It's absolutely fine to put your pirate hat on when they do this kind of thing.

Are they adding a PSN Account requirement to a single player game again?

Should be illegal. It's not, but it should be. Globally.

EU petitions to change the malicious gaming industry would be a good start because EU is a large gaming population.

It may be large but EU is certainly not the largest.

This is something I think even the Chinese government would want to ban.

Even so, the EU is large enough that if they legislated changes, like they did with Phone charging ports, companies will fall in line so as not to miss out on a big market for their products. Results may differ for digital products though.

China is even bigger, though. There are many cases where the same happened, a product was altered globally because the company selling it wanted all that sweet China money and maintaining two different versions would be too costly.

Its just strange to me China wouldn't have a problem with this, but the EU does? The CCP is way more restrictive and controlling than the EU. If the CCP found out that single player games are connecting to an outside internet source, they'd shut that down immediately. They would be freaking out. Perhaps it is because PC gaming in China is not very popular compared to mobile? Or perhaps because it is so expensive due to taxes and other restrictions that they don't feel like they need to bother? I wonder.

I realize it is likely you are from a nation in the European Union, as Europeans and Canadians seem to make up like 95% of Lemmy's userbase, so I mean no offense when I say this, but the Chinese gamer playerbase is more than double the size of the playerbases of every nation in the entire EU combined. Companies wouldn't really care about losing EU if they can break into or keep the Chinese market. For many of the previous documented cases of EU legislation changing something, the businesses would have totally ignored those if China required something different and the business had to choose between the two. Bigger number means more money.

Im just saying it is shocking to me that the CCP seems to be okay with that. I don't think the CCP makes basically any right choices, but even a broken clock is right twice a day, and this would be one of those times. Crazy they haven't done anything about it already. The EU shouldn't need to handle this if the CCP knew about it. Maybe they don't know?

What's bizzare to me is that the game is banned in Lithuania, but not in Latvia. The two countries are like twins.

It will also have Denuvo, 70€, and it is the in top selling games on Steam right now. Well, that happens when gaming becomes mainstream i guess..

It's fine, I wasn't going to buy it anyway.

Edit: LV is in Purchase Restricted Countries list, just not in the one with the flags, for some reason.

It is also weird that They restricted Belarus but not Russia.

Does that mean it can't run on the steam deck then?

Steam Deck compatibility is uknown atm. But the new Doom has also Denuvo and it is available on Steam Deck.

No offense taken, thanks for the detailed reply!

You're absolutely right that the chinese market is much larger and could exert this force if it wanted to, but the EU rarely makes these types of moves, and they're normally focusing on consumer protection (think GDPR), which I don't think the CCP is really focused on.