What a disaster this is for absolutely no reason.

The accounts are so important that you're willing to lose sales in that many countries?!

Holy F, what a smooth brain move. They had an IP with incredible goodwill that would have been printing money forever (think about DLCs and merchandise, maybe even a TV series), and they chose to destroy all that to increase the active PSN account numbers by <1%. Which doesn’t even have a direct financial benefit, just something they can peacock in their quarterly reports, trying to boost the stock price.

Lmao, this was such a panic reaction by sony that they've banned all US territories as well multiple countries where PSN is active.

They are so cooked that this isn't even funny.

Will...that was fun.

RIP Helldivers 2.

Imagine if palworld devs create a copy of this one among all the ruckus

Delisted in Puerto Rico, part of the US. Amazing.

First their drm is based around the assumption that you're a criminal, and now this. I'm kinda glad I didn't buy it.

To be fair there is a lot of speculation that the delisting is actually entirely from steam's side not sony or arrowhead. Nothing is confirmed of course but the thought is that steam is throwing the kill switch on selling in these countries right now because obviously the publisher hadn't thought this out and just straight up doesn't have a plan for it. Valve may be doing this to put extra pressure on the situation drying up sales a little prematurely and more importantly to protect Valve from legal repercussions. Again this is entirely speculation but it makes a lot of sense, Arrowhead and Sony have been pretty quiet.

I wonder how many times I will have to see a publisher significantly harm their reputation in the PC market in a yolo bet to set up their own ecosystem and store.

I thought Sony had been conservative and decided against it when their first steam releases hit but with this move it seems possible that a Sony PC ecosystem was always in the works and it just wasn't ready for those original releases. Oh well.

They should start working on a helldivers 3 and self publish it, barely change anything. (assuming they own the ip ofc)

Yikes

I didn't buy it before because it had kernel level anticheat which is incredibly invasive and unnecessary for a PVE game, and now I'm really glad I didn't buy it.

Wonder how we should interpret the country "XD" being on the list. As far as I can tell its never been used for any real country.