After the Helldivers 2 account-linking fiasco, which Sony backtracked on, Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Reduce is the most recent Steam port from the corporate to be delisted from sure nations on Steam. In accordance with SteamDB’s historical past of the itemizing (which you’ll view right here), round 180 nations can not buy the title.
Oddly sufficient, Japan was added to that checklist earlier than subsequently being relisted. Whereas Sony hasn’t outright confirmed the rationale for the delisting, it might be on account of Ghost of Tsushima’s co-op mode, Legends, requiring PSN account linking for its multiplayer. Maybe the corporate desires to keep away from one other controversy associated to the identical.
Then once more, PSN isn’t required to entry the single-player marketing campaign, arguably the meat of the expertise. We’ll want to attend for extra particulars, however it’s an enormous blow to gamers in these nations.
Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Reduce launches on Could sixteenth for PC through Steam and the Epic Video games Retailer. Try the system necessities right here.
Helldivers 2 buy restrictions had been up to date so as to add Baltics.
Moreover, Ghost of Tsushima now has the identical buy restrictions. pic.twitter.com/TbXjHzCfwb
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