I live in one of the grey countries. You can create an account, but Sony offers different stores in different countries, so you have to pick another country. They even sells consoles in many of the grey countries. The biggest issue is that you probably won't be able to buy anything without extra hustle because your card is not issued in the country of your PSN account. Also, this is technically against their ToS. But you can create an account to play Helldivers 2.

With that said, I can't speak for all countries. Maybe somewhere it's really impossible to create an account without VPN.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I live in a gray country as well. It's like this for a lot of products. And a lot of websites block you too. Everything here is more complicated

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The baltics and the balkans never get a break.

[–] debil@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As if having been oppressed by orcs is not enough.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Shit, they were both oppressed forever. The byzantines for the Balkans and the northern crusade and the teutonic order against the Balts come to mind.

Now the Japanese want to being their reign of terror with restrictive game accounts!

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago

thanks for sharing!