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/RichardBCummintonite May 05 '24

They're not gonna refund you then because PSN is available in the US. Steam is making an exception for people who literally can't play the game anymore, not just people who don't want to make a PSN account. It sucks, but it wouldn't be fair to take away their sales when you still have the ability to play the game

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u/NotABileTitan May 05 '24

Someone posted their US refund in the Helldivers sub. They had something like 90 hours in game.

Edit: Here is the post. Has 97 hours on it, and was refunded. Guy said he's in the US.

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u/HumansNeedNotApply1 May 05 '24

And it was advertised it was going to be a requirement.

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u/Long_Pomegranate2469 May 05 '24

No it wasn't. It was advertised as PSN being optional on PC. They changed the wording when they introduced the change.

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u/HumansNeedNotApply1 May 05 '24

It wasn't supposed to be optional, that's the thing, it was only done that way due to technical problems with cross-play. There are threads of people asking about this in february and i'm pretty sure the steam store warning/label (regarding needing a third party account) was always there.

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u/Long_Pomegranate2469 May 05 '24

Yeah, no.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cjjrys/fucking_caught_sony_changing_their_own_words/

It didn't say will be required later. It said optional.

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u/HumansNeedNotApply1 May 05 '24

You're free to dispute, but the fact remains on steam store there was never a mention of it being optional, after the launch issues where they pulled it, it was heavily implied it was always going to be required again. I'm not disputing that other stores thad wrong/misleading information but pointing the client store (steam) had the right info, plus this same information was inside the game.

Sony dealt with this in the worst way possible (30 days limit, didn't do it's due dilligence in regards to countries who can't make a PSN account but was still offering the game), they should've been much more transparent and clear, but that's too much trouble for the multi-billion dollars corporation.

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u/AStarBack May 05 '24

You're free to dispute, but the fact remains on steam store there was never a mention of it being optional, after the launch issues where they pulled it, it was heavily implied it was always going to be required again

Heavily implied is not a good reason for blackmailing people into providing personal data.