List of countries that cannot make a PSN account, following the Helldivers 2 controversy.

I want to live in ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️.

Oh man, even all the small European ones are fucked. Andorra, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Monaco. Hilarious!

Wait, Luxembourg is not on this list? Wow.

Poor Niger can't be mentioned on Steam apparently.

Countries whose exchange rate likely made the game even more expensive, and you’ve taken it from them just to dox PC gamers on the PlayStation network.

This isn’t even enshittification. It’s outright fraud.

I'm in Finland and peering toward Estonia and wondering what the heck did they do to annoy Sony so much that you can't make a PSN account there.

My instant guess would be that Estonians are in possession of a Sony tape deck from the 1980s that still works (being a Sony product from the 1980s), and Sony is like "No! We refuse to do business there until they join the modern time planned obsolescence club."

Only playable in countries with DEMOCRACY!!! HELL YEAH!!!

Wasn't Valve the one who pointed out that Russia was always pirating games not because they were inherently pirates but because the game releases had zero support for Russia lol. Hence why Valve was the first foreign developer/publisher that gained an actual foothold in the Russian market.

This is kind of like the same thing. Sony will just say something dumb like "we don't allow PSN accounts in these countries because they're full of pirates".

Now if only I could see this on a map

Edit: I made a map

Isn't this illegal according to EU law? It's a common market but the Baltic states are excluded.

"Niger" is a swear according to valve?

I’m not a big gamer so I’m not entirely getting this. It sounds like the issue is they want you to link your steam and PSN accounts, which people don’t want to do. And in some countries it’s even a TOS violation.

My question is, why would they have such a requirement to link the two accounts in the first place?

I don't know what a PSN account is, but I'm surprised you can get one in North Korea.

Why can't these countries get accounts? And what was the controversy?

Sweet they let the DPRK join in

why is one of them censored

Andorra

Someone must stop this cruel oppression against the ethnic group of influencers.

Can we get a similar map of Helldivers 2 players, based on location, prior to the change?

The combined estimated total population of those countries would be roughly around 4.6 to 4.7 billion people.

My brothers and sisters in San Marino will have to make that long trek to Italy, sad.

Why are there so many overseas territories in there? No wonder so many people are pissed off

Serbia is not on the list?! Impossible!

What's this controversy?

Pretty sure it's possible in Liechtenstein, Andorra and Monaco

Why Andorra — is Andor a swear now?

Everyone always forgets about Suriname.

I know people are jumping on the “I hate to have to make another account” bandwagon, but uh, does steam itself even operate in these countries?