Well that's one shitty generalization.
So are they using this to try and fight overseas key sellers or something?
Next up: $30 English patches for Dragon Quest.
Oh for sure it's an improper term in this case. Just clarifying that there shouldn't be any implication that there is anything wrong with actual grey importing either.
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).
See, the problem here is the game is $50 in Japan on Steam too.
Tomb Raider:
$50, NA: http://store.steampowered.com/app/203160/?cc=us
$50, Japan: http://store.steampowered.com/app/203160/?cc=jp
To prove the thing works, here is an Example of prices being different:
Witcher in NA, $20: http://store.steampowered.com/app/20920/?cc=us
Witcher in Japan, $60: http://store.steampowered.com/app/20920/?cc=jp
Could you show me anther game with a Japanese version page, I don't know of any.That is the Western version. The Japanese version of the game has not been released yet and will not be released for another two weeks.
i understand the fuck up, but it was THEIR fuck-up, I don't see how they can legally remove content from something already sold to customers. If you get something mislabeled at a store, the clerk dials it up, you pay and take it home, you wouldn't expect any law to support the store owner, a few days later, forcing you to reverse the sale, or worse, removing a crucial component rendering your item useless.
I'm inclined to think no country's laws would support this; not the US', not Japan's. Am I missing something here?
Highway robbery, this might give EA an idea. Imagine a game dubbed by Jerry Lewis until you pay 30 dollars to make it stop.
a bit OT, if you downloaded some content to your PC, say language packs here, if it's removed server side on Steam, does that disable what you have too? so those who got it when it was free I imagine can still use it, no?
Welcome to the digital age, I guess. Was the update mandatory? Is this similar to the "Other OS" firmware removal?
a bit OT, if you downloaded some content to your PC, say language packs here, if it's removed server side on Steam, does that disable what you have too? so those who got it when it was free I imagine can still use it, no?
That's some EA level shit right there.
what a weird lucid nightmare i'm having again of the gaming industry going down the drain. and dreaming of typing on gaf.. so pathetic lol
I'm not going to defend this (it's their screw up, they should own up to it), but you'd have to be really stupid or be the kind of blind hater a lot of people nowadays are towards SQEX to think that this will become some kind of standard practice for Square Enix games and their English/western localizations. It won't and anyone who thinks so is just being stupid. It was a screw up that they are fixing with the stupidest possible solution, but it's going to be a screw up that probably won't happen again.so wait, i had japanese voices in my game before, they had them yanked in an "update" and now want me to pay $20 to give them back to me?
can't wait for someone to defend this.
It doesn't (their ports have always been top-notch and the most content-filled versions) and it won't be DLC. This was a mistake and they are handling it badly, but it doesn't imply anything on how they are going to handle stuff like HD ports in the future.the extra international version content of FFX|X-2HD as DLC suddenly made a lot of sense now....
This almost sounds illegal. If the Steam version was advertised with subs and subs are ripped out, then it sounds like a case of false advertising.