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Welcome to gaming drama. Just like everything else, it's all about timing and vitality. That's why so much legal stuff that actually makes gaming worse gets through. Law isn't sexy, it's not instant.

But yea, "victory for gaming" that they don't need to log into an account... As they log into an account to boot the game up. But TWO accounts, absolutely not. Unless it's Call of Duty. Or Diablo. Or Assassin's Creed (which isn't even an online game?).

I can't even feel sorry. They bring it all on themselves.




An account that you can only have in 73 countries, while the game was originally sold in ~190. The PSN ToS is pretty awful, but what got a lot of attention was Sony just retroactively making the game unplayable for over half the globe. Yes, you can lie and give them a fake address, but in the ToS they can demand ID to prove your identity and location.


What's worse is they updated the steam sales regions, and they weren't even going to sell it in all 73 countries that PSN is allowed in

They marked something like 15 countries to allow sales, and blocked the rest. Just completely mismanaged the entire way through


When I moved from one country to another, PSN wouldn't allow me to pay for things with the card issued by my new bank - I ended up having to open a new Sony account

I'm not sure if things are the same now - that happened in the era of transition from PS3 to 4




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