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Looks like Arrowhead might be moving forward with PSN despite "internal discussions".

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[-] yukichigai@kbin.social 108 points 1 year ago

While 177 countries sounds like a lot, it's not where the majority of players are. PSN operates in the top 15 countries by GDP and the top 4 by population.

Of course there's still the question of why they work in so few countries when literally none of their competitors (that I know of) have those limitations.

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 1 year ago

It's because it's a Japanese company. I'm not saying this out of racism but because they're known for being archaic in how they do certain things. Like game modding and work schedules. Their public transit is top fucking notch though.

[-] Renegade_roosteR@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I think the mistake was ever thinking that one company is "good" while the other is "bad". Companies are just different flavors of bad once they grow above a size of, well, once they are companies.

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Only because we didn't know better when we were kids.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Their public transit is top fucking notch though.

I've been to Japan a few times. Only Tokyo is super accurate with time. Go to any other Japanese city and it's no different from any other city in the world. Late trains. Buses that are 10 mins late or not even showing.

Can we kill this narrative that Japan is hyper efficient with public transportation?

[-] 100@fedia.io 36 points 1 year ago

some huge countries on that list, philippines, pakistan, nigeria, egypt

pretty embarassing

[-] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia too. Not exactly developing countries.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago

They are also EU countries. I am not even sure it's perfectly legal to sell stuff in the EU and not sell to residents of specific countries.

No harm no foul until somebody makes a report I guess.

This is accurate. I work at a international company. We will tell a bunch of countries to go fuck themselves since combined, they make like 1% of sales.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong. I'm just saying it's a thing many companies do.

[-] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I have knowledge on mobile gaming, they do this too.

It doesn’t pay to manage some shitty off brand Android phone’s compatibility issues when your whole country spends less in a month than a half dozen midwestern moms in an evening on the game.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I don't doubt what you're saying, but you have to admit that this is terrible PR for them.

If the past thirty years of Sony history has anything to say... I'm sure they're doing this right now:

[-] vodka@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

PSN (PlayStation Network) is available in 73 countries.

It was PSNow (PlayStation Now, their game steaming service) that was only in 19 countries. PSNow was merged into PlayStation Plus as the Premium level package, and is in 30 or so countries.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Strange then that they are now only listed in 18 countries.

[-] vodka@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is definitely strange, but might be an overreaction by Valve and not done by Arrowhead.

Edit: Seems it was indeed done by Valve.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Strange then that they are now only listed in 18 countries.

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