Ever since Sony decided to kneecap their own game with strict regional restrictions tied to PSN, the community feedback has been overwhelmingly negative.

Players from unaffected regions still want the game to succeed, but more importantly, they want more people to play with and more players to get into fighting games.

It seems like the lashback has been at least partially effective, as the game recently removed over a dozen countries from the restricted list.

Those countries include:

Armenia
Azerbaijan
Dominican Republic
Estonia
Egypt
Georgia
Kyrgyzstan
Lithuania
Latvia
Moldova
Philippines
Serbia
Uzbekistan

Still leaves 117 countries under restrictions, so hopefully this is taken as a sign that criticism must continue. If the response lets up, it's likely that Sony will simply ride out the negative sentiment until it's all quiet.

That certainly seems to be their strategy with regard to elimination of physical media.

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