Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries

• Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s because it’s a Japanese company. I’m not saying this out of racism but because they’re known for being archaic in how they do certain things. Like game modding and work schedules. Their public transit is top fucking notch though.

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  • Renegade_roosteR@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think the mistake was ever thinking that one company is “good” while the other is “bad”. Companies are just different flavors of bad once they grow above a size of, well, once they are companies.

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    • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Only because we didn’t know better when we were kids.

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  • Soundhole@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I thought you were being racist until you said that thing about public transit, so we’re good 👍

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    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That wasn’t in response to my racist comment but in response to the archaic comment. They’re as much archaic in procedure and bureaucracy as they are advanced in tech.

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      • nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I heard Hitler invented the Volkswagen boat

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Their public transit is top fucking notch though.

    I’ve been to Japan a few times. Only Tokyo is super accurate with time. Go to any other Japanese city and it’s no different from any other city in the world.

    Can we kill this narrative that Japan is hyper efficient with public transportation?

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• 100@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  some huge countries on that list, philippines, pakistan, nigeria, egypt

  pretty embarassing

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  • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia too. Not exactly developing countries.

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    • maynarkh@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They are also EU countries. I am not even sure it’s perfectly legal to sell stuff in the EU and not sell to residents of specific countries.

      No harm no foul until somebody makes a report I guess.

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• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is accurate. I work at a international company. We will tell a bunch of countries to go fuck themselves since combined, they make like 1% of sales.

  I’m not saying it’s right or wrong. I’m just saying it’s a thing many companies do.

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  • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I have knowledge on mobile gaming, they do this too.

    It doesn’t pay to manage some shitty off brand Android phone’s compatibility issues when your whole country spends less in a month than a half dozen midwestern moms in an evening on the game.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t doubt what you’re saying, but you have to admit that this is terrible PR for them.

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If the past thirty years of Sony history has anything to say… I’m sure they’re doing this right now:

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• vodka@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  PSN (PlayStation Network) is available in 73 countries.

  It was PSNow (PlayStation Now, their game steaming service) that was only in 19 countries. PSNow was merged into PlayStation Plus as the Premium level package, and is in 30 or so countries.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Strange then that they are now only listed in 18 countries.

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    • vodka@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That is definitely strange, but might be an overreaction by Valve and not done by Arrowhead.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Strange then that they are now only listed in 18 countries.

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