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Shin Megami Tensei IV: EU release pushed back to Late October
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Holy Order Sol
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Still day 1. The coming months are packed anyway.
The Cool One
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Soon Europe, soon
Black Republican
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honestly if i was still living in the UK i woulda purchased a NA 3DS anyways
guybrushfreeman
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They must know they're just throwing sales away treating people like this right? It's crazy that they keep throwing away the full value of their games by not releasing at the same time worldwide (or at least EU + NA once translated). Not sure when I'll pick it up now. I guess we'll see.
reptilescorpio
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Sure does take a long time for those ones and zeroes to travel across all them oceans.
Wow, I almost got beaten to death by GAF.
I was about to post: Don't all European users have a US account anyway? Why bother releasing it in Europe after all these years?
My mind was still on the PS+ thread, and forgot about region locked =/.
Well, another few months won't kill you guys anyway.
But man, I feel bad for the UK people though.
Translating English back to English must be hard...then again, English is the 2nd language for most if not all of EU.
I was about to post: Don't all European users have a US account anyway? Why bother releasing it in Europe after all these years?
My mind was still on the PS+ thread, and forgot about region locked =/.
Well, another few months won't kill you guys anyway.
But man, I feel bad for the UK people though.
Translating English back to English must be hard...then again, English is the 2nd language for most if not all of EU.
Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
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What's another month matter now? As long as it actually comes out...
As i said in the other thread, at this point, considering the huge fuckup and the fact that the price is not that great, it's basically the price of the physical version in US if you care to look around a bit, i think they should add the DLC on that price.
And i personally am entertained by their excuse but i don't buy it. Not one bit.
And i personally am entertained by their excuse but i don't buy it. Not one bit.
Well...it'll give me more time to finish Nocturne/Lucifer's Call...would have been nice to have something to play on my 3DS though...
If it's actually just back into release limbo I'll have to pick my Atlus boycott back up and I'd rather not...the reasoning for the delay is a load of crap though, I don't see how they could encounter a new problem with a game that was done and translated over a year ago.
Is the DLC even any good? I heard a lot of it just makes the game easier.
If it's actually just back into release limbo I'll have to pick my Atlus boycott back up and I'd rather not...the reasoning for the delay is a load of crap though, I don't see how they could encounter a new problem with a game that was done and translated over a year ago.
Is the DLC even any good? I heard a lot of it just makes the game easier.
Immaculate
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Still not even a clear exact date lol
Even if that new 3DS wasn't region locked, I don't really want to run out and give Atlus money for being terrible at releasing their game.
Yeah pretty much my feeling, gave up caring too much months ago.
Palette Swap
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That's for the surprise move to November!
This has been quite a debacle.
The next logical step should be to have the EU version introduce game breaking bugs. It's been a while.
Linearskillz
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Seriously, why is this so hard for them? I don't understand. There's still no hard date. October's only a month away guys, you should probably have this figured out by now!
Edit: I really want to read a post mortem of everything that went wrong.
Edit: I really want to read a post mortem of everything that went wrong.
Still digital only though right? I've waited so long that I think I'm just going to wait a little longer to see if that "New 3DS is region free" rumour is true. Unlikely, but oh well. I'm not getting invested in a digital only release. I realise that's screwing the people at Atlus who've worked hard to get this over, and making it harder for companies to justify EU releases in the future. But there's a limit to how long you can make fans wait before they can be reasonably expected to either stop caring about the product, or consider importing.
This is especially true considering SMT IV was announced on an EU Nintendo Direct. It was never uncertain if the game was coming over, which made waiting a lot worse.
This is especially true considering SMT IV was announced on an EU Nintendo Direct. It was never uncertain if the game was coming over, which made waiting a lot worse.
Idk, haven't played any of it yet because Europe, but i read that at least one is good.
Infernal Monkey
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"There. It took us over a year, but we finally dumped the American ROM on the European eShop. Wait, shit, there's a huge error here! Delay it further!"
"Phew, that extra month was worth it"
bobawesome
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ShogunDarius
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I wouldn't be surprised if this is delayed again, to come out in the worst period of the year for games releases seems insane
The NA turnaround was something relatively unseen as far as localization times go (especially from ATLUS). Less than 2 months from the JP release.
toastyToast
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It's been more than a year for a while now
Glass Rebel
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This is the most unprofessional shit I've witnessed in a long time. I was going to buy this day one at full price but in "late October" I'll be playing the shit out of Smash Bros., Bayonetta 2 and The Evil Within.
I can't believe this company.
I can't believe this company.
Dragon1893
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I don't care anymore. Everyone involved in this can take the game and shove it where the sun doesn't shine.
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otaku-asia
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Is the game localized for the European market? Anyway, glad to own a US 3DS.
Glass Rebel
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It's not. It's English only like the NA version released in July 2013.
They can't. It's digital only. XD
50% off is my threshold now
That shouldn't really matter though, unless Atlus had to make a pact with the devil to get it out so fast and one of the conditions was to fuck over Europe. No game should take over a year to release in Europe after the US, especially if they're not gonna bother translating it to any other language.
They'll have to install it on an XL and prepare themselves.
Now you're thinking like atlus
Same for me. There are just too many other games coming in October.
"There. It took us over a year, but we finally dumped the American ROM on the European eShop. Wait, shit, there's a huge error here! Delay it further!"
"Phew, that extra month was worth it"
That's totally inaccurate. Index Corporation no longer exists, and those copyrights are invalid. It should now read: ©ATLUS ©SEGA All rights reserved.
Time to delay it for another 6 months!
artsi
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This is all so stupid that this actually sounds like it could be the reason for the delay.
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