The lack of worldwide availability of Arrowhead Studios' Helldivers 2 on Steam is due to restrictions from PlayStation, not Valve.
Helldivers 2 players have taken to Reddit to discuss adding more voice actors to the game to expand the Helldivers.
These articles should say one or a few Helldivers2 players want this or that etc. most don’t give a sht about this guy or most of these articles at all.
Will the players manage to liberate Wasat as requested by the current Helldivers 2 MO? The clock is ticking and the bots are waiting!
Helldivers 2 players want to see Arrowhead Game Studios add new Capes to mark completing achievements in the game.
To be clear though, Steam does not restrict use of their platform in any country. So, to say that Sony delisted games in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and other similar regions is disingenuous. The taliban doesn't allow video games in Afghanistan.
There are many restrictions in many countries. Painting this as a false dichotomy of Sony or Valve ignores all other layers of what is going on.
Just be honest in your journalism about what countries are left out. Those countries should a) have internet access b) allow the game.
Yikes
Sony would be stupid to let valve run the show. They would be bad at business if they did that.
I pray for the day that Valve bans developers from forcing account linking and separate launchers for games on Steam. There's absolutely no reason for it, it often breaks Steam Deck games, it's privacy-invading, spams up your email inbox, and worst of all it's just extremely annoying.