170 countries are being undemocratically denied the sweet liberty of managed democracy.
My review stays negative until super earth is liberated.
Do you have the strength and courage to be free?
I would like to know more
“Quick quick! More reviews need to switch to positive!”
It’s funny how we don’t see these people around here anymore and none of them will admit they were wrong, right?
Glad I got downvoted a week ago for pointing out that changing reviews to positive was a bad idea.
I changed my review to positive and realised i got played , its back to negative now and will stay that way until the 3rd party requirement notice on steam is gone and all the countries are unblocked. The people who refuse to admit they got duped are just coping like hell. I for one believe
WE DIVE TOGETHER, OR NOT AT ALL!
My bad review is staying for posterity. People forget too easy.
The important date is between May 30th and June 5th. I keep track of these things and if Sony ends up enforcing PSN again making it impossible for the people who bought the game in blacklisted regions to be played, then I’ll return my review to negative permanently.
Yep, back to negative for me as well. Like… come on Sony. What the Fuck are you doing?
It really is amazing how Sony is still learning to kill off their own games.
The major order has less players because of Sony’s stupid push to bulk up PSN numbers.
I think it’s fair to say Sony actually doesn’t care about a successful game or not. They want a permanent recurring slice of the PC gaming market pie. Games be damned. They want their own platform like epic
I don’t wanna be a party pooper but the Steam conccurent players doesn’t reflect that at all. The downward trend (that all games have after release) has not changed velocity at all.
This. The game had an insanely strong peak but is leveling off. It will peak again with new Factions introduced and if there are big expansions, but there are other games too. My friends went and played some other stuff, and even I have no desire to grind up to level 150 for no reason, and have already finished all the warbonds.
If they’re lucky it holds a strong 50k player base over time and they can keep healthy matchmaking and an active community. But drop off is kinda inevitable.
The sales lockout in certain territories is a legal issue. It sucks, but they gotta figure that out now.
They aren’t killing off their own games tho. Players were more than happy to shame other players into changing their review back to positive and just keep playing.
(Edit to note: I wrote this before seeing what at least appears to be confirmation that it was Sony who instituted the block, though it was just a support agent who said it and we know that always get everything right and have all the info available to their company…)
The block was implemented by Valve because they were blindsided like the rest of us and wanted to protect themselves when there was no plan available how Sony was going to handle all the copies that would be left unusable. I imagine Valve isn’t going to revert the change without some direct assurances by Sony that the PSN change is not happening and will not be attempted again because they don’t want to be in the position of having tens of thousands of copies that rightfully should be refunded because they never should have been sold in the first place.
I still believe Arrowhead is doing what they can about this, and that Sony only cares because they got a financial black eye over it. At the end of the day I think Sony is doing to prefer getting money from non-PSN countries as well as continuing to get money from the rest which they likely won’t if reviews go that far back into the dog house again.
I don’t regret putting my review back to positive but I don’t begrudge anyone who wants to wait and see more first (or feels they should leave it at negative as a reminder). If this doesn’t get resolved, though, it will be changed back to negative and it won’t be updated again after that, and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in that
