Sony unlocks regional restrictions for some PC games in more than 100 countries

It turns out that the regional locking of your games makes it more difficult to sell more copies. First discovered by Wario64Sony has raised the regional restrictions for several of its titles available to play on PC via Steam. Sony has not officially announced the abolition of these regional locks, or reason, but God of War Ragnarok, The Last of Us Part II Remastered,, Spider-Man 2and the successful cooperative shooter Helldivers 2 Perhaps bought once again in 177 countries which were previously prohibited, as seen in the Changelogs database.

To understand why Sony has decided to limit the sales of its games in some countries, we must revisit when the video game publisher has announced that it should be Helldivers 2 PC players to link their Steam accounts to the PlayStation network. This controversial decision prohibited players in countries that did not have access to the PSN, so Sony also deleted Helldivers 2 to be on sale in these places. The editor Backtracked quickly On this movement, even later Delete PSN requirements For other titles like Spider-Man 2.

More recently, the PC version of Stellar blade On June 11, resurfaced the debacle of the Sony PSN connection requirement. The game developer, Shift Up, was able to work with Sony to loosen the restrictions and make an optional PSN connection, allowing an explosive launch where the game experienced almost 200,000 players during its opening week. Now PC players around the world can play Stellar blade And Helldivers 2 without the need for a PSN account. However, there are still Sony titles on Steam which are strongly restricted, as Tsushima ghost And Up to dawn.