- cross-posted to:
- pcgaming@lemmy.ca
- games@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- pcgaming@lemmy.ca
- games@sh.itjust.works
Looks like Arrowhead might be moving forward with PSN despite “internal discussions”.
Looks like Arrowhead might be moving forward with PSN despite “internal discussions”.
The accounts are so important that you’re willing to lose sales in that many countries?!
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.
some huge countries on that list, philippines, pakistan, nigeria, egypt
pretty embarassing
Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia too. Not exactly developing countries.
They are also EU countries. I am not even sure it’s perfectly legal to sell stuff in the EU and not sell to residents of specific countries.
No harm no foul until somebody makes a report I guess.
This is accurate. I work at a international company. We will tell a bunch of countries to go fuck themselves since combined, they make like 1% of sales.
I’m not saying it’s right or wrong. I’m just saying it’s a thing many companies do.
I have knowledge on mobile gaming, they do this too.
It doesn’t pay to manage some shitty off brand Android phone’s compatibility issues when your whole country spends less in a month than a half dozen midwestern moms in an evening on the game.
I don’t doubt what you’re saying, but you have to admit that this is terrible PR for them.
If the past thirty years of Sony history has anything to say… I’m sure they’re doing this right now:
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.
Strange then that they are now only listed in 18 countries.
That is definitely strange, but might be an overreaction by Valve and not done by Arrowhead.
Edit: Seems it was indeed done by Valve.
Strange then that they are now only listed in 18 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.
Sometimes (almost always) I wish that the refunded money wouldn’t come out of Steams/Valves pocket…
From what I’ve heard Valve is already refunding most everyone who asks for a refund given this controversy.