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You can’t buy it in most places now.

The Helldivers 2 debacle on Steam continues to make for interesting drama, as the game surpasses 100,000 negative reviews over the last couple of days and Sony seems to be showing no signs of walking back its decision to make PSN account links mandatory. For what it’s worth, reports on the internet indicate Valve is doing no-questions-asked refunds on people who contact customer support and give the PSN account-link as a reason, even if they are past the two hour/two week normal policy limit.

You might be asking yourself why was Helldivers 2 available for purchase in the first place in countries it would eventually not be available in, and that’s a great question. One Sony seems to be asking itself, because just a couple of hours ago they went into Steam and disabled purchases from roughly 170 countries. If you’re wondering how the number is so high, Valve officially recognizes 237 countries compared to the official internationally recognized list of about 195.

And yes, that includes The Vatican.

The Pope is going to need a VPN in order to bring democracy and probably Jesus to the sinning bugs and robots of outer space. In this context we assume VPN stands for Virtual Pope Network.

More as it appears.