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Sony removes regional restrictions on four of its biggest games on Steam | Sony seems to be moving toward a more sensible policy on Steam.


Slowly but surely, Sony seems to be moving toward a more sensible policy on Steam.

Related articles A more across-the-board approach to PSN requirements was rolled out in January of this year, when Sony announced that PlayStation Network accounts would be optional for Spider-Man 2 and The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered—both of them unreleased at the time—as well as God of War Ragnarok and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. Some observers have suggested that the runaway success of Stellar Blade on PC, which launched earlier this week without regional restrictions, may have prompted Sony to reconsider its policies. That seems unlikely to me: There was never any question that Stellar Blade was going to be a hit on PC, with or without regional restrictions, and it's not as if Sony was hurting for examples of successful Steam releases prior to this one.

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