I'm sorry you misunderstood what I said. I was saying that Sony is encouraging piracy by making it impossible to play their games legaly in some regions, including mine.

Personally I don't think piracy is wrong with the exception of indie devs. If you think you are fighting corporations by pirating then yea, that's dumb but I haven't heard that stance yet.

If your only option to play a game is moving to a different country then I'd say it's the most justifiable. If you only have a PlayStation piracy won't really help you play PC or XBox games though so I don't see how that would help.

Well I'm a PlayStation user, are you saying it's justifiable for me to now pirate Starfield, Halo and every Xbox and steam exclusive game?

How, exactly, will you pirate those games to play them on your PlayStation?

You can buy Starfield on Steam does it require an Xbox account to play if you buy it in steam? I think most are saying if you can buy it in steam but still need a psn account to play it then pirate it. I have both Xbox and PlayStation but I’m with the masses on this if you offer it on a platform then you shouldn’t require an account from a different platform to be able to play the game.

I'm okay with that.

They're not available in your country ? then yes

Piracy is always justified.

You want my money, you need to earn it, shiti business doesn't get rewarded.

If they would have put up a banner in the game or a popup every log in stating ..

"Sony account requirement temporarily suspended.

Please note that in a future update this will be a hard requirement and you will not be able to play Helldivers without a PSN account".

Then this would not have been an issue. The question is if their game would have gotten as big as it did. I'll bet 'no'.

Also how fucking lame is the playstation network that they still cannot handle proper game launches.. ffs this should be a non issue by now. The servers that handle this should be setup to spin up and down clones when needed... But nooooo that costs extra money.