PlayStation has forced my hand and is making me create an account on PSN so that they can artificially boost their numbers before May 30th, just in time for the quarterly earnings report.

As of right now, you can no longer buy hell divers in a non supported PSN region. Whoever did this, great, it doesn't matter, its been done. The discord is stating a lot of people in those regions are getting refunds now because Valve is covering their own ass. Good on them. You can see here the update on the region lock: https://steamdb.info/sub/137730/history/?changeid=23416542

Sony's up coming earnings report will be May 14th. Guess what will be in those reports, the Hell Divers sales numbers and earnings on that. I highly suggestion you report Sony to your local government for possible stock Manipulation.

US SEC: https://www.sec.gov/tcr (undergoing routine maintenance)

EU: https://www.esma.europa.eu/investor-corner/make-complaint

Baltics: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/geoblocking For the Baltics you can click on your flag on the bottom of the page and report it to your local regulator that handles the eu geoblocking policy. Credit to Dutch_Milk

UK: https://ssl.datamotion.com/form.aspx?co=3438&frm=general&to=flare.fromforms credit to Pr1mrose

Aussies: https://www.accc.gov.au/about-us/contact-us/report-a-consumer-issue

Canada: https://www.securities-administrators.ca/about/contact-us/

A very strong argument can be made that they willing sold copies of the game within these regions and inflated the up coming earnings call, knowing full well in a few months those players will no longer have access. I highly recommend we all do this. Its time we fight back and hit these companies where it hurts. United we can make a difference and hopefully send a clear message to not only Sony but other Studios and Publishers not to ♥♥♥♥ around and find out.

this should have little impact on Arrowhead as they are not the publisher nor in control of sales.

Edit:

As many want to point out this isn't stock market manipulation, its defined as "Market manipulation may involve techniques including: Spreading false or misleading information about a company; Engaging in a series of transactions to make a security appear more actively traded; and. Rigging quotes, prices, or trades to make it look like there is more or less demand for a security than is the case."

This would fall under misleading information. Q1 sales numbers are already on the books before any major refund will be issue.

Source: https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-basics/glossary/market-manipulation

If that fails, Sony for sure falls into this: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/fi/IP_21_170 Steam and 5 publishers were fined for not properly geo locking content.

PlayStation has forced my hand and is making me create an account on PSN so that they can artificially boost their numbers before May 30th, just in time for the quarterly earnings report. As of right now, you can no longer buy hell divers in a non supported PSN region. Whoever did this, great, it doesn't matter, its been done. The discord is stating a lot of people in those regions are getting refunds now because Valve is covering their own ass. Good on them. You can see here the update on the region lock: https://steamdb.info/sub/137730/history/?changeid=23416542 Sony's up coming earnings report will be May 14th. Guess what will be in those reports, the Hell Divers sales numbers and earnings on that. I highly suggestion you report Sony to your local government for possible stock Manipulation. US SEC: https://www.sec.gov/tcr (undergoing routine maintenance) EU: https://www.esma.europa.eu/investor-corner/make-complaint Baltics: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/geoblocking For the Baltics you can click on your flag on the bottom of the page and report it to your local regulator that handles the eu geoblocking policy. Credit to Dutch_Milk UK: https://ssl.datamotion.com/form.aspx?co=3438&frm=general&to=flare.fromforms credit to Pr1mrose Aussies: https://www.accc.gov.au/about-us/contact-us/report-a-consumer-issue Canada: https://www.securities-administrators.ca/about/contact-us/ A very strong argument can be made that they willing sold copies of the game within these regions and inflated the up coming earnings call, knowing full well in a few months those players will no longer have access. I highly recommend we all do this. Its time we fight back and hit these companies where it hurts. United we can make a difference and hopefully send a clear message to not only Sony but other Studios and Publishers not to fuck around and find out. this should have little impact on Arrowhead as they are not the publisher nor in control of sales. Edit: As many want to point out this isn't stock market manipulation, its defined as "Market manipulation may involve techniques including: Spreading false or misleading information about a company; Engaging in a series of transactions to make a security appear more actively traded; and. Rigging quotes, prices, or trades to make it look like there is more or less demand for a security than is the case." This would fall under misleading information. Q1 sales numbers are already on the books before any major refund will be issue. Source: https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-basics/glossary/market-manipulation If that fails, Sony for sure falls into this: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/fi/IP_21_170 Steam and 5 publishers were fined for not properly geo locking content.