Are they adding a PSN Account requirement to a single player game again?
Should be illegal. It's not, but it should be. Globally.
this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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Except for countries where we don’t allow you to
Honestly why even bother?
It looks like shit.
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107. State of Palestine
Based Valve.
Sony has been banned from feddit.org
😂
It's absolutely fine to put your pirate hat on when they do this kind of thing.
It's always fine to put your pirate hat on while children go hungry.
Absolutely. It's not like the person can even support the studio, it's blocked in their country.
Denuvo
No DRM exists which can't be circumvented one way or another given enough time.
Only if empress gives a shit or gets enough money. Last time I checked shes the only one crazy enough to attack Denuvo
Denuvo
... is expensive. And a subscription service.
Which means there's an incentive for studios to remove it as soon as new sales aren't bringing enough money for its cost to be worth it.
That's when you want to pirate (or buy, if you're into that kind of shit) the game. With the added benefit that it's unlikely that the studio will come up with more updates or DLC, and if the game is at all moddable it'll probably have a mature community patch that'll fix everything the studio was unwilling or unable to patch. (Also, I'm not sure how denuvo cracking works, but I doubt it removes all of that shit, so a game with it properly removed will probably run better than a cracked one, even if the cracked one still ran better than the original infected version.)
preach
I still don't understand how blocking individual EU countries conforms to the EU single market.
It doesn't
Who is going to report them?
Probably nobody 🫤
I mean I hoped someone would.
How do I report them
You can try [email protected] (no idea if this email still works) or their website contact form but this is usually for breaches of EU laws by member states. https://ec.europa.eu/law/application-eu-law/report-breach/en/check-your-criteria
Some poor antarctic scientist is gonna be fucking pissed.
Also Sony DOES NOT realize how much of their customer base are penguins living on remote islands... who have been getting slammed with sanctions on penguin tux imports from Italy and now this?!
Those poor two or three guy in Antarctica...
RIP the penguins.
Nothing to see here, just Sony doing Sony things. Money burning a hole in your pocket? Go grab a handful of indie games.
"Cross region trading and gifting is disabled for this item."
Sorry Pope Leo, no game for you!
Why?
Likely PSN requirements. Same thing happened with Helldivers until Sony reversed the decision.
Helldivers is still blocked for those countries. They just dropped the PSN requirement.
That's Sony telling the customers they kicked to the curb that it wasn't because of the PSN thing.
It was personal.
Could you elaborate a little more? Like do those countries not allow subscription services or something?
Only reason i can think of with my rational, non-global-economic brain is that it's got too much gory/sexual/political/whatever content that isn't worth the effort censoring.
They are countries that do not have PSN access. As Sony wants to make PSN accounts mandatory on PC, they got in hot water for selling their games in countries where you can't legally even have a PSN account.
In response, they blocked sales in all those countries.
make PSN accounts mandatory on PC
Sigh. The abuse never ends.
Sony being retarded again. It much be a day who ends with a y.