shouldnt you have been boycotting already since games have been exclusive to regions before?
people are mad they have to pay more than others like that one guy already admitted
PS3 games have never been region locked. Every PS3 game from every region worked on every PS3 of every region. If a game was released in a single region there was nothing stopping you from importing it and playing it in any PS3.
Imagine if Persona 4 Arena was released only in Japan. The only legitimate way to play it would’ve been by buying a japanese PS3. This is the biggest issue, we don’t want this to become the norm not only for Atlus games, but to send a message** to every other publisher out there that would gladly do this to increase profits per region that**** this shit won’t fly.**
There’s also the problem of people who have PS3’s with different regions from where they live - which was totally OK because games weren’t region locked. Not only they won’t be able to play this game because they’ll need to import it - which is expensive -, if this becomes the norm then they’ll have to import every single region locked game they want.
Im not talking about ps3 games only. So if someone wanted to play region free games they have to fork over cash to buy a ps3? And you have someone crying about paying an extra $40?!
You basically dont care about other systems/gamers then really haha
Imagine if Persona 4 Arena was 360 only. THE ONLY WAY TO PLAY IT WOULD BE TO BUY A 360. See how this is practically the same thing? sillyness
Okay, I’m going to have to tell you to stop posting. I can only troll someone for so long without feeling annoyed myself.
Here, let’s just say you’re missing 3 very, very, very, very, very large key points in your argument, making it completely invalid. And because of this, you sound completely ignorant on the subject at hand.
No, I’m not insulting you or trying to start anything, but fact reminds that you’re sounding completely idiotic on the situation here.
For your sake, please stop 
A quote from my post earlier to help brighten up what people are reading in the sentences you present (added content):
Wait, I’m American. Why should I care? Hahahaha.
You guys not in America should stop bitching! All you guys do is complain about everything, it’s so funny to me!! Hahahahaha! I mean, it’s not our fault you guys were born outside of America! Next time pick a better place to be born in, idiots!
This is literally what you’ve been saying. It’s just that I’m slightly more blunt on it.**
Im gonna go cry that Halo is system locked, the only way I can play it is to buy a 360. I dont like that
Your avatar is pretty much my exact reaction to his last post. I’m done.
I just edited my post so you have a better understanding of what you’re implying.
Cheers.
I know its bad and all, but i still think you’re overreacting on the whole. The PS3 has been out of donkey’s years now and companies were left to their own discretion to region lock, not to mention that region locking is nothing new to video games. If it was a such a profitable venture, then companies would have been doing this YEARS ago.
will be enjoying my $60 P4A game this coming august
hope you guys enjoy the same
Especially knowing I will be vacationing in the US during August. Would have been ideal to just pick up a copy while I was in town and avoiding any shipping fees. Sigh.
Which is why people are boycotting this, so they know damn well it’s not profitable, because if this went by unnoticed it would’ve been basically a green light for other publishers, which is one of the cores of the issue.
Well what im trying to say is that even if it was reasonably profitable, then it still wouldn’t make much difference to the gaming industry at large. So you’ll just be missing out on a game that you’ll potentially like for no reason. However i do understand where you are coming from since i hold similar views on certain DLC practices and the whole Extend deal and boycotted that myself, which are probably also futile endeavours. If it makes you happy i guess.
So you’re telling me that when every publisher region locked every game for 15 years or more, region locks something like the vast majority of 360 games-with significant exceptions like Sega not locking Virtual On Force because they knew they would never localize it for anywhere outside Japan-and has decided not to bother with it on PS3 and PSP games for the last several years they’re going to look at P4A, a niche RPG spinoff fighting game with full multiple language menus released by a paranoid Japanese publisher that hasn’t allowed dual audio in their previous games purely to prevent reverse importing, and decide they should do it now.
Yeah that seems likely.
WHy don’t you start a petition or something to solve this issue instead of bickering amongst yourself and believing an attempt on boycotting (Seriously reminds me of the whole Mass Effect 3 ending crap days) will satisfy your response on what this game is doing to your region. You know, something more Productive? Boycotting should be stuck with the Civil Rights movements and Involving your job. Nowadays people jump to the boycott card when something does not go the consumer way
Petitions only work when backed up by bad sales figures, as an example how many times have Capcom got away with **** like on disk dlc ect. because people kick up a fuss online, sign petitions, ect. then go out and give them their money on release date anyway.
Anyway, there’s a link to Atlus’s japanese branch’s feedback form in this link (http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dwww.atlus.co.jp%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DftJ%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:eek:fficial%26biw%3D1252%26bih%3D572%26prmd%3Dimvns&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=ja&twu=1&u=http://www.atlusnet.jp/inquiry/index.html&usg=ALkJrhiNC7XkXCKuT5h_GdRubTdQLo9q0w), email goes in second box, discontent goes in the big one.
I really don’t think this is a fight worth fighting. Their reasoning for region locking isn’t absurd, since they are releasing internationally in a relatively short time frame and each region will get a different price point. I will agree that it is unfortunate for certain regions who have inconsistent access to multiple regions, and that this problem should be made aware to Atlus and even stores in those countries, but I don’t really think a boycott is the proper response.
This isn’t a form of censorship or even a form of anti-piracy. It’s just a tool to prevent importing and in turn, the potential destruction of one region’s sales in favor of another’s. Every region will still have the exact same content, and it’s not like they are totally barring out any one region explicitly. Now if this was a japan only release and they region locked it, then I’d agree we should make a big stink about it and show that such practices are terrible choices for everyone, but this… well this isn’t anywhere remotely like that, and I don’t think it’s opening any “floodgates”
Tl;dr: It sucks that atlus is doing this, since it hurts a certain portion of the gaming community, but I highly doubt it’s going to set a trend (unless that trend is region locking for near-simultaneous international releases, which is a rarity to begin with. :U )
Did a ton of people in Japan import KoF XIII from NA? That is the only reason I could think of as to why they would do this.
I dont believe now EVERY game with just release at japan is going to have a region lock because of P4A.
They did it for a game with relase for THREE REGIONS because of these reasons:
-Price differences between japanese and american versions of the game
-So the games can be released almost the same time in two regions
-Dual audio that atlus is so stubborn to NOT DO, but did this time because of arc system
If you wanted your next fighting games from arc or atlus 3 or 4 months away from the japanese release but with region free, so send a message to them that you will wait patiently or import the japanese version, making less profit for the american version, so it has less reasons for them localize the games for here in america because people is going to import from japan so not to wait so many time for the translated version…
And it was a “miracle” by now that any game developer didnot choosed to make a region locked game, it wasnt enforced by sony, they gave a choice and by default it was “region free”. I think you guys are paranoid…but for me if its is region locked but we can get the game almost the same time as japan and with all those extras I am not complaining, P4U will come to japan, usa and europe (maybe australia I think?), the only ones with problems its going to be people from philiphines or other places with weird pratices (seeling one region console and other region games) or who buyed the other region ps3 because was less expensive or something…you wanted a better deal but you cant win at everything.
Its not the end of world, just buy and play the game. Region Lock is bad when its DEFAULT, Sony STILL will give choice for the publishers to make the games region locked or not. Geez, really, then people dont know why gamers are seen as immature by other eyes…
TL;DR
Stay hyped for the game, forget politics.
Not buying this game is not saying that we dont want region locking but that we can wait for 4, 5 months for a localized version without dual audio, shit has already by done even if they make it region free now.
/cosign.
…if this doesn’t give Jack_Frost a reason to reflect upon his lack of proper reasoning, nothing will.
I AM COSIGNING A POZERWOLF POST.