Developer Shift Up said it was “closely discussing the region lock issue” with Sony after it became apparent yesterday, Friday 16th May, that Stellar Blade Steam’s release on 11th June has been blocked in over 120 countries without explanation.
In a brief statement posted to social media, the developer stressed it was doing its “BEST” to resolve “most of” the issue as soon as possible and would come back to players “as soon as [it] has more to share”.
After players also discovered that Denuvo has been incorporated in the PC version of Stellar Blade, much to the annoyance of some, the studio also took the opportunity to provide a chart to demonstrate DRM had been “hard-tuned to maintain the same average frame rate, with even higher minimum frames in some cases”.