Conflict NZ
Member
I'm really worried about Persona 4 Golden now. If they region lock it then I doubt I will ever buy an Atlus product again.
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Persona 4: Arena Region-Locked on PS3 - Confirmed [PR statement in OP]
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I'm in the EU and I own a US copy of Katamari Forever. Has the same symbol on it that you've been talking about and it plays perfectly on my EU PS3.
ranmafan
Member
I can honestly say they aren't region locked. I live in Japan, own a Japanese ps3 and have most of those games from the us. They aren't region locked at all.
My PS3 library has a mix of R1, R2, R3 and even R4 games. All of them work perfectly.
Fair enough. The point is it's possible and Atlus isn't exactly famous for being dishonest, so...
BlazingDarkness
Member
I have the Japanese version of FFXIII, it aint region locked.
SolidSnakex
Member
As pointed out above, Sony gave publishers the ability to region lock if they wanted to. No one chose to do it. Midway was the only company that ever floated the idea, and that was only because of the BR combo for Stranglehold/Hard Boiled. In the end they decided against region locking the game.
MrChocolate
Member
...something fishy is going on?
It's coming. Ghostlight are publishing it. The reason for the delay is that they needed a Nintendo 3DS publishing license or something, I believe. I remember reading that they'd acquired said license one day, and then a few days later they announced the Devil Survivor games were coming here, including Overclocked.
As for a date? "2012" is the word.
R_thanatos
Member
this wasnt the answer just maybe one of the reasons involved
Delusibeta
Banned
If they release this year, I'll be very surprised. Also their translators will need a raise. On release dates, they seem to take a "we'll announce a release date when it's done, and by which we mean when we start getting stock for our online shop" policy, which I can respect.
I've owned both Final Fantasy XIII and Soul Calibur IV US versions. And I've played them both just fine on my European PS3. Trust what you will, but those games are not region locked. You really should listen to the people here telling you that they aren't.
And Uncharted 3 EU version has a Region 2 marking on it. Still works on US consoles, a friend of mine borrowed it. The only thing I think those damn markings do is telling you from what region the game is, not that it's locked it.
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
As I said early, the first BB was a special one. While the US Version was released, ASW was looking for a new publishing partner in Europe. Zen United took over and since then there was almost no delay between Europe and US.
Samurai_Heart
Member
Ghostlight has announced they are releasing it, but yet again no release date..... and too be honest they (Atlus) are supporting the European Publisher this way but like I've been raging everyone but Pal region has a release date.
toythatkills
Member
I really don't think that can be the case. Do people know this first hand, for a fact?
Microsoft genuinely do leave this up to publishers, and I don't see why EA would choose to region lock the Xbox 360 versions of their games while happily leaving the PS3 ones alone. It makes literally no sense at all.
While no games (that I'm aware of) on PS3 are currently region locked, you generally can't buy DLC for games that you're playing out of region. Given DLC is becoming an increasingly significant component of game releases, it's less and less likely I'll choose to import a title over buying it locally. Kinda like a soft-region lock, I guess.
Although it's still quite likely, as I live in NZ, where we frequently get royally shafted in terms of pricing, timeliness, and even basic availability. Sigh.
Don't worry brother, I'm not that determined not to. I'm also not so gullible as to believe everything I read online whether it's being said by five people or fifty. But people have made their point, I admit.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Yeah, it's like the one major thing Sony got RIGHT this gen! >>;
Same. :/
H_Prestige
Banned
I don't know how the hell Atlus is doing this. It's been six years since the ps3 came out and to this day there is not a single region locked game. If it were publisher choice, then there would be just as many locked ps3 games as on 360. Why would a publisher choose to lock a game on 360 but not lock the same game on ps3?
Overreact much.
Because Microsoft's mandates probably aren't a copy paste of Sony's, for one.
So there's no reason for them not to give a release date, they've been showing off playable builds at tiny tournaments around the UK. There's no excuse for not telling us SOMETHING.
Fair enough. Then again people here have no reason to trick you either. =)
But I do understand you, I'd be a bit cautions myself probably.
Still I do hope this isn't true, that they are going to region lock this game. Not that I am interested in it. But I've always respected that companies have had their games region free.
Then again, didn't the same thing pop up about Bayonetta when it was about to be released? And that was proven wrong... Guess we'll just wait and see..
BlazingDarkness
Member
Not really, it's a completely dick move
SolidSnakex
Member
It's difficult to find specific interviews from the 05-06 period, but this is close to confirming the whole "They can do it if they want" aspect
Companies went region free on the PS3 because Sony lead the way. All of their games are region free.
I'm the same. I was probably going to wait for the PAL release of this anyway, just to support more timely releases of Atlus games in PAL-land (just as I bought Persona 2 Innocent Sin from Ghostlight due to how close to the US release it was -- about a month and five days which isn't terrible by Atlus' standards). However, PS3 has been a pretty neat machine for its lack of region lock, and I don't want that to be ruined by stupid business decisions.
Personally, as a relatively heavy importer, I can't support a regressive move like this.
H_Prestige
Banned
But he didn't answer the part about region locking. He just said they want to have every localization on disc and global release dates for all games moving forward (which obviously didn't turn out to be the case). You could still have a "global" SKU that's locked to its region.
I also doubt if publishers had freedom to lock their games, they would choose not to simply because Sony wasn't doing it. Why would they care what Sony was doing with its own games?
WrenchNinja
Member
That sucks for importers. Not cool.
BlackIronCount
Member
seriously atlus?!
KimonoNoNo
Member
Strong Yen weak Dollar, yeah I'm going with the fear of reverse importation back to Japan as the reason.
Many US anime blurays don't come with the original Japanese dub for precisely this reason.
Many US anime blurays don't come with the original Japanese dub for precisely this reason.
foomfoom415
Member
I wouldn't be so quick to thank all publishers. While SCEA does allow region locking, I've seen more than one title fail certification due to being region locked at submission. My guess is publishers need to justify the region locking and (thankfully) for Sony, "we want to stop importers" isn't a good enough reason.
Not really, if all their future products are region locked why would he buy them if he can't play them on his diff region systems.
Wouldn't surprise me if that is the case. Then again, they could have locked that option instead of putting a region lock on the game. If it turns out to be true.
BlazingDarkness
Member
They should just remove the Japanese text option from the US version, instead of locking the region. Why have it there in the first place?
I tried cancelling my pre-order on Vg+ and got a mail back saying they were checking with Atlus to see what the story was
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
*looks at anime bluray collection*
?
Actually what I've seen more of is stuff being withheld from licensing until the entire show is out in Japan for a little bit so that people who want it will buy it at the time as there's "no other option" (like K-On!)
SolidSnakex
Member
Well, many believe publishers will follow the platform holder. Go back to the GC days when Nintendo released the network adapter but didn't really support it with their own games. The system would go on to have really poor support for that device. Many believe that's because Nintendo didn't bother to support it, so why would third party devs?
Like I said earlier, we know Midway was going to region lock Stranglehold but changed their mind because of the quick internet backlash, and now we see Atlus doing it with P4U. So, I think that would show that it's optional.
Uhh, most PS3 games specify region codes on the box and none of them are actually LOCKED to that specific region. I own quite a few imports myself as do many others here and all of us can confirm that region locks are not an issue.
Ragingnight
Member
A fighting game with 30-40 hours of story mode? Atlus said it was their biggest localization
And for people skipping out on this, well your loss on a good game.