Helldivers 2 pulled from Steam in countries that don’t support PSN

[G2ThaUNiT]

The Fury said:

G2ThaUNiT said:

 It would require a massive, and expensive, undertaking for Xbox, Nintendo, and PlayStation to change how their infrastructure functions that would allow for them to still receive the necessary funding to keep an absurd number of servers up and maintained while still making a profit. They already take losses on console sales, minus Nintendo, so idk how willing they would be to also take losses on server infrastructure. 

Valve was pretty smart in keeping themselves to just be an online store and not also a networking hub for all multiplayer games on Steam.

That or game costs go up. Again. And people are very against that even though in the modern gaming era where game costs are more expensive than ever. With massive teams to fund, server costs etc, seems the best way of maintaining those costs is subbed online.

MS, Nintendo and Sony do add a lot of features for this price though, free games, cloud storage, share play (only PS right?) which PC does not have.

My friend recently booted up the PS4 version of Last Of Us that was free on PS+ and imported his PS3 saves from like a decade ago.

Yeah pretty much. Console players do get more features for that sub service. PC only gets free multiplayer and free cloud storage. Steam does have Remote Play but not all games offer that feature. 

I have no doubt we're going to be in for another price increase in games in the not too distant future.