If I huff enough copium, I can sometimes convince myself that they’re just stupid.
Unfortunately, the mandatory PSN requirement probably yields them more profit (through some means) than direct sales would from the non-PSN regions.
Another possibility is something I heard mentioned regarding Nvidia: Japanese and Far-Eastern businesses often favor control over maximized profits, and mandatory PSN might be a way of exercising this control. Just a hypothesis though.
If they want to exercise more control over the gamers who buy their games, they could let more countries sign up for the PSN. At the very least all of the countries in the EU should be able to make an account.
I still have Helldivers 2 in my steam account even though I can’t even look at the steam store for it.
If I huff enough copium, I can sometimes convince myself that they’re just stupid.
Unfortunately, the mandatory PSN requirement probably yields them more profit (through some means) than direct sales would from the non-PSN regions.
Another possibility is something I heard mentioned regarding Nvidia: Japanese and Far-Eastern businesses often favor control over maximized profits, and mandatory PSN might be a way of exercising this control. Just a hypothesis though.
If they want to exercise more control over the gamers who buy their games, they could let more countries sign up for the PSN. At the very least all of the countries in the EU should be able to make an account.
I still have Helldivers 2 in my steam account even though I can’t even look at the steam store for it.
Soooo, they walked it back. https://lemmy.world/post/24882107
That’s pretty good, I hope they actually keep to this promise though.