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 means to say in a current put up. Steam, Inexperienced Man Gaming, and Epic Video games Retailer every had disclaimers noting the identical factor. In concept, that may imply for those who don’t care about multiplayer modes, you can nonetheless play — however in observe, the platforms at the moment are 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 will add necessary PSN account linking to Helldivers 2, which had already been available for purchase in non-PSN international locations for nearly three months. Steam shortly restricted the place the sport could possibly be bought to solely international locations the place PSN was accessible. Gamers weren’t blissful.
Following a review-bombing marketing campaign that slid the sport’s Steam score from “overwhelmingly constructive” to “overwhelmingly unfavorable” 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 international locations— Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — had been added to Steam’s record of sale-restricted international locations. The CEO of Arrowhead, Johan Pilestedt, stated on Discord he wasn’t instructed in regards to the newly-added areas, solely discovering out about them by way of the sport’s Discord group.
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He later stated this got here all the way down to Valve noticing an administrative error, and that the international locations had been purported to be there from the beginning.
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Pilestedt has stated he’s attempting to get each PlayStation and Valve to undo the sale restrictions. That this determination 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 inconceivable to say for certain whether or not that’s true, or if the shops are delisting Sony’s video games on their very own.