Stellar Blade Unplayable for 1000’s of Gamers Due to Sony

Final yr’s shock PS5 hit Stellar Blade is coming to PC, which ought to have considerably widened its viewers. Nonetheless, like a lot of Sony’s PC ports, the lauded motion sport gained’t attain as many gamers because it ought to, as it’s unplayable in over 100 nations.

Stellar Blade on PC is unavailable in 130 nations

As noticed by ResetEra consumer Jaded Alyx, Stellar Blade’s PC launch appears to be unavailable in 132 nations, based on its SteamDB web page. That is sometimes a problem with Sony video games that require its on-line service PSN, which might make sense as Stellar Blade is a Sony Interactive Leisure revealed sport. Nonetheless, when X consumer @Saki_fua posted concerning the sport being unavailable of their area, the official Stellar Blade account confirmed it didn’t require a PSN account. This appears to point that the studio was unaware of the restriction.

It appears very odd for Sony to primarily region-lock the sport to places which have PSN regardless of the service not being required to play Stellar Blade on PC. It additionally looks as if developer Shift Up was blindsided by the restriction.

SIE has but to announce something relating to the area lock. Nonetheless, the official Stellar Blade X account has put out an announcement. It confirms it’s discussing the matter with the writer and is doing its “greatest to resolve most of it.” It additionally confirms PSN is fully optionally available and was by no means required.

Essentially the most notorious case of the PSN restrictions occurred when Helldivers 2 was launched final yr. It brought on fairly a stir, and even value the sport’s neighborhood supervisor their job after encouraging gamers to evaluation bomb the sport.

Stellar Blade will launch for PC on June 11 and prices $59.99. There may be additionally a Full Version that prices $79.99, which incorporates each the Nier: Automata and Nikke collaboration expansions and rather more.