Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries

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Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries - Lemmy.World

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.

It’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’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.
I 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.