Konami is intent on region locking Japanese players out of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

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• NeryK@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bottom line: Konami is a weird company making odd calls and has been for a long time. Someone in charge likely decided 11 years ago that MGRR should not be released on PC in Japan and that’s all there is to it.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This has happened before, for games from other publishers, as per the article. I don’t remember all of the reasons for it, but if I’m not mistaken, this is why Shogun: Total War 2 has a blood DLC for a few dollars, so that they can make everything but the DLC available in Japan.

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    • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s Australia. They have weird anti-violence laws, and God-fucking-forbid anyone learn that blood exists. I think their stupid drug portrayal laws are why the first Fallout had to call them “chems” instead. It’s all pretty stupid moral crusade bullshit.

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    FucKonami

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is probably due to music licensing.

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  • Badeendje@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Piracy is a service issue.

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  • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So… Why in Vietnam too? I had to get the MGS trilogy on Switch instead.

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