this company is beyond retarded.
when went full r when 3.7 million insit enough sales for TR
this company is beyond retarded.
All of this shit is just a result of the ridiculous game prices in Japan. Of course, this is a particularly egregious instance.
Please don't call it "grey" importing, that could imply that there is anything at all wrong with it. Which there isn't. It's also not a problem for certain countries, it's a problem for certain companies.
when went full r when 3.7 million insit enough sales for TR
The power of GAF! Really though this is fucking absurd. I so wish times were different. Focus groups, big budgets with no risk, shitty DLC and anti-consumer measures are starting to turn things sour for me...Let's fire this off to multiple sources and see what happens
SE:"Oh it was a mistake on our part! We have now made it free"
In English please.when went full r when 3.7 million insit enough sales for TR
In English please.
Bravo.Send 30 bucks to his paypal account.
If you don't like it, don't buy it.
Wait wait wait... am I understanding this right?
- Game releases in Japan with Japanese support
- Game patched to remove Japanese support
- Japanese support now sold separately for $30
Please tell me I completely misunderstood... please tell me this isn't real...
People need to stop saying this. So no one is allowed to complain, it's just a "Don't like it, don't buy it, don't complain about it"?
Doing that means word of mouth would be nothing but praise or indifference and the company would always point to how no one has complained to them, all they hear is good things.
People who don't like it, won't buy it but they will also complain and they are well within their rights to complain if they find a practice or product to be worthy of complaining such as this practice (Taking something out with a patch and selling it back at a premium)
Stop laying down the astroturf.Hello, I am a shill
nope, I just don't to support these kind of practices.
I see Neogaf's lynch mob is at it again, I wonder how will get fired because of you sons of bitches.
Remember how the recent financial statement depicted that SE would fall short on their expected profits (which is counted as expected losses)? Well they have to make part of that estimated profit back somehow.
SE is a corporation that exists to make money and are well within their rights to charge whatever they feel is justifiable. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Go out to some cabin for a month w/o wi-fi instead of raising stink over it here. Do you want NeoGAF to be responsible for another Orth like debacle where an irascible Cliffy B points out the gall of the internet and GAF to challenge norm of a corporation trying to be the vanguard in introducing language pack for that kind of price?
Give me a break. Attacking a company's faceless decision is hardly the same as personally attacking someone over their public comments on twitter.I see Neogaf's lynch mob is at it again, I wonder how will get fired because of you sons of bitches.
Wada left a note.This is Wada's parting shot at everyone.
Okay, let me explain how this fuck up probably happened. Please bear with me, because it's going to sound really stupid, and I'm not defending Square Enix here, only explaining the nature of the fuck up.
- Tomb Raider comes out in Japan on April 25 2013, at the price of 8000yen (80 USD).
- The Japanese release includes voices in English or Japanese, and Japanese text. This differs it from the version sold in US and Europe where the voice options are only in English.
- Somehow it appears the PC Tomb Raider release on Steam was available for purchase in Japan at the US/Europe release price of 50 USD when it was released last month.
- Additionally it appears that someone fucked up massively and included all the language content meant for the Japanese release along with the package.
- So for a period of time Japanese fans were able to buy Tomb Raider on Steam for 50 bucks, and enjoy Japanese language support, a whole month before the release in Japan.
- Someone found out, panicked, and removed the language content support so Japanese consumers would no longer be able to buy a fully functional Japanese version of Tomb Raider at almost half the price and a month before it is released in Japan.
- Now that the Japanese launch is finally arriving, they are offering the option for anyone who used the previous "exploit" to top up the 30 dollars of difference to regain access to the Japanese language options.
From Square Enix's perspective, what they were doing was closing a reverse import regional loophole, and now they are offering an olive branch to fans who used that exploit so they don't have to sit on a useless 50 buck English-only Tomb Raider. From the perspective of everyone else, Square Enix is scamming everyone.
ROFLMAO.
From Square Enix's perspective, what they were doing was closing a reverse import regional loophole, and now they are offering an olive branch to fans who used that exploit so they don't have to sit on a useless 50 buck English-only Tomb Raider. From the perspective of everyone else, Square Enix is scamming everyone.
ROFLMAO.
I think the FFX DLC is starting to look more plausible now.
Stop laying down the astroturf.
"Only for 30$ you can also protect japanese Lara. Please be excited."
Most companies just acept the fact that they fucked up and live with it, but this... this is just plain stealing from buyers.
still though, 30 bucks for just a few subtitle text seem like a giant rip off
I mean, seriously, 30$ worth of voice acting?. Didn't know Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Leonardo Dicaprio and Matt Damon where in charge of the japanese dubbing...
From Square Enix's perspective, what they were doing was closing a reverse import regional loophole, and now they are offering an olive branch to fans who used that exploit so they don't have to sit on a useless 50 buck English-only Tomb Raider. From the perspective of everyone else, Square Enix is scamming everyone.
ROFLMAO.
30$ For a dub?
I like the idea of lenguage packs and I'm willing to pay (if they are just not holded back from the main game) but 30? Lol no
Edit: The Japanese version... That makes it pretty fucked up...
Why would you like the idea of paying for language packs when games usually support more than one for free?
I'm pretty sure games are advertised and sold "as is" and that would include everything mentioned or not.I think that's what most companies would do, and that wouldn't be seen as -that- bad of a thing, since that "extra" feature was either promised nor advertised anywhere.
I'm not so sure about this. If you go to the Square Enix website a post from February 20th ( http://www.sqex-ee.jp/2013/02/post-162.html) states - via google translate...stuff
I will inform you about the difference between "Tomb Raider (TOMB RAIDER)" will be released (Thu), the specification of the overseas edition April 25, 2013.
[For voice]
Japanese / English Audio:
Subtitles: Japanese
※ can switch the audio of the English / Japanese option settings in the game is possible.
I mean, seriously, 30$ worth of voice acting?. Didn't know Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Leonardo Dicaprio and Matt Damon where in charge of the Japanese dubbing...