Arrowhead Sport Studios CEO Johan Pilestedt has offered an replace on the continuing Helldivers 2 publishing controversy.
At the moment, Helldivers 2 has been delisted from Steam in virtually 200 nations. That is within the wake of Sony’s try to power gamers to hyperlink their PlayStation Community (PSN) and Steam accounts. PSN isn’t obtainable in lots of nations, which barred many gamers from accessing the sport.
This choice was later reversed by Sony after participant backlash, however Helldivers 2 stays delisted in affected territories. Not too long ago, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia have been added to this listing. Arrowhead stays in negotiations with Sony, however Pilestedt isn’t optimistic.
Nonsensical Choices
In a put up on the official Helldivers Discord server, Pilestedt offered an replace on the scenario.
“So, to provide an replace on the three additional nation restrictions,” Pilestedt says. “They need to have been a part of the unique restriction and it was observed when the restriction was put in place for Tsushima. This was observed and executed independently by Valve.”
“Whereas it doesn’t look constructive. It isn’t a sign of additional restrictions. The dialog on area restrictions continues to be ongoing and is unbiased of this. I’ve no additional data. We (Arrowhead) nonetheless need the sport to be obtainable in all places. Hope you all have an awesome Saturday and I’m sorry I don’t have a greater replace.”
The upcoming PC port of Ghost of Tsushima has additionally been delisted on Steam, because the multiplayer portion of the sport requires a PSN hyperlink to entry.
Pilestedt has teased a cape launch to commemorate the assessment bombing the sport obtained because of the PSN fiasco. The cape includes a graph impressed by the mass detrimental critiques that Helldivers 2 obtained after the PSN linking announcement.
The current actions by Sony has broken the corporate’s status with PC gamers, an space the place it was beforehand making vital progress in.
