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.

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.