Sony have been making a variety of errors over the previous couple of years, together with issues like mistakenly pondering they may release 12 live service games by 2026, however the extra instantly annoying one is its complete PSN factor. I in all probability need not remind you of that complete Helldivers 2 fiasco, the place they tried to make logging right into a PSN a requirement for these on PC and later scrapped this as a result of it went down horrendously. Nonetheless, there was one different snag that got here with all this PSN nonsense: area locking.
Regardless of with the ability to play Helldivers 2 and not using a PSN account, it was nonetheless unavailable in virtually 180 nations, all of which you’ll’t make a PSN account in (it is nonetheless potential to play the sport with an account linked, which is able to seemingly have factored into the reasoning behind area locking the sport). This has utilized to Sony’s different PC ports of their PlayStation printed video games, besides now, as shared by offers wizard Wario64, it appears a handful of them are actually (largely) area lock free.
Sony seems to be eradicating regional restrictions on their Steam/PC video games
God of Struggle Ragnarok steamdb.information/sub/833972/h…
The Final of Us Half II Remastered steamdb.information/sub/1219787/…
Spider-Man 2 steamdb.information/sub/1219797/…
Helldivers 2 steamdb.information/sub/137730/h…— Wario64 (@wario64.bsky.social) June 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
There are 4 whole, together with the aforementioned Helldivers 2, in addition to God of War Ragnarok, The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered, and Spider-Man 2. Price protecting in thoughts that these are all games that had their PSN requirements lifted earlier this year. From what I can inform there have not been any adjustments made to different PlayStation video games based mostly on their logs on SteamDB, however I am additionally not totally positive which video games had been and weren’t area locked, so your mileage could differ with their wider portfolio.
It is a good transfer ahead no less than! Definitely looks as if PlayStation are simply capturing themselves within the foot by limiting the place their video games can really be purchased. Now the large query is whether or not or not their subsequent massive sport (that isn’t Marathon) on PC may have a PSN requirement in any respect.
