some huge countries on that list, philippines, pakistan, nigeria, egypt
pretty embarassing
Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries
yukichigai@kbin.social 7 months agoWhile 177 countries sounds like a lot, it's not where the majority of players are. PSN operates in the top 15 countries by GDP and the top 4 by population.
Of course there's still the question of why they work in so few countries when literally none of their competitors (that I know of) have those limitations.
100@fedia.io 7 months ago
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia too. Not exactly developing countries.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 7 months ago
They are also EU countries. I am not even sure it’s perfectly legal to sell stuff in the EU and not sell to residents of specific countries.
No harm no foul until somebody makes a report I guess.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is accurate. I work at a international company. We will tell a bunch of countries to go fuck themselves since combined, they make like 1% of sales.
I’m not saying it’s right or wrong. I’m just saying it’s a thing many companies do.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I have knowledge on mobile gaming, they do this too.
It doesn’t pay to manage some shitty off brand Android phone’s compatibility issues when your whole country spends less in a month than a half dozen midwestern moms in an evening on the game.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t doubt what you’re saying, but you have to admit that this is terrible PR for them.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 7 months ago
vodka@lemm.ee 7 months ago
PSN (PlayStation Network) is available in 73 countries.
It was PSNow (PlayStation Now, their game steaming service) that was only in 19 countries. PSNow was merged into PlayStation Plus as the Premium level package, and is in 30 or so countries.
ripcord@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Strange then that they are now only listed in 18 countries.
vodka@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That is definitely strange, but might be an overreaction by Valve and not done by Arrowhead.
ripcord@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Strange then that they are now only listed in 18 countries.
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
It’s because it’s a Japanese company. I’m not saying this out of racism but because they’re known for being archaic in how they do certain things. Like game modding and work schedules. Their public transit is top fucking notch though.
Renegade_roosteR@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Carighan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think the mistake was ever thinking that one company is “good” while the other is “bad”. Companies are just different flavors of bad once they grow above a size of, well, once they are companies.
DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Only because we didn’t know better when we were kids.
Soundhole@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I thought you were being racist until you said that thing about public transit, so we’re good 👍
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
That wasn’t in response to my racist comment but in response to the archaic comment. They’re as much archaic in procedure and bureaucracy as they are advanced in tech.
nutsack@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I heard Hitler invented the Volkswagen boat
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve been to Japan a few times. Only Tokyo is super accurate with time. Go to any other Japanese city and it’s no different from any other city in the world.
Can we kill this narrative that Japan is hyper efficient with public transportation?