How To Obtain And Play This Stateside?

[CT]

Can someone please tell me how I can play this game if I live in the US?

[Ogami]

Hope that there will be Steam keys for the game on the internet in a few weeks to buy and that they are not region locked.
Small hope though for the reasons ResidentSleeper. stated.

[Error]

You can't. Since steam is a big piece of butt about regions all we can do is suffer

[suthi2]

How about let't your friend buy it for you as a gift?

[texhnolyze]

Originally posted by Erroratu:

You can't. Since steam is a big piece of butt about regions all we can do is suffer

It's not Steam's fault. It's licensing issue, the same has been happening on consoles since forever.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by suthi2:

How about let't your friend buy it for you as a gift?

You cant gift region locked games outside that region.

[Outsider]

If company doesn't want to sell me their product, it's their choice.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Außenseiter:

If company doesn't want to sell me their product, it's their choice.

I am pretty sure they would love to sell it to you, they just cant do it legally.
They dont have the rights for the included anime series for western regions.

[Outsider]

Well that's a shame isn't it?

[rolfxen]

Blame Robotech for this

[[LUE] Brunnen-G Warrior]

Originally posted by Außenseiter:

If company doesn't want to sell me their product, it's their choice.

licensing, its complicated.

[BDtetra]

Honestly I can buy it so I would love to help some people. Unfortunately steam got rid of keeping games in your inventory so there is no safe way of trading games anymore (you can only gift games directly now), which is kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[[SIN] Gok]

What I know is that those licenses for some series in the game were sold to licensees on each region and they are the sold distributor for that region. Some of the licensees for old series was sold with different agreements and terms of distributions some stated like "Licensee is the sole distributor for this series in this region" that kinda thing. So to fix this stuffs, they need lawyers to re-negotiate all the previous agreements and get them to sign the new one. Sound like something really painful to do to be really honest.

[Sabin Stargem]

Originally posted by BDtetra:

Honestly I can buy it so I would love to help some people. Unfortunately steam got rid of keeping games in your inventory so there is no safe way of trading games anymore (you can only gift games directly now), which is kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

The courts in France recently ruled that games sold by Steam are a good, not a subscription nor license. As such, people by French law can resell their digital games. I am hoping that a side-effect of this is that French gamers can resell their copies of region-locked games to other people outside of France.

While certainly grey market, it would be a far better situation than the crud that Valve is trying to push with region locking.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8q7En2pMQ

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Sabin Stargem:

The courts in France recently ruled that games sold by Steam are a good, not a subscription nor license. As such, people by French law can resell their digital games. I am hoping that a side-effect of this is that French gamers can resell their copies of region-locked games to other people outside of France.

No they can not. Its not legally binding yet. Valve has already appealed the decision.
It will be years till any laws come out of that, if at all.
Because the EU courts and some individual country courts like Germany have already judged in favor of Valve, in that the resell of games is not allowed on Steam.