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Helldivers 2 went from one of the most beloved Steam games to one of the most hated pretty quickly (programming.dev)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 160 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

its past the refund window, PSN only allows 69 countries to make an account, so 66% of the countries in the world are simply not able to make an account at all. Depending on how things shake out, those players will be locked out of hell divers.

If this hadn't been retroactive, then our gaming brothers from i.e. the Philippines would have bought the game, tried to run it, hit the wall, and refunded it... sucks but they wouldn't have lost time or money.... but now... they lose both.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Ah see, that's the context I needed. Thank you. Outside a refund window or not - if I were in a country that got locked out, steam had better be real gracious with their refunds. That scenario is unacceptable. Strange that PSN restricts themselves geographically.. they absolutely should have thought of that before allowing the game to be sold in those countries.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, I'm sure some executive is trying to pump up "active monthly" PSN users for some political, KPI, or share evaluation purposes. We kind of expect them to play these games, its the retroactive bit that's surprising here.