All future Sony games will be banned from countries without PSN because they will just force players to use PSN account.
Hot_Reputation2459
Steam is pretty goated for disabling purchases ngl
Onewaye21
Sony banned Japan. Nice.
CptHeadcrab
I think it’s Steam trying to cover there asses for when people inevitably request refunds because Snoy requires PSN accounts for their games
SecretInfluencer
Why not make the multiplayer a free dlc, and then block that in regions? You only need the login for multiplayer anyway, what’s the harm?
mohicannn
Even more reason to pirate, thx sonii 🙂
satans_trainee
How can I view “known restrictions” on steamdb?
templar54
Yarr me maties
millanstar
Isnt this what you all wanted? For over 15 years people where fine and without problem able to play PS games on unsuportted regions, with Sony support even, but you guys made a huge tantrum because somehow you guys care about following the TOS of a company to the letter all of sudden lmao, making it worse for everyone else
dontworkforfree
Puerto Rico is banned but not the USA? How does that work.
JerbearCuddles
Sony is so hell bent on getting people to link their accounts they’d rather just not sell to hundreds of countries. Including Japan? Which is a bit ironic.
indiegameenjoyer13
so they take games that i was thinking of buying for full price, and they incentivize me to pirate it instead?
PoppyBroSenior
Look I much prefer this result than them selling their games to people who cannot play the game.
gregarioustrout
Didnt the Sucker Punch devs come out and say account linking wouldn’t be required when Helldivers was getting torched?
Breakingerr
If it wasn’t apparant before, it is now 177 country bros
They don’t hate you, you brought to light an issue, they fixed the issue. The new issue is these countries are too small and due to needing PSN to access Multiplayer components steam (not sony) is adding to the list.
Foreign regulations, server transportation, staffing and server maintenance in each and every one of these countries is not a viable cost. so, To save the issue ever happening again, they are just cut off. period.
That’s the reality, it sucks but thats it. Period, steam won’t let these be sold were any account on any game mode is required were you can’t make one.
David0ne86
*Sad Slav music*
FEARoperative4
Weirdly no Russia.
H-Man991
How much do they sell peoples data for if banning so many countries is a worthwhile investment
MrSixtyFour
You know, if Sony INSISTS on us making a PSN account to play any of their PC ports at least make it ALSO available on our PS5s or if we get their consoles in the future with cross saves if we purchase any Sony title from Steam FFS. This is a far better approach. Although this is still dogshit.
Skastrik
Sony making entry into pc gaming like a brick trying to float.
Leading-Leading6319
“SoNy LeaRnEd tHeir lEssOn”
WildOpc
So wait. It’s not pirating then?
deathly_quiet
Guess I won’t be buying GoT then.
zg_mulac
I’ve been hating Sony for over 20 years. Fuck ’em.
Soundslikealotofwork
Japan is on the list. Damn they hate their own people
Taikosound
How can Ghost of Tsushima be banned in Japan ?
werewolfhunger
Japan?? Philippines?? Both of these countries alone have something like 300 million people living in them! Sony doesn’t care about all the lost sales from these two and the rest of the countries on the list?
Baffling
MadFonzi
Eh if I wanted to make a PSN account I’d buy a PlayStation, guess I won’t be supporting any Sony games on PC now.
Abbaddonhope
Why not japan?
VidocqCZE
I still don’t understand why it is not set as an ingame login without any region locks, just an account and sign-in. If the main thing is to boost usage of PSN so they can still say “yeah people are using it” and it is not an old piece of shit without major modern features.
JordansBigPenis69
they gotta love piracy then
Predomorph111
Welp thanks for absolutely nothing Sony
Head-Ad4770
Antarctica??? Lmao, nobody lived there to begin with 😂😂😂
Blackboard_Monitor
Japan?!?
AnthonyBF2
I hate them too
BangBang116
I’m going to pirate this shit, even though it is available in my country. I’m not going to endorse sony in excluding more than half the world from playing a game, because they can’t let people play offline and miss some data collecting revenue. Fuck sony!
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All future Sony games will be banned from countries without PSN because they will just force players to use PSN account.
Steam is pretty goated for disabling purchases ngl
Sony banned Japan. Nice.
I think it’s Steam trying to cover there asses for when people inevitably request refunds because Snoy requires PSN accounts for their games
Why not make the multiplayer a free dlc, and then block that in regions? You only need the login for multiplayer anyway, what’s the harm?
Even more reason to pirate, thx sonii 🙂
How can I view “known restrictions” on steamdb?
Yarr me maties
Isnt this what you all wanted? For over 15 years people where fine and without problem able to play PS games on unsuportted regions, with Sony support even, but you guys made a huge tantrum because somehow you guys care about following the TOS of a company to the letter all of sudden lmao, making it worse for everyone else
Puerto Rico is banned but not the USA? How does that work.
Sony is so hell bent on getting people to link their accounts they’d rather just not sell to hundreds of countries. Including Japan? Which is a bit ironic.
so they take games that i was thinking of buying for full price, and they incentivize me to pirate it instead?
Look I much prefer this result than them selling their games to people who cannot play the game.
Didnt the Sucker Punch devs come out and say account linking wouldn’t be required when Helldivers was getting torched?
If it wasn’t apparant before, it is now 177 country bros
https://preview.redd.it/aqs0fwa6inzc1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=712e0067eb52c83a99ee4ae3db6a0a82a069d2df
They don’t hate you, you brought to light an issue, they fixed the issue. The new issue is these countries are too small and due to needing PSN to access Multiplayer components steam (not sony) is adding to the list.
Foreign regulations, server transportation, staffing and server maintenance in each and every one of these countries is not a viable cost. so, To save the issue ever happening again, they are just cut off. period.
That’s the reality, it sucks but thats it. Period, steam won’t let these be sold were any account on any game mode is required were you can’t make one.
*Sad Slav music*
Weirdly no Russia.
How much do they sell peoples data for if banning so many countries is a worthwhile investment
You know, if Sony INSISTS on us making a PSN account to play any of their PC ports at least make it ALSO available on our PS5s or if we get their consoles in the future with cross saves if we purchase any Sony title from Steam FFS. This is a far better approach. Although this is still dogshit.
Sony making entry into pc gaming like a brick trying to float.
“SoNy LeaRnEd tHeir lEssOn”
So wait. It’s not pirating then?
Guess I won’t be buying GoT then.
I’ve been hating Sony for over 20 years. Fuck ’em.
Japan is on the list. Damn they hate their own people
How can Ghost of Tsushima be banned in Japan ?
Japan?? Philippines?? Both of these countries alone have something like 300 million people living in them! Sony doesn’t care about all the lost sales from these two and the rest of the countries on the list?
Baffling
Eh if I wanted to make a PSN account I’d buy a PlayStation, guess I won’t be supporting any Sony games on PC now.
Why not japan?
I still don’t understand why it is not set as an ingame login without any region locks, just an account and sign-in. If the main thing is to boost usage of PSN so they can still say “yeah people are using it” and it is not an old piece of shit without major modern features.
they gotta love piracy then
Welp thanks for absolutely nothing Sony
Antarctica??? Lmao, nobody lived there to begin with 😂😂😂
Japan?!?
I hate them too
I’m going to pirate this shit, even though it is available in my country. I’m not going to endorse sony in excluding more than half the world from playing a game, because they can’t let people play offline and miss some data collecting revenue. Fuck sony!