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The censored one is probably Niger

UPDATE - special thanks to @dditty@lemm.ee for making a map showing the countries without access to PSN:

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[โ€“] mlg@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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".

[โ€“] GTG3000@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

That rings true for me. Only stopped pirating once steam was an option, myself.

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