Sony quietly region-locks another PC port that doesn't need a PSN account

Sony has once again quietly region-locked another PC game even though it currently doesn’t require a PSN account.

As detailed at SteamDB and spotted by the eagle-eyed folks at ResetEra, Horizon Forbidden West is the latest game to be unceremoniously locked down, ten full months after it debuted on Valve’s digital PC platform, restricting purchase in dozens of places like Albania, Latvia, and Bangladesh.

Just as quietly, Sony later reversed the decision.

Whilst some of the restrictions are likely due to political sanctions – North Korea, for instance – other territories with regional pricing may have been locked down due to local exchange rates that make games disproportionately cheaper when compared to US or European prices.

“Sony is so embarrassingly bad at this,” said one unhappy player. “Frankly they don’t even deserve PC customers if they’re going to keep pulling these kinds of stunts.

“I know Steam (the storefront) will never bother to push back on them because they’re a libertarian hellhole run by a laissez-faire asshole, but the userbase should just flat-out reject future PlayStation games if this is the way Sony wants to act.”