Helldivers 2 was delisted by Sony, not Steam, Valve rep says

[Gamernyc78]

Helldivers 2 was delisted by Sony, not Steam, Valve rep says

Steam representatives are informing some Helldivers 2 players that the game's publisher, Sony, pulled it from sale in r…

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In one response, a player was told that the game was pulled from "specific regions" "as decided by the publisher", and Steam did not know "when the game might be made available in those countries". Players were then invited to contact Sony themselves to "share [their] feedback" if they had any further questions.

As for why three additional regions have been added to the restriction, even though Sony has reversed the decision to compel players to connect to a PSN account? Apparently, that's to do with a similar delisting strategy for the upcoming Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut, for which Steam has taken the unprecedented action of auto-refunding players who bought it in countries where PSN isn't available.

According to Helldivers 2 creative director and Arrowhead CEO, Johan Pilestedt, that was an "administrative error correction".

"So, to give an update on the three further country restrictions. It was an administrative error correction - they should have been part of the original restriction and it was noticed when the restriction was put in place for Tsushima," Pilestedt explained on Discord. "This was noticed and executed by Valve.

 

[Yurinka]

Yes, the publisher is the one who decides in which countries a game is sold or not. Sony decided to delist Helldivers 2 and GoT PC from these countries without PSN stores, the ones that don't appear in the list when creating a PSN user account.