All of the 180 Countries Blocked that Sony Blocked for Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT and HELLDIVERS 2 on Steam

On the 10th of May 2024, Sony created a new wave of restrictions on the Steam store page for Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT and HELLDIVERS 2. Both of these restrictions are centred on the PlayStation Network controversy they had a while back, and it seems they aren't backing down from most of their stands.

After Sony tried to make PlayStation Network a mandatory requirement to play HELLDIVERS 2 three months after the game's release, they received massive backlash, resulting in hundreds of thousands of negative reviews. Very soon thereafter, they took it back through a post in X, where they stated that the requirements would not be set live on those dates (though whether they'd come back or not was still up in the air). Though it seemed like an all-around victory, the Steam restrictions set upon the divers who spent dozens of hours in the game were never lifted, and those who played through family sharing lost access to it, while many others could never purchase it.

Many were speculating a possible PlayStation Network return, seeing as the information box on the Steam store page hadn't been removed. It states the following, which alludes to the fact that it'll be back since it hasn't been removed yet.

 Requires 3rd-Party Account: PlayStation Network (Supports Linking to Steam Account)

With this being around, it could still very well see the return of PlayStation Network at a later time. Meanwhile, Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT received a massive restriction list on the 10th of May 2024, seeing the same 180 countries that can't create a PlayStation Network account, and they are as follows:

•   Afghanistan
•   Antigua and Barbuda
•   Anguilla
•   Albania
•   Armenia
•   Unknown country code: AN
•   Angola
•   Antarctica
•   American Samoa
•   Aruba
•   Aland Islands
•   Azerbaijan
•   Bosnia and Herzegovina
•   Barbados
•   Bangladesh
•   Burkina Faso
•   Burundi
•   Benin
•   Saint Barthélemy
•   Bermuda
•   Brunei Darussalam
•   Bonaire/Sint Eustatius/Saba
•   Bahamas
•   Bhutan
•   Bouvet Island
•   Botswana
•   Belarus
•   Belize
•   Cocos (Keeling) Islands
•   Democratic Republic of the Congo
•   Central African Republic
•   Congo
•   Côte d'Ivoire
•   Cook Islands
•   Cameroon
•   Cuba
•   Cabo Verde
•   Curaçao
•   Christmas Island
•   Djibouti
•   Dominica
•   Dominican Republic
•   Algeria
•   Estonia
•   Egypt
•   Western Sahara
•   Eritrea
•   Ethiopia
•   Fiji
•   Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
•   Federated States of Micronesia
•   Faroe Islands
•   Unknown country code: FX
•   Gabon
•   Grenada
•   Georgia
•   French Guiana
•   Guernsey
•   Ghana
•   Gibraltar
•   Greenland
•   Gambia
•   Guinea
•   Guadeloupe
•   Equatorial Guinea
•   South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
•   Guam
•   Guinea-Bissau
•   Guyana
•   Heard and Mc Donald Islands
•   Haiti
•   Isle of Man
•   British Indian Ocean Territory
•   Iraq
•   Iran
•   Jersey
•   Jamaica
•   Jordan
•   Japan
•   Kenya
•   Kyrgyzstan
•   Cambodia
•   Kiribati
•   Comoros
•   Saint Kitts and Nevis
•   North Korea
•   Cayman Islands
•   Kazakhstan
•   Lao People's Democratic Republic
•   Saint Lucia
•   Sri Lanka
•   Liberia
•   Lesotho
•   Lithuania
•   Latvia
•   Libya
•   Morocco
•   Monaco
•   Republic of Moldova
•   Montenegro
•   Saint Martin
•   Madagascar
•   Marshall Islands
•   North Macedonia
•   Mali
•   Myanmar
•   Mongolia
•   Macau
•   Northern Mariana Islands
•   Martinique
•   Mauritania
•   Montserrat
•   Mauritius
•   Maldives
•   Malawi
•   Mozambique
•   Namibia
•   New Caledonia
•   Niger
•   Norfolk Island
•   Nigeria
•   Nepal
•   Nauru
•   Niue
•   French Polynesia
•   Papua New Guinea
•   Philippines
•   Pakistan
•   Saint Pierre and Miquelon
•   Pitcairn
•   Puerto Rico
•   State of Palestine
•   Palau
•   Réunion
•   Serbia
•   Rwanda
•   Solomon Islands
•   Seychelles
•   Sudan
•   Saint Helena
•   Svalbard and Jan Mayen
•   Sierra Leone
•   San Marino
•   Senegal
•   Somalia
•   Suriname
•   South Sudan
•   Sao Tome and Principe
•   Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
•   Syria
•   Eswatini
•   Turks and Caicos Islands
•   Chad
•   French Southern Territories
•   Togo
•   Tajikistan
•   Tokelau
•   Timor-Leste
•   Turkmenistan
•   Tunisia
•   Tonga
•   Trinidad and Tobago
•   Tuvalu
•   United Republic of Tanzania
•   Uganda
•   United States Minor Outlying Islands
•   Uzbekistan
•   Holy See (Vatican City State)
•   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
•   Venezuela
•   British Virgin Islands
•   U.S. Virgin Islands
•   Viet Nam
•   Vanuatu
•   Wallis and Futuna
•   Samoa
•   Unknown country code: XD
•   Yemen
•   Mayotte
•   Zambia
•   Zimbabwe

It's worth noting that this list is drawn from the SteamDB restrictions being set on the packages for the individual titles. According to the page, three country codes are unknown among the 180: AN, FX, and XD. These codes correspond to Andorra, Metropolitan France, and Dubai, respectively, though we're not sure why they're part of the list or if they will be restricted in the future.

This list is accurate as of the latest restriction wave on the 10th of May 2024 and may be updated at a later date if more are added.