The 125 Countries Possibly Affected by HELLDIVERS 2's Mandatory PlayStation Network Account

EDIT: This has now since been changed — check out our other news piece for information.

Arrowhead Game Studios has announced the upcoming mandatory shift into requiring a PlayStation Network account in order to be able to access HELLDIVERS 2. New players will be affected first, whilst old players that have been enjoying the game will have an extra month before they are forced to make the change as well. Learn more about that change right here.

That said, however, there are many concerns regarding countries that aren't allowed to create PlayStation Network accounts, to which Arrowhead Game Studios is yet to be able to provide an answer for. Bypassing the limitations via VPN is a bannable offence, so there are innumerable amounts of players that will be affected by this change. Below are the 125 countries affected by this that won't be able to create an account in order to continue their playthrough:

• Afghanistan
• Albania
• Algeria
• Andorra
• Angola
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• The Bahamas
• Bangladesh
• Barbados
• Belarus
• Belize
• Benin
• Bhutan
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Botswana
• Brunei
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cabo Verde
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Comoros
• Congo, Democratic Republic of the
• Congo, Republic of the
• Côte d’Ivoire
• Cuba
• Djibouti
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• East Timor (Timor-Leste)
• Egypt
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Estonia
• Eswatini
• Ethiopia
• Fiji
• Gabon
• The Gambia
• Georgia
• Ghana
• Grenada
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Iran
• Iraq
• Jamaica
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Kenya
• Kiribati
• Kosovo
• Kyrgyzstan
• Laos
• Latvia
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libya
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Maldives
• Mali
• Marshall Islands
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Micronesia, Federated States of
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Mongolia
• Montenegro
• Morocco
• Mozambique
• Myanmar (Burma)
• Namibia
• Nauru
• Nepal
• New Zealand
• Niger
• Nigeria
• North Macedonia
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
• Rwanda
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Samoa
• San Marino
• Sao Tome and Principe
• Senegal
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Solomon Islands
• Somalia
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Sudan, South
• Suriname
• Syria
• Tajikistan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Tonga
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Tunisia
• Turkmenistan
• Tuvalu
• Uganda
• Uzbekistan
• Vanuatu
• Vatican City
• Venezuela
• Yemen
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

It's unclear what will happen to everyone residing in these countries, but the Arrowhead Game Studios CEO, Johan Pilestedt, has stated that they are already conversing with PlayStation for a workaround, though none has been given as of publishing this news piece.

This change will begin on the 6th of May for new players and 4th of June for old players.