4 billion people.
Counterpoint: no it isn’t.
I want to live in ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️.
love country
luv me wife, simple as
You might not. It’s very hot desert weather all year around.
I live in Australia. I take this as a challenge.
There was also an anti-French Wagner/Russian backed military coup d’etat. The US had to closed down a drone base that kept eyes on terrorism suspects there. Even if it was perfect weather, probably not a great place to be right now.
Looks like they censored the country Niger in their own post.
The hearts are how steam censors things it believes to be swears
Steam censored it for them. Nobody would go and use hearts if they were to self censor. They’d use ****ing asterisks.
You’re G****mn right.
You’re G** damn right.
FTFY
Fucking h*ck.
Did you just say the fuck word?
at least he censored the H word
I’m telling Mom you both said fuck.
Why would steam be more likely to use hearts? If anything id say the exact opposite.
Because that’s just how their censor works. It’s a well known fact for anyone used to steam.
Niger is a known intentional misspelling of the n-word used to circumvent censorship. So this is an evolution of the Scunthorp problem.
Only playable in countries with DEMOCRACY!!! HELL YEAH!!!
Ah yes, the very democratic Russian Federation
“We held elections. You don’t like? Window is over there.”
Like undemocratic Republic of Estonia.
Edit: oh Latvia and Lithuanian is also on the list, has Sony taken the country list before collapse of USSR.
The baltic states are a no fun zone.
What’s this controversy?
Helldivers 2 suddenly won’t let you play the game if you don’t connect your Playstation account
For Playstation users? Or like, if you are on PC/Steam you need to make a Playstation account?
On steam
Oh… Wow… That’s bullshit.
Andorra
Someone must stop this cruel oppression against the ethnic group of influencers.
why is one of them censored
I assume it’s this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger.
Because, i don’t know if you heard, but it’s Niger and people are too fucking retarded.
Niger is close to a slur and is probably overwhelmingly used as a way to bypass filters as opposed to actually taking about the African country
what a funny way to racism other people. “you’re just like a random country from that one place in the world”
Tbf, the racists wouldn’t see a shred of irony in that statement.
That makes a lot of sense, that’s exactly where it would be in the alphabetical list too.
