Persona 4: Arena (PS3/360)

[kratoscar2008]

The reason doesnt matter, people will just bash at the game and at the end it will hurt the sell of the game greatly, first this is a niche fighthing game and when you see a game like StreetFighterxTekken selling poorly (Its more for the discc locked content than its Bugs apparently) then this one could be a massive failure.

Is like with the disc locked content, Capcom can come with any justification they want but the fact is that people dont want to be screwed and this will be the reason why Arena will more likely to Crash and ATLUS will fall with it.

I love ATLUS and all but due to principles i wont be getting Arena (Not that i wanted too much the game aniway), i say ATLUS should prepare for a Massive Backlash whatever the reason they should come it wont matter, i hope im wrong though.

[myskaros]

I like how people are just assuming that Atlus is full-on stupid and doesn't realize the implications of this decision. Sure, if it turns out the region-lock was for a horrible reason, bash all you want, but you might as well save your breath until we find out exactly why they moved in this direction.

You never know, you might even agree with their reasoning!

[RonXSilva]

I like how people are just assuming that Atlus is full-on stupid and doesn't realize the implications of this decision. Sure, if it turns out the region-lock was for a horrible reason, bash all you want, but you might as well save your breath until we find out exactly why they moved in this direction.

You never know, you might even agree with their reasoning!

Like my reason?

[kratoscar2008]

I like how people are just assuming that Atlus is full-on stupid and doesn't realize the implications of this decision. Sure, if it turns out the region-lock was for a horrible reason, bash all you want, but you might as well save your breath until we find out exactly why they moved in this direction.

You never know, you might even agree with their reasoning!

Does matter the reason of disc locked content?
No.

Does matter the reason of day one DLC?
No.

Does matter the reason of DRM?
No.

Does matter the reason of Region Locking?
HELL NO.

Personally i was on the fence on getting it but this solved the Issue, im not going to support this as the same with other shabby moves and ATLUS will not be different.

If it werent because ATLUS will publish Growlanser WoT i would be really mad.

[AweOfShe]

One of the versions I was going to pick up is already region-fucked to begin with anyways, so I don't think my mind is really changed. But I digress.

[Hero]

Yup. The more I look into this, the more I think Atlus JP may have had something to do this.

I think it's Index, their parent company. Ever since they took direct control of Atlus (instead of letting them operate independently) I haven't liked the direction Atlus has been going at all.

[SuperNipah]

It's very disappointing that Atlus of all companies would be the first to region lock a game. Very disappointing...

I agree that it's not acceptable for a company to do something like this on the PS3, where the games have been region free. However...

I still think I'll be picking up the game. I haven't played P4 yet, but I simply must find out what's going on with the P3 cast. x3 Honestly, given the huge backlash this has been getting Atlus (just look at the P4A thread on NeoGaf!) I don't think they will be repeating this mistake again. And you know, there's still time; maybe the negative reaction will even make them reverse their decision.

[SilverCitizen]

Why does it f'ing matter if it's region locked? It's coming out in all three regions!
I can understand complaints about a game that has no chance of making it to your region being region locked but in this case, what's the problem?
It seems only natural the reason this happened is so they can prevent reverse importation because of the games' near simultaneous releases (Except for the EU version which supposedly comes out withing 6 weeks of the NA version which is a significantly less wait than the norm). It's very cheap to import games from NA and because the NA version is identical to the JP version, all the more reason to region lock it.

[RonXSilva]

Why does it f'ing matter if it's region locked? It's coming out in all three regions!
I can understand complaints about a game that has no chance of making it to your region being region locked but in this case, what's the problem?
It seems only natural the reason this happened is so they can prevent reverse importation because of the games' near simultaneous releases (Except for the EU version which supposedly comes out withing 6 weeks of the NA version which is a significantly less wait than the norm). It's very cheap to import games from NA and because the NA version is identical to the JP version, all the more reason to region lock it.

Yep that's what I was saying

[Laharl]

I'm still getting the game because it still looks awesome, despite not supporting the practice, this isn't a case of on disc DLC at least.

[Beedlebud]

It's coming out in all three regions!

This is why I can't sympathize. if it wasn't, sure I'd feel bad, but it is. People are just impatient. And it's locked in all three regions, so I could see the game coming out in EU soon after it does in Japan and NA.

[myskaros]

Does matter the reason of disc locked content?
No.

Does matter the reason of day one DLC?
No.

Does matter the reason of DRM?
No.

Does matter the reason of Region Locking?
HELL NO.

Personally i was on the fence on getting it but this solved the Issue, im not going to support this as the same with other shabby moves and ATLUS will not be different.

If it werent because ATLUS will publish Growlanser WoT i would be really mad.

Of course it matters. Stop warmongering and think for a second, maybe even you can figure out why.

[Darcnova]

I'll be getting this regardless, and be enjoying the game, instead of complaining...

[Zalok]

http://andriasang.com/con1u7/p4arena_screens/images/24310/

Is that Fuuka under #93?!

[Darcnova]

Yup...looks like it...she'll probably be in as a DLC commentator or whatever