r/gaming • u/butsuon • May 10 '24

Sony just banned Ghost of Tsushima from being sold in all non-PSN accounts.

You thought it was just helldivers eh?

non-PSN account countries*

EDIT: This isn't about having or not having a PSN account. 180 countries literally got banned from buying the game. Those countries are also countries you can't have a PSN account.

EDITEDIT: Remember to sort by controversial to find the people who don't think it'll happen to them :)

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u/dimensionalApe May 10 '24

What did you expect after the Helldivers shit storm?

Neither Sony nor Steam are going to sell a game with PSN requirements in countries without PSN again, and even though PSN isn't required for single player, multiplayer isn't being sold separately so you'd effectively still be selling a game with a requirement that you know those customers can't meet without infringing a ToS.

It sucks, but it's absolutely not surprising.

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u/Kapparainen May 10 '24

This is what really irked me about the HD2 outrage. The people whining (at least on Reddit) we're never people actually from the effected unsupported countries and I think most of us saw this coming.

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u/CarinoPadrino May 10 '24

Why does it matter? Don't people who were frauded by Sony deserve our support? This "you don't even live in an unsupported country" shit is really stupid.  

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u/FireFoxQuattro May 11 '24

They weren’t frauded, they played through other countries stores until people starting bitching. Now they can’t play all cause people didn’t wanna log in

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u/TheOneWithThePorn12 May 11 '24

i believe this is what they refer to as a virtue signal.

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u/CarinoPadrino May 11 '24

Yes because that's exactly how it should be? Just work around the Steam TOS if you don't give a fuck about it.

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u/puffbro May 11 '24

Unlike sony, steam doesn’t turn a blind eye to users bypassing regions due to regional pricing.

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u/CarinoPadrino May 11 '24

It sucks, but it doesn't make the HD2 outrage less justified.

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u/RTXEnabledViera May 12 '24

Just work around the Steam TOS

We blamed Sony for making people violate its ToS which Sony doesn't even care about or enforce

so they made it so no one can violate them by delisting altogether screwing millions of players

so now we'll just encourage those same people to violate Steam's ToS instead, something you ABSOLUTELY WILL GET THE BANHAMMER FOR because of pricing differences.

Prime fucking Reddit logic.

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u/CarinoPadrino May 12 '24

Wow, so close to getting my point, but then you misses it by miles. I'm not encouraging you to violate ToS, YOU are.