Curious if they have a solution planned before this goes into effect for existing players in June. This move could suggest that they don't.

I personally don't find it difficult to make a PSN account for a different region. But I do think there needs to be an official way to play the game in those countries.

Since Sony owns the IP, I don't think Arrowhead are going to quit working with them considering the game got so popular.
And this won't affect Arrowhead negatively in any meaningful way. Everyone in the industry knows that the negative feedback the game is getting is due to Sony's decisions.

I agree.
But I don't think Sony can recommend that people make PSN accounts with fake information on their FAQ's on their website.
 So there should be some 'official' sollution that they can point to.

Why require a PSN login? PC online is free. I was thinking of getting HD2, but fuck Sony. I'm tired of having to login account that are 100% irrelevant.

Of all the scenarios Sony could choose to handle this situation, they picked probably the worst one.

Conceptually, it’s for cross-save and cross-play functionality. Which is fine. It’s nice to have everything you’ve unlocked in multiplayer games to come with you no matter what platform you’re on and be able to play with all your friends.

This could have been avoided if Sony just didn’t sell Helldivers 2 in countries where PSN wasn’t supported from the start. And the fact that there was a bug at launch when it came to linking the accounts only exacerbated the issue when the bug was finally fixed. 

It's very easy to make a foreign psn account. effortless even. the only issue is  payment which is why you buy things with gift cards and similar products as you won't have a credit card for that country. There is no region lock so you don't need a vpn and  users from countries that don't officially support psn are directed by sony themselves to make accounts in nearby regions. PS5s are sold officially in many of those countries afterall. There's just been a lot of FUD spread about the situation by people with no familiarity with PSN.

This decision was likely steam's doing in response to the refund requests. sony won't stop selling the game in countries where they sell the ps5 version physically regardless of psn's official status.

Isn't that a Steam issue? I can buy from Amazon US and UK, but not from Steam US / UK ?

I don't know about digital goods though, which seems to be the issue. Seems refunds are in order if the game gets effectively banned from countries where it has been sold already.

Yeah digital goods is where it becomes a grey area. Valve is a private company, so there’s no way of knowing how they conduct their business internationally. Still, it would’ve been Sony’s choice to pull their game from all the non-PSN supported countries.

All Valve can do is offer refunds. Which is what they’re doing, even if you’ve played the game for over 200 hours.

Has to do with taxation. Sales tax and/or Value Added Tax. Physical there is import tax to cover it.

Theoretically if you live in the UK and make a digital purchase you'll need to pay VAT. Make a US account and "pretend" that's your region, how is Steam going to charge VAT and funnel that to the UK tax office? That is where the grey area is from and why these companies will not say something like "oh just choose a different region when making an account if PSN is not supported in your region"

Looks like Sony reversed the decision so this issue should be resolved or getting resolved.

Voting with your wallet actually works (They must have seen the number of refunds lol)

Great news! Hopefully this also means that the regions that were no longer able to buy the game will be reversed soon as well!