(Edit to note: I wrote this before seeing what at least appears to be confirmation that it was Sony who instituted the block, though it was just a support agent who said it and we know that always get everything right and have all the info available to their company…)

The block was implemented by Valve because they were blindsided like the rest of us and wanted to protect themselves when there was no plan available how Sony was going to handle all the copies that would be left unusable. I imagine Valve isn’t going to revert the change without some direct assurances by Sony that the PSN change is not happening and will not be attempted again because they don’t want to be in the position of having tens of thousands of copies that rightfully should be refunded because they never should have been sold in the first place.

I still believe Arrowhead is doing what they can about this, and that Sony only cares because they got a financial black eye over it. At the end of the day I think Sony is doing to prefer getting money from non-PSN countries as well as continuing to get money from the rest which they likely won’t if reviews go that far back into the dog house again.

I don’t regret putting my review back to positive but I don’t begrudge anyone who wants to wait and see more first (or feels they should leave it at negative as a reminder). If this doesn’t get resolved, though, it will be changed back to negative and it won’t be updated again after that, and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in that