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Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries (steamdb.info)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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It’s crazy to see Sony kill their golden goose.

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

How is PSN not in that many countries?

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 39 points 6 months ago

That's the question both the developers and players are asking the publisher.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/

If we find the median item on this list we get #117 which is Central African Republic with a population of 5.7 million or 0.07 % of the global population.

It would be very easy for a large multinational to ignore the smaller nations and focus their efforts on the larger markets.

[–] Zekas@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not that simple. There's more factors like connectivity. Some areas of Africa is pretty much only phones.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You can play Helldivers on a mobile data connection. And besides, Steam is there.

Also lmao most of Australia, by landmass, is only phones or no internet at all. But PSN is in Australia.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

It's apparently in 73 countries. So it seems the number quoted here includes a lot of non-countries, such as parts of countries (e.g. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, which has no population and is a territory of the UK).

So it's still bad, just not as bad as the post title makes it out to be.