Ghost of Tsushima solely requires PSN account linking for its Legends multiplayer mode, a requirement the only participant marketing campaign is exempt from, the sport’s developer went out of its manner to say in a current publish. Steam, Inexperienced Man Gaming, and Epic Video games Retailer every had disclaimers noting the identical factor. In concept, that will imply if you happen to don’t care about multiplayer modes, you possibly can nonetheless play — however in apply, the platforms are actually delisting the sport.
You might be receiving a refund for a recreation you pre-purchased – Ghost of Tsushima. The writer of this recreation is now requiring a secondary account to play parts of this recreation – and this account can’t be created out of your nation.
Right here’s an instance with Inexperienced Man Gaming:
Irritating as it’s, the scenario with Tsushima feels cut-and-dry in comparison with that of Helldivers 2. Earlier this month, Sony introduced it might add obligatory PSN account linking to Helldivers 2, which had already been that can be purchased in non-PSN nations for nearly three months. Steam rapidly restricted the place the sport might be offered to solely nations the place PSN was out there. Gamers weren’t completely happy.
Following a review-bombing marketing campaign that slid the sport’s Steam ranking from “overwhelmingly optimistic” to “overwhelmingly destructive” in a matter of days, Sony walked again the change. However regardless of that, Steam didn’t take away the sale restrictions.
Then yesterday, three extra nations— Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — had been added to Steam’s listing of sale-restricted nations. The CEO of Arrowhead, Johan Pilestedt, mentioned on Discord he wasn’t advised in regards to the newly-added areas, solely discovering out about them by the sport’s Discord group.
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He later mentioned this got here right down to Valve noticing an administrative error, and that the nations had been presupposed to be there from the beginning.
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Pilestedt has mentioned he’s making an attempt to get each PlayStation and Valve to undo the sale restrictions. That this resolution was made by Sony appears believable, given the scenario with Ghost of Tsushima on a number of recreation retailer platforms. Nonetheless, Since neither Sony nor Valve have responded to The Verge’s request for touch upon this example, it’s unimaginable to say for positive whether or not that’s true, or if the shops are delisting Sony’s video games on their very own.