Diamond Member Steam 0 Posted May 16, 2025 Diamond Member Share Posted May 16, 2025 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 's Steam rollout has been mysteriously blocked in countries like Egypt, Vietnam, Estonia, and Cuba. While there's been no formal statement on why sales have been This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , it's thought the list broadly matches that of places where PlayStation Network is not available. But here's the confusing thing: Stellar Blade doesn't require players to sign up to PSN to play, which has left players wondering This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up sales have been restricted. It's possible the block comes not because Stellar Blade requires a PSN connection, but because it offers an optional one. Though not confirmed by either developer ShiftUp or Sony itself just yet, some are This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up that it may be because players are invited to sign up via their PSN account to secure an optional skin for Eve. The game isn't available in ~130 countries on Steam and Epic Games Store. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up — Mikhail Shevkun (@MWorldII) This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up More interestingly still, it seems ShiftUp itself has been surprised by the restrictions. While the team has responded to several unhappy tweets on X/ This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , asking the complainants This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , they've yet to provide any further information about why the game is blocked in certain countries. Despite offering millions of fans the chance to enjoy experiences that were otherwise locked behind console exclusivity, Sony has fumbled its rollout on PC, with This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . It meant that players needed to have an account and link it in order to enjoy their chosen game at all, even if the title was a single-player game like God of War or The Last of Us. The requirement led to This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . The drama first hit the Helldivers 2 community in May last year, when This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . The company, however, quickly took back that decision as it This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up just a few days later. This has since been further compounded, however, by the fact PSN is not available in some countries, which This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . Most recently, in January 2025, Sony This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , and instead offered bonuses for those who do. The PC version of This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up along with a raft of PC-specific features, including AI upscaling via Nvidia DLSS 4 and AMD FSR 3, an unlocked framerate, Japanese and ******** voiceover, ultrawide display support, higher resolution environment textures, and DualSense support for haptic feedback and trigger effects. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up returned a 7/10. We said: "Stellar Blade is great in all of the most important ways for an action game, but dull characters, a lackluster story, and several frustrating elements of its RPG mechanics prevent it from soaring along with the best of the genre." Vikki Blake is a reporter, critic, columnist, and consultant. She's also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/250863-steam-stellar-blades-steam-rollout-mysteriously-blocked-in-over-100-countries/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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