• Neato
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    Sony is really desperate for more revenue. To the point they are refusing to sell their products unless they can harvest your data to sell. It’s rather sad. I wonder if they’ll have enough money for the R&D and production for the PS6 or PS5Pro.

    It’s also baffling why Sony doesn’t expand PSN to other countries if they are hindered from selling products due to that.

    • @MotoAsh
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      384 months ago

      Why do something smart and difficult when you could do something stupid and greedy?

    • RubberDuck
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      54 months ago

      Probably not worth jumping though all the compliance hoops. Meaning it gets pretty risky if you do all sorts of shady shit without having lawyers and compliance people tell you which rules hurt and which are merely a small fine.

    • @[email protected]
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      -54 months ago

      For every country they expand to, they need a legal expert for that country. It gets expensive quick, and sometimes you just dont expect enough return for the investment.

      • m-p{3}
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        44 months ago

        The bad PR and potential lost sale might make them reconsider the expense vs benefit.

    • @[email protected]
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      -124 months ago

      Your statement is based on the premise that people will refuse to buy based on the PSN requirement. Decades of shitfuckery in the gaming industry indicate otherwise.

      • Neato
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        144 months ago

        My statement is based on the fact that they require a PSN account to play their games on PC now. And if they can’t offer PSN in a country, they aren’t offering the games for sale either. It’s quite literally impossible to avoid a free PSN account if you want to play their games on PC without pirating.