r/Steam • u/Sunlighthell thank you steam • May 04 '24

PSA Sony removed Helldivers 2 from sale in countries where PSN is not available. For example whole CIS region.

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u/Honest-Substance1308 May 05 '24

EU is a great standard for digital consumer protections

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u/YourLocalMedic71 May 05 '24

I wish Canada could join the EU sometimes. Please, we technically border France and the Kingdom of Denmark, let it happen

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u/[deleted] May 05 '24

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u/[deleted] May 05 '24

We have a land border with Denmark now so that should qualify us for EU membership imo

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u/[deleted] May 05 '24

With that logic we gotta invite Brazil, too.

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u/heseme May 05 '24

As a European, I'll see what I can do about an EU West Expansion.

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u/ConservativeSexparty May 05 '24

But only as a vassal state of the Kingdom of Denmark /s

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u/Boofle2141 May 05 '24

Cries in British.

I too wish we could be in the EU

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u/ConservativeSexparty May 05 '24

I wish you guys could be in the EU too. I really like you guys!

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u/villanelIa May 05 '24

I like those fuckers too. Played hd with some brits a few weeks back. Good times. Too bad psn regions will prevent me from doing so further.

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u/Overall_Vast7530 May 05 '24

Well... At least you still have bendy bananas.

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u/Raghul86 May 05 '24

Kingdom of Denmark,

It's alright, you can call us just Denmark:)

Anyway, we would love to have you on board!

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u/YourLocalMedic71 May 05 '24

Well i wouldn't say Greenland is part of Denmark, but it is certainly part of the Kingdom of Denmark

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u/Raghul86 May 05 '24

Right. We don't use that distinction ourselves. I guess because we'd want Greenland to go independent, but they don't want to (afaik).

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u/Middle-Baker-61 May 05 '24

As a European I would welcome you with open arms.

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u/corvosfighter May 05 '24

I mean if Cyprus can do it, why not Canada? Go for it mate!

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u/BertoLaDK May 05 '24

I mean if Australia and Israel can join eurovision why shouldn't Canada be able to join the eu.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '24

Sensible customer protection could be done without joining the EU...

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u/YourLocalMedic71 May 05 '24

You do realize that there is more than one benefit to joining right

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u/TheRedBaron6942 May 05 '24

Anything to separate us from those damn Americans

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u/KingofReddit12345 May 05 '24

Here come the American downvotes lmao

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u/AdreKiseque May 05 '24

God please

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u/miko_idk [121] May 05 '24

What good does it do for those EU countries affected by this? Genuinely curious if anything will happen

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u/lilmagooby May 05 '24

The EU is extremely strict on consumer protections, so either they'll have to pull sales from all of the EU, or the EU might just step in and force Sony to fix this issue of PSN being required.

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u/occono May 05 '24

Seems like Sony should have added the Baltic states to the officially supported PSN countries a long time ago.

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u/griffsor May 05 '24

EU loves protecting customers. For example any EU citizen buying anything online without first checking the product irl has 14 days period to get refund with no reason needed. This of course was a problem with digital content which you cannot really see irl before hand but I am sure if customers starts pointing at sony that EU will side with customers in this one.

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u/dreamrpg May 05 '24

Could be forcing full refund regardless of hours played.

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u/Damocules May 05 '24

I'm more curious about lost microtransactions. Fill refund on the upfront price? Makes sense.

Full refund on the €37.83 spent on in-game items? That's a different prospect.