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The economics of games are complex. I don’t understand why Arrowhead should take the blame here.

• nickphx 2y ago
  why should a company take blame for business decisions that impact their business? :D
• piafraus 2y ago
  Why shouldn't they? Arrowhead are literally saying that requirement was always there, it was just temporary not enforced/supported. It's not Sony that suddenly introduced that new requirement. Arrowhead were the ones having this delayed-change-of-contract. Arrowhead allowed their game to be sold in countries where you will not be able to play.
  • ro_bit 2y ago
    > Arrowhead allowed their game to be sold in countries where you will not be able to play. This is the thing that I'm not sure of and that I think the question of whether to blame Arrowhead depends on. Who authorized selling it in non PSN countries in the first place? Is that Arrowhead's responsibility as a studio, or Sony's responsibility as a publisher? Considering you can find locations to buy the physical game on Playstation's official website, even in unsupported countries, I'm leaning towards the latter (https://www.playstation.com/en-ph/games/helldivers-2/ https://www.playstation.com/en-ph/games/helldivers-2/)