Online requirements for offline single player games is always poison.
Literally putting another expiration date on digital content
Sony is really desperate for more revenue. To the point they are refusing to sell their products unless they can harvest your data to sell. It’s rather sad. I wonder if they’ll have enough money for the R&D and production for the PS6 or PS5Pro.
It’s also baffling why Sony doesn’t expand PSN to other countries if they are hindered from selling products due to that.
Why do something smart and difficult when you could do something stupid and greedy?
I like your style, Johnson. You’re going to fit well here.
Probably not worth jumping though all the compliance hoops. Meaning it gets pretty risky if you do all sorts of shady shit without having lawyers and compliance people tell you which rules hurt and which are merely a small fine.
Your data is worthless. They’re trying to justify their platform.
There is not much reason for the Playstation to continue existing, besides the handful of games Sony paid for. Their AMD laptop is nearly identical to Microsoft’s AMD laptop. The only thing Sony really makes or controls, in that product, is the ecosystem. So they desperately want you to buy into the ecosystem. What Helldivers showed them is how much money they could make being just a PC games publisher, and they do not want to be reduced to that.
For every country they expand to, they need a legal expert for that country. It gets expensive quick, and sometimes you just dont expect enough return for the investment.
If only there were other income streams for a video game company 🤔
The bad PR and potential lost sale might make them reconsider the expense vs benefit.
Your statement is based on the premise that people will refuse to buy based on the PSN requirement. Decades of shitfuckery in the gaming industry indicate otherwise.
My statement is based on the fact that they require a PSN account to play their games on PC now. And if they can’t offer PSN in a country, they aren’t offering the games for sale either. It’s quite literally impossible to avoid a free PSN account if you want to play their games on PC without pirating.
Here we go again
Is it even legal in the EU for a company to allow sales in one part, but not another? Do they actively clock PS(4/5) devices from being activated in parts of the EU?
I’d think this would be illegal, but I am not from the EU.
Vague memory, but they can prevent it from being on the (for example) Lithuanian Steam page, but they cannot prevent a Lithuanian from creating an Italian account and use it.
This is something that arose from Netflix forcing people to use their countries accounts.
It’s surely much more complex than that. Hopefully somebody can corroborate or correct.
No it is not legal. Geo blocking within the EU is not allowed. But as always there are many exceptions… probably they will argue exception if ever taken to court, and if found in breach will just go “my bad” and get time to resolve the issue without a fine.
Did you know that “Sony” in Tagalog means, “big bag of dicks”?
Sony can do whatever the fuck they want. I have them blocked on Steam for a reason.
How can you do that? Is there a way to block a publisher on steam?
Here’s where to do it on the web client (you can get to the publisher from the right sidebar in the game’s store page), unsure if it’s the same in the steam client.
Thanks!
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