Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena

Classic Fighting Games Persona 4 Arena
1921

The undercurrent there is that Atlus (or Index these days) wouldn’t let their US arm use dual audio ever because they didn’t want Japanese to reverse import unless they’re crazy westaboos. They finally managed to beg them into letting them use the dual audio with the way ASW includes full multi-language-and a fighting game without the Japanese audio option would have been pretty retarded-but got fucked into region lock instead.

To be honest reverse importing was never something I considered in regards to some of the dumb shit Bandai Namco does. It doesn’t seem like it’d really be worth it after importing costs, and Asian versions should be the real issue not North American.

1922

I am not sure if somebody already posted this but Kurushii of Dustloop wrote up a gameplay primer. Pretty good info here, if basic.

http://mayonakamidnight.com/showthread.php?1030

1923

This is what happened to Blazblue EU. I play 360 so there was no other option. I think you are blowing something way out of proportion honestly.

1924

I don’t know about you guys, but all of you “caught off guard like a sudden surprise” at the P4A region lock have clearly not been paying attention to recent Arc Systems releases.

Most recently, I quickly noticed that unlike any other version of the franchise, the american release of BlazBlue Extend was COMPLETELY region locked and would not play on anything that is not an american system. This was a first for the entire BlazBlue franchise, out of all the handhelds, consoles, and various versions, the western versions were never region locked from JP systems. Extend is the first, which refused to play on either EU or JP consoles.

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As you see, my JP console is perfectly happy playing the western versions of Calamity Trigger and Continuum Shift, but the second I tried extend its like LOLNOPE REGIONLOCK.
This was a first, and foreshadowed the dark path Arc Systems and Aksys were walking towards.

To me, Persona 4 Arena is just a small step up from what already happened to Extend. This did not catch me off guard for one simple reason: Nobody made a big deal about the BlazBlue Extend region lock and there was not nearly enough uproar about it.

http://www.dustloop.com/forums/showthread.php?14161-BlazBlue-extend-is-region-locked-in-the-west-What-Why

I tried making a post on dustloop warning people about it but I got laughed off the forum like it wasn’t a big deal. Only a few actually listened.
Hope you’re all happy. I warned you all this was coming,.

Of course, this is Atlus and not Aksys, but the fact the BlazBlue team is involved in yet another region locking snafoo just grinds my gears. I sense a dark, region locked future…

Also, it’s not exactly a problem one specific company, be it Capcom, Aksys, Atlus, or whatever, but the industry in general.

Just how tolerant are we of region locking? How come we didn’t make a big deal out of what happened with Extend? Why take the stand now when it comes to PS3? If we’re against region locking in general, we should also be making a deal out of the 360 games that are region locked, not just ps3.

1925

Not that I don’t dislike it nor fail to appreciate how it really hurts the game in some regions, but could you not be hyperbolically dramatic?

1926

What does P4 Arena cost in Japan?

1927

All the hype I had for this game just died. Later guys.

1928

Umm, but hasn’t region locking been a thing since super nintendo days? Way back when region locking was just a few extra pins or something. I mean, it’s annoying for some people (let’s be honest, a very small subset of the gaming community) but it’s not world ending. Also, this is just me throwing out thoughts, but I doubt that we’re going to get any revolutions in the way game localization is handled on the tail end of a console generation.

As for japanese price, I think it’s something like 70-80 us dollars or something (don’t put weight on this). It most likely is large enough that it’s worth importing.

1929

At what it’s listed on AmiAmi it’s about $80US. It’d be a hell of a lot lower if the US dollar wasn’t bad and then yen artificially high as a result.

To put that a bit more in perspective, the cheapest shipping from Japan to the US would be probably $6-9 for ~2 weeks and about two and a half times that for express. I doubt it’s a hell of a lot better the other direction (it’d be much worse from Canada)

1930

Fans: “I can’t play the game 1-2 weeks earlier? Hype is dead”

1931

Europe is having to rely on Zen United, I’ve got more chance of jumping to the moon than they have of releasing this game before next year.

1932

This has nothing to do with release dates, unless you live in Europe.

1933

Or if u live in in non American territory with us ps3

1934

Have you been reading the posts at all?

1935

lol, what?
I don’t think you realize the people who are complaining.

1936

Id like to know why people are complaining

I mean I know gamers always find something to complain about but humor me

1937

Quick Summary

-PS3 games are never region locked, but ATLUS decides to go out of their way to be the first to do this.
-Many people now have to spend extra money on an import to play the game on their own consoles.
-EU players can’t play this game at all, until they wait like 3-6 months after everyone else.
-ATLUS claims that their reason for this region lock was to prevent JP to NA importation. But instead of programming P4U to lock-out Japanese consoles only, ATLUS decides to lock everyone out.

1938

Let them complain.(whether if its viable reason or not) Good to vent their frustrations here where no one will judge them then in the streets where people would stare

1939

I don’t think they can lock out specific counties like that. Disc media has established regions.

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1940

I see what you probably unintentionally did there.