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Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Does this mean that Sony will try to push the account requirement again on HD2, now that countries without PSN access are delisted?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They delisted them before they announced that they wouldn't require accounts after all.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So then why not relist them and sell your game on a bigger market? The answer is probably because they will try again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps. Or perhaps they're a giant behemoth where 1 hand doesn't know what the other is doing, and the person with the authority for this hasn't bothered.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't buy that.. I would have when this just started.. just a stupid decision made by an MBA that only thinks of his MAU and DAU (Monthly /Daily Active Users) metrics for the playstation network.

But once shit hit the fan, some big shot corpo started making central decisions from the comfort of his volcano base while petting his white cat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I think the answer is because they don't believe they need that market, they were obviously okay with losing that market share in the first place due to the fact that they put the requirement in there. As their announcements have said, requiring a PSN account is something that gives them more control over abuse (and ofc data) and allowing more players that are in countries where they are not currently allowed to have those accounts are counterproductive to what they are currently driving for

I'm not surprised they didn't reverse the region locks they believe it's something for the best and that's not something that the consumer is going to be able to change, regardless of the reviews or protest, worst case scenario for them is they just go back to being fully console exclusive if the PR pressure gets too bad

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