Sony really needs to get their shit together. It seems like they've been pissing off all their communities these last couple weeks.
They might've just realized they're a medium-sized publisher with a hardware business on the side. Or they will be, if every game is on every system. They finally started porting to PC as a rule - because that's more money from more people. But now they're stuck in a dilemma between pursuing that money and undermining the concept of consoles. If they fuck this up then the PS7 is a Steam machine.
I genuinely hope you enjoy all the negative reviews you're about to receive, Sony.
No no, you don't get it, ask the HD2 people, you need to switch your review to positive so they understand that they get a reward when they behave!
Steam isn't the one delisting the games, that's still up to Sony.
Also creating a PSN account as a citizen of an unsupported country by VPNning or fake addressing your way to it is against terms of service, and can result in your account getting disabled.
Piracy is unfortunately the best option here by far.
I see. It’s unfortunate because if those games stayed on those stores, people could make an account in foreign regions without issue. I didn’t need a vpn to make a Japanese psn in Europe, and Sony doesn’t care that I’m playing PS5 games online from my U.S. account in Europe as long as I’m buying my games and network subscription in US$. I haven’t set foot in the states in over 15 years. Sony support even helped me recover my account when my authentication app lost its data once. Just know which address you used, you’re birthday and stuff.
PC gamers wouldn’t even need to worry about buying their games in native currency or even the online subscription in the first place. Simply make the account and don’t be a dick to bring attention to yourself.
Either way, yeah. Piracy is the optimal option left to players in those regions.
Or 🏴☠️🏴☠️
the game has fair prices to third world countries, that's why they have regional restrictions, if sony don't demanded that shit it would be available
Problem is Sony bans accounts made with vpn from the restricted countries.
Awesome, then Sony can ban those accounts for circumventing their ToS, meaning people can buy the same game multiple times. Very efficient!
Their ToS state:
3.2. During Account creation you must select the country or region of your residence and in which your account will be registered in. Once your account is created, you will not be able to change the country or region code associated with your account.
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/legal/psn-terms-of-service/
Since they explicitly say "you must select the country or region of your residence", selecting a different country is against the ToS. Did you not bother to look them up before making your comment?
Well I guess I’m f*cked, since I’ve been using a us account for 15 years and haven’t resided there in all that time. I suppose any day now my account gets banned because that’s how this works.
How about you stop licking Sony's boots and accept that it's not a viable solution to tell people "the only way to consume this media is for you to be in constant danger of being banned"?
They can remove your access to the game. That is unacceptable from a consumer rights perspective.
Not licking anybody’s boots here, just trying to point out that the issue wasn’t as bad as people love to make it out to be. Go make a psn account in another region. See if Sony actually cares.
What if earnings don't go up enough next quarter, and they see this as an opportunity to make more money? What if they expand PSN coverage and start enforcing their ToS then? You're giving people advice that will likely result in them losing access to their purchases in the future. That's bootlicking to me.
Who said anything about earnings? What are you on about?
Sony is a public company. Companies exist to make money. If Sony thinks they can get more money by banning ToS-breaking PSN accounts (since people would have to buy games again to play them), they'll do so.
Why do you think companies exist?
It would take a special kind of stupid to think a customer would come back to buying from you if you did something like that, but sure. If your hypothetical situation were actually possible, a corporation would probably do it.
Besides, aren’t we talking about PC players who aren’t even buying from Sony?
It would take a special kind of stupid to think a customer would come back to buying from you if you did something like that, but sure. If your hypothetical situation were actually possible, a corporation would probably do it.
Please explain to me how this situation is not possible. You've been obviously wrong before without looking things up, so I'd love an actual explanation beyond "nu-uh". It takes a special kind of stupid to think that children who want to play their favorite games wouldn't re-buy them if access were taken away, especially if it was "their fault" for "breaking ToS".
Besides, aren’t we talking about PC players who aren’t even buying from Sony?
You're absolutely right - the publisher of a game has zero income from any purchases. How could I be so stupid to forget that all publishers are doing their work for the good of the people, they would NEVER take a single cent from any purchase. Sony happens to be the publisher of the games we're talking about, but THEY WOULD NEVER.
Customer buys a bunch of games from the PS Store using a foreign account. Now let’s say your hypothetical plays through and Sony for some stupid reason decides to care where the customer actually lives, bans them, and removes access to their games. What does the customer do? Make a new account and buy more games from PS? Nope. They go buy from Steam.
You're absolutely right - the publisher of a game has zero income from any purchases.
Right… So anyway, I’m talking about where you buy a game from, not who makes it. On PC, your PSN account itself isn’t tied to your purchases, just PS services like trophy and friends lists, right? Exclusively PC players don’t actually have much to care about there, right? On PC, if your psn account gets removed, what’s stopping you from just making a new one?
Customer buys a bunch of games from the PS Store using a foreign account.
No, customer buys a bunch of games from Steam, and links their Steam account to a foreign PSN account. Sony bans them, and the player can't play their Playstation games on Steam games online anymore.
Right… So anyway, I’m talking about where you buy a game from, not who makes it. On PC, your PSN account itself isn’t tied to your purchases, just PS services like trophy and friends lists, right? Exclusively PC players don’t actually have much to care about there, right? On PC, if your psn account gets removed, what’s stopping you from just making a new one?
Sony. Their whole argument for introducing the PSN requirement to Helldivers was the ability to ban hackers and the like. This wouldn't make any sense if you could just switch the PSN account. They can ban your purchase, even when you bought it on Steam. That's the whole point.
You can’t just unlink your PlayStation account from your Steam account? I bought Red Dead online for Steam and rockstar wouldn’t let me log into my old rockstar account because the email account I had originally used years back when linking to PlayStation was an old one I had deleted since, and had no access to verify. They just told me to start over with a new rockstar account, unlink the old one from PlayStation, and link the new one to it. Same exact thing for a Ubisoft game I also bought on steam. What makes this different from that? Does steam not let you unlink accounts?
My rewards and rockstar status were boned, but nothing affected my save data.
We've been over this before... Sony is a company. Companies exist to make money. Sony controls whether you can unlink an account. Sony can choose not to let you unlink your account.
Do you think everyone else is just stupid, and no hacker ever thought of unlinking their account and creating a new one? Or Sony is stupid and doesn't realise hackers can create a new account? I don't understand how you completely skip over arguments in the comments you're replying to.
And therein lies the bootlicking. You're assuming Sony will play nice and let you keep playing, no questions asked - while they almost took away the ability to play an online game months after launch for players in hundreds of countries, which was only thwarted by massive protests. Yet you stand there and say "nooo, they'd never do that".
Man I’m so sick of people getting blinded by rage. Alright, if you’re just going to go in circles, I might as well repeat myself as well. Companies exist to make money. If they fuck over their customers, those customers leave. Others follow. Congrats. You lose money. Basic logic 101.
Again, I’m not a bootlicker. I just don’t automatically assume malice when something could more easily explained by incompetence.
Also, way to go ignoring what I said about rockstar and Ubisoft accounts. I guess Sony won’t let you unlink from a steam account based on what, how you feel?
Man I’m so sick of people getting blinded by rage. Alright, if you’re just going to go in circles, I might as well repeat myself as well. Companies exist to make money. If they fuck over their customers, those customers leave. Others follow. Congrats. You lose money. Basic logic 101.
And easily disproven by Sony's recent actions with Helldivers 2. If you were right, they wouldn't have thought about rolling out the PSN requirement, and they'd still sell the game world-wide. But you're not.
Again, I’m not a bootlicker. I just don’t automatically assume malice when something could more easily explained by incompetence.
When one party gains a monetary advantage through their "incompetence" and keeps repeating such "incompetencies", then yes, you are a bootlicker.
Also, way to go ignoring what I said about rockstar and Ubisoft accounts.
Because it doesn't matter... Come on, this is not that hard.
I guess Sony won’t let you unlink from a steam account based on what, how you feel?
Sony already has the ability to not let you unlink, as shown from the hacker example. So why are you so sure they won't use the same mechanism to make more money in the future? Because of how you feel? Bootlickers often feel like companies won't do evil things for profit, sadly they are almost always wrong.
When one party gains a monetary advantage through their "incompetence" and keeps repeating such "incompetencies", then yes, you are a bootlicker.
Uhhh okay I guess I can’t win with a brain running that kind of logic.
Good day to you sir.
"Whoops, companies keep doing amoral shit to squeeze more profits from their customers, but it's totally accidental, every single time"
Enjoy your boots - I sincerely hope that for every person you influenced towards giving corporations the benefit of the doubt, you lose an equal amount of money through legal yet amoral business practices.
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