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It has been a turbulent time for the Helldivers 2 community, especially the PC community, over the past few days following a statement by Sony that all players must connect a PSN account to Steam to continue playing. This has divided the community with many being understandably annoyed and others not seeing what the issue is. Helldivers 2 has also seen over 170,000 negative reviews since this announcement, which has been encouraged by the developers to give them leverage to fight Sony on this change and get it reverted.
While all this uncertainty is going on, many players had hoped it would be business as usual on Super Earth and they could still bring democracy to the galaxy while hoping no restrictions would be placed once/if this change comes into effect. However, that doesn’t look to be the case as a recent update to the Steam database how now restricted players in 168 countries and territories from being able to purchase Helldivers 2.
A new entry on Steamdb.info titled ‘Changelist 23416542‘ shows a list of countries that are now marked as ‘PurchaseRestrictedCountries’ meaning that when players from these countries go onto the Helldivers 2 Steam page there will be no purchase button. It is unconfirmed right now whether existing players will be able to launch the game still, however, one video on Reddit does indicate that players won’t be able to play Helldivers 2 at all despite paying for it.
Even though the video shows the game not launching, we can’t confirm whether this is an issue with their PC or the game itself, many of us have had instances where a game just fails to launch and the green ‘PLAY’ button appears again, so I don’t want to jump the gun on this accusation until concrete evidence is shown.
Here is a full list of all of the countries that have been affected by this latest Helldivers 2 update:
- Afghanistan
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Anguilla
- Albania
- Armenia
- Netherlands Antilles
- Angola
- Antarctica
- American Samoa
- Aruba
- Åland Islands
- Azerbaijan
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Barbados
- Bangladesh
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Benin
- Saint Barthélemy
- Bermuda
- Brunei Darussalam
- Bonaire/Sint Eustatius/Saba
- Bahamas
- Bhutan
- Bouvet Island
- Botswana
- Belarus
- Belize
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Central African Republic
- Congo
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Cook Islands
- Cameroon
- Cuba
- Cabo Verde
- Curaçao
- Christmas Island
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Algeria
- Egypt
- Western Sahara
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Faroe Islands
- Gabon
- Grenada
- Georgia
- French Guiana
- Guernsey
- Ghana
- Gibraltar
- Greenland
- Gambia
- Guinea
- Guadeloupe
- Equatorial Guinea
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Guam
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- Haiti
- Isle of Man
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- Iraq
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Jersey
- Jamaica
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Kyrgyzstan
- Cambodia
- Kiribati
- Comoros
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
- Cayman Islands
- Kazakhstan
- Lao People’s Democratic Republic
- Saint Lucia
- Sri Lanka
- Liberia
- Lesotho
- Libya
- Morocco
- Monaco
- Republic of Moldova
- Montenegro
- Saint Martin
- Madagascar
- Marshall Islands
- North Macedonia
- Mali
- Myanmar
- Mongolia
- Macao
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Martinique
- Mauritania
- Montserrat
- Mauritius
- Maldives
- Malawi
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- New Caledonia
- Niger
- Norfolk Island
- Nigeria
- Nepal
- Nauru
- Niue
- French Polynesia
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Pakistan
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Pitcairn
- Puerto Rico
- State of Palestine
- Palau
- Réunion
- Serbia
- Rwanda
- Solomon Islands
- Seychelles
- Sudan
- Saint Helena/Ascension/Tristan da Cunha
- Svalbard and Jan Mayen
- Sierra Leone
- San Marino
- Senegal
- Somalia
- Suriname
- South Sudan
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Eswatini
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Chad
- French Southern Territories
- Togo
- Tajikistan
- Tokelau
- Timor-Leste
- Turkmenistan
- Tunisia
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tuvalu
- United Republic of Tanzania
- Uganda
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- Uzbekistan
- Holy See
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Venezuela
- British Virgin Islands
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- Viet Nam
- Vanuatu
- Wallis and Futuna
- Samoa
- Yemen
- Mayotte
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
There are two countries in the Change Log that state “Unknown country code: FX” so we are unable to confirm which countries they are.
This is a very troubling time for the Helldivers 2 community and casts a lot of uncertainty on the future of the game, as well as future PC ports of PlayStation games, including the upcoming Ghost of Tsushima port. Only time will tell whether this issue gets resolved and all players can go back to Helldiving unrestricted, and we will ensure to keep you up to date with all of the latest developments surrounding this situation.
