Sony’s PC gaming woes aren’t over but. Following an argument that noticed the PC port of the favored Sony-published Helldivers 2 sport taken off Steam in over 170 nations, single-player samurai sport Ghost of Tsushima is being hit with the identical change, forcing gamers to log in to their PlayStation Community accounts to entry the sport—even when they don’t seem to be enjoying on a PlayStation console.
At the same time as Sony has backpedaled barely on its Helldivers 2 stance, the studio appears adamant on limiting PC purchases to nations the place its PSN service operates.
The issues began earlier this month, when Sony introduced it might quickly be obligatory for Helldivers 2 gamers on PC to hyperlink their sport to a PSN (PlayStation Community) account. Although PSN accounts are free to arrange, this prompted the sport to be taken down in over 150 nations, together with nearly all of Africa, as PSN doesn’t function in these areas.
Sony finally walked again the choice to implement the beforehand optionally available PSN linking, however Helldivers 2 remains to be not obtainable for buy within the nations the place it was taken down, solely netting a partial win for disgruntled gamers: Those that already bought the sport in these areas are nonetheless capable of play, however new gamers are actually barred from becoming a member of.
This transfer left Sony’s PC releases in a nebulous state, with everybody uncertain what would occur subsequent. Sony’s reply? Take a preferred, primarily single-player sport, one the place on-line integration is left to a aspect mode, and block purchases in the identical nations as Helldivers 2.
Based on SteamDB (which acquires its info by way of the Steam API), the PC port of Ghost of Tsushima, set to launch on PC on Might 16, is not going to be obtainable in nations together with Belize, Jamaica, and Bangladesh. Japan was additionally initially on this record, which is odd provided that it’s Sony’s dwelling nation, in addition to the setting of Ghost of Tsushima.
Japan was later faraway from the blocklist, at the same time as Sony has added extra nations, together with these within the Baltics.
Ghost of Tsushima is a particular case, in that Sony had beforehand mentioned that PSN integration would solely be required for the sport’s optionally available multiplayer aspect mode, Ghost of Tsushima: Legends. Regardless of this, the sport as a complete stays unavailable for buy in affected areas, despite the fact that PSN presents no connectivity profit for its majority single-player content material.
Valve is now providing refunds for these in affected areas who had pre-purchased the sport. It’s unclear whether or not Sony will proceed on this path with different single-player PC ports like Spider-Man Remastered and The Final of Us Half 1.
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