Helldivers 2 is now banned for purchase in Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia as of 7 minutes ago. Still trying to say this is Steams fault?
Worst publisher in the industry.
https://t.co/MAqRjb5wd7
For those claiming these two actions were not associated and trying to community note me. Sony restricted sales at 22:00 UTC on May 4th and sent out the notice of walking back the PSN requirement at 04:00 UTC on May 6th. These actions were 30 hours apart.
The wave of downvotes started on May 3rd and continued until Sony announced the PSN requirement was dropped on May 6th. You can review this in the package information and via steams customer reviews tool.
Customer Reviews:
https://t.co/4NXuyZQNox
Sony Tweet:
https://t.co/QKl2V6kvSg
Package Changelog:
https://t.co/seYV3OCAXT
The Helldivers 2 community was tricked by Sony.
Sony declared having a PSN account would be mandatory to play Helldivers 2. The community revolted and trashed the games review score to 13% positive. Sony walked it back and stated they wouldn't be making PSN mandatory.
Declaring victory the community undid the massive wave of negative reviews. Yet Sony did something sinister in the background. They restricted Helldivers 2 from being purchased in all 177 countries where PSN isn't available.
They fooled you and the devs are still fighting to fix it.
https://t.co/DHPXE6RTPT
Ah, look here everyone. A games industry executive has been backed into a corner without any possibility of escape.
Yet... what's this?! She's deflected the barrage with random heartfelt gibberish while not answering the question!
Nature is incredible.
@gozfrt@Profiteroles12@DdraigTatws@DmarcusBaus Maybe Sony should NOT have sold the game in those 177 countries then?
Why sell something to people if they aren't supposed to be able to play it in the first place?
Weird to white-knight for a multi-billion Dollar conglomerate, while it screws over normal people like you.
TY, Helldivers 2, Arrowhead and Sony for not better disclosing that the game will be locked from me if I don't own a console
I didn't even get the "link account" window at start and it seems to be a trend that people that surely would get locked where the ones to not get it