inclementimmigrantHelldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries
simpleWhat a disaster this is for absolutely no reason.
Just corporate greed for more of you data to sell.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆This one made me wonder if they don’t get telemetrics about how people are playing the game to improve the game (or build a new game) from without doing this. And if that same data would be valuable to data brokers in general or if it’s more valuable as an internal trade secret.
They already have this data to improve the game. They basically have a DM watching everything and managing play. This is just for Sony.
Yes, it would be just for Sony to get it; not meaning to say it isn’t collected at all by the developer. Before this, I would have thought they’d share that with the publisher (this case Sony) anyway.
I’m sure they do. I mean this is for Sony to pad their numbers for active paying accounts.
In my experience with telemetry, it’s100% about understanding how the product is performing and being used, and 0% about monitoring individual users. Telemetry data has little to no value for anyone not directly supporting the product.
techcrunch.com/…/researchers-spotlight-the-lie-of…
(Telemetry / tracking / meta) data absolutely has value outside of people directly supporting a product (any product, not just a game).
WytchWell now it seems they’ve become the dog with two bones
I expect media companies to be greedy. What feels absurd is when they act out of blind, unmonetized efforts of control that seem to hurt their bottom line - like forcing employees to commute instead of work from home.
Wym no reason? Exec bonuses will be great this quarter
garretbleYikes
Hal-5700XWill…that was fun.
RIP Helldivers 2.
They should start working on a helldivers 3 and self publish it, barely change anything. (assuming they own the ip ofc)
I’m sure they don’t.
properDellHivers
DillPicklers2
Div3rz of Hell
yukichigaiScrew it, go make the actual Starship Troopers game not suck. That thing is in dire need of help.
Lmao, this was such a panic reaction by sony that they've banned all US territories as well multiple countries where PSN is active.
They are so cooked that this isn't even funny.
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.
RivenIt’s because it’s a Japanese company. I’m not saying this out of racism but because they’re known for being archaic in how they do certain things. Like game modding and work schedules. Their public transit is top fucking notch though.
I thought you were being racist until you said that thing about public transit, so we’re good 👍
That wasn’t in response to my racist comment but in response to the archaic comment. They’re as much archaic in procedure and bureaucracy as they are advanced in tech.
I heard Hitler invented the Volkswagen boat
I’m 44 and Nintendo was our “chosen one”… but we can all see how Nintendo does a bunch of assholeish moves. You may have a point about the general business culture that these decisions come out of.
Carighan MaconarI think the mistake was ever thinking that one company is “good” while the other is “bad”. Companies are just different flavors of bad once they grow above a size of, well, once they are companies.
Only because we didn’t know better when we were kids.
Their public transit is top fucking notch though.
I’ve been to Japan a few times. Only Tokyo is super accurate with time. Go to any other Japanese city and it’s no different from any other city in the world.
Can we kill this narrative that Japan is hyper efficient with public transportation?
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.
ripcordStrange then that they are now only listed in 18 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.
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.
Flying SquidI 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:
ChozoTo 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.
DaveybornCan confirm, saw one approved refund with 97 hours on the clock.
NekkoDroidSometimes (almost always) I wish that the refunded money wouldn’t come out of Steams pocket…
From what I’ve heard Valve is already refunding most everyone who asks for a refund given this controversy.
Imagine if palworld devs create a copy of this one among all the ruckus
I'd be down to give Hellpals a try.
Paldivers?
Heckjumpers
Managed Democracy
Wholesome Anarchy
Isn’t that just Deep Rock Galactic?
I dunno, I don’t think the game would benefit from flat combat and meanigless crafting grinds.
The actual answer is that everyone should play Earth Defence Force (they just announced EDF 6), which I feel was a big inspiration for helldivers 2 bugs.
You don’t think Starship Troopers may have had an influence on either of those games?
Because there’s actually a couple Starship Troopers games now.
Oh yeah definitely, Starship troopers is a huge influence to both, I don’t disagree at all, the Starship troopers games seem to be a bit more serious and gritty in comparison to edf though. I’d say the gameplay in helldivers is very EDF also with the huge big swarms and over the top weapons.
all-knight-partyI much prefer the extremely deliberate aiming and the heavily physics influenced combat of Helldivers. Just makes it feel a lot deeper than EDF that sort of makes up for that granular detail by instead being extremely arcadey and over the top in its weapons and class abilities.
They play quite differently even though they have some surface similarities, but EDF is indeed also awesome and I wish it was more popular.
CrackhappyThe RTS is awful though.
Wonder how we should interpret the country “XD” being on the list. As far as I can tell its never been used for any real country.