Helldivers 2 seems to not be unavailable/inaccessible on Steam in some territories it was pulled from sale in across the time of final 12 months’s PlayStation Community account linking controversy.
In case you want a refresher, final April, Sony elected to make PSN account linking necessary for the PC model of the sport – a call it was rapidly pressured to stroll again resulting from enormous backlash from gamers, loads of which took the type of evaluate bombing. Nonetheless, Helldivers 2 was nonetheless pulled from sale in over 170 nations, most of which being locations during which PSN does not function, subsequently rendering folks unable to make a PSN account.
Now, although, it seems to be like a current replace to the sport has eliminated a bunch of territories and islands around the globe from the record of locations Helldivers 2’s unavailable through Steam in. Gamers noticed this replace through SteamDB.
The record of locations the replace seems to record as having been pulled from the “PurchaseRestrictedCountries” depot of the sport just about solely consists of comparatively small islands and territories, and is as follows:
- Bonaire/Sint Eustatius/Saba
- Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Heard and Mc Donald Islands
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Sint Maarten (Dutch half)
- French Southern Territories
One participant, person DarthSet, who says they’re within the Channel Islands has since reported through a reddit publish that they are now in a position to see the sport on Steam, writing: “It was blocked beforehand. (I am in since day one lads, however couldn’t entry the shop [page] because the ban).”
Naturally, the Helldivers 2 neighborhood’s fairly comfortable about this, even when an enormous swath of nations stay on the restricted record, with that thread above being full of oldsters welcoming DarthSet again to the entrance traces and/or telling them their unpaid trip from diving is over.
Are you in certainly one of these locations, and are actually diving again into the Galactic Battle? Tell us under!
