Final 12 months’s shock PS5 hit Stellar Blade is coming to PC, which ought to have considerably widened its viewers. Nonetheless, like lots of Sony’s PC ports, the lauded motion sport received’t attain as many gamers because it ought to, as it’s unplayable in over 100 international locations.
Stellar Blade on PC is unavailable in 130 international locations
As noticed by ResetEra consumer Jaded Alyx, Stellar Blade’s PC launch appears to be unavailable in 132 international locations, based on its SteamDB web page. That is sometimes a difficulty with Sony video games that require its on-line service PSN, which might make sense as Stellar Blade is a Sony Interactive Leisure printed sport. Nonetheless, when X consumer @Saki_fua posted in regards to 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 like developer Shift Up was blindsided by the restriction.
SIE has but to announce something concerning 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 non-compulsory and was by no means required.
Essentially the most notorious case of the PSN restrictions occurred when Helldivers 2 was launched final 12 months. It triggered 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’s additionally a Full Version that prices $79.99, which incorporates each the Nier: Automata and Nikke collaboration expansions and way more.
