[STEAM][PRESS]Oh dear, Ghost of Tsushima will be releasing in almost 180 fewer countries on Steam thanks to its PSN requirement

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Helldivers 2 PSN fiasco might be over now, but it seems that Ghost of Tsushima won't be releasing in nearly 180 countries on Steam due to its PSN requirement.

For a long while now, PlayStation has been finding quite a lot of success by releasing its first-party titles on Steam, even if the ports have needed some fixes along the way. Recently, though, it made a bit of a large blunder by forcing Helldivers 2 PC players to connect a PSN account to their game, something which

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to put it lightly. The game was then

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, though the decision was

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because of how poorly it was received. The backlash was so bad that even ******* Punch had to clarify whether PC players would need to link a PSN account for Ghost of Tsushima's upcoming PC release (

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, but only for the game's online mode Legends).

Well, that does still seem to be the case, except ahead of its release next week, the game has been pulled from ***** in the exact same countries Helldivers 2 was. Players noticed the change on Steam's backend through

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, which appears to list the exact same countries as Helldivers 2 was removed from, all territories where you can't actually make a PSN account (not including Japan, though why it's included I'm not entirely sure). Some players have even reported that they've

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from Steam due to its removal, though your mileage may vary there.

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