PSO2 "Not-so" Global release - Region locked out of my country and it still says no ip restrictions

[Shandreyes]

title says it all, it kinda sucks that other countries from EU and SEA can't access the steam page just because it's region locked, and yet the devs didn't realize of the major screw up they just made themselves. MS store version nukes itself, tweaker still doesn't work for me cause i tried.

You can't call it "Global" and have EU and SEA regions locked out.

[BearPajamaGod!]

Steam has to listen to your countries laws and due to this having gacha elements with outfits you probably aren't allowed to play this on Steam.

[Mori Hui - Koshirei]

there never was any intention of it being a global release.
Even the release on microsoft store a month or two ago was region locked for everyone besides USA.
Btw I'm from EU ( france ) and can download the game easily, try changing the region of your steam account this might work.

[Shandreyes]

but wouldn't be a bannable offence?

[Aphelium]

Originally posted by Shandreyes:

but wouldn't be a bannable offence?

If that was the case, a lot of us would be banned since, technically, the jp server wasn't global either.

[Mori Hui - Koshirei]

idk, if you are scared then don't play it yet. I heard the tweaker guys will work with the steam release now so wait for them to update their client

[Aphelium]

Yeah, they're already working on that for what i've seen. The launcher has a "steam" button since last patch, tho it wasn't enabled.

[Kossy]

It was never going to be 100% global.

SEA has issues because of the SEA publishers being terrible and making an exclusive stake on it. That's also why SEA was IP blocked from JP servers as it was part of their contract. With several other countries it's due to a plethora of various reasons. There's been a list with all the countries it would be available for since the Steam release was announced.

That said, they are working towards making it closer to Global so give it time.

[Lyote]

They don't region lock. For the MS store version, You literally just change the website from your local language to the US one at the bottom of the page.

Then add PSO2 to your MS account and boom, play PSO2. The only thing the MS Store will block beyond that is purchasing AC, which can be gotten around via USD Gift Cards and the Xbox phone app.

Australia wasn't initially "allowed" to play at launch either, But just doing as i described above and I've been playing without need for a VPN since PC launch happened. Just had to grit my teeth and buy gift cards from a grey market because Amazon and playasia region lock payment methods.

Steam version should work the same way as the MS Store version, just VPN (Any free trial one would work) to set your region to the US or wherever, Add PSO to your Library while in the VPN, and then the game should be playable for you without said VPN.

Though I'd imagine you'd need the VPN to buy AC.

EDIT: Huh, Apparently Steam likes to issue account bans for using a VPN to slide around region locks. Maybe don't do that.

In light of that discovery, i would actually recommend using Tweaker to get the MS Store version and play using that.
When your region gets added to Steam, You can link your MS version to Steam and keep all your progress.

[Widget]

Downloading right now from Poland, works great.

[Shandreyes]

well went to check if i can change the store region on steam and well... it won't allow me

[Widget]

What country are you from, other guy from France also managed to download so EU works fine.

[Shandreyes]

I'm from Malta, and it wasn't included in the region list

[Outsider]

It's not called global anywhere.
It's steam release of NA version.

[Shandreyes]

Netherlands and Belgium as well aren't included in the region list, possibly due to the lootbox law

[Shandreyes]

Originally posted by Außenseiter:

It's not called global anywhere.
It's steam release of NA version.

their twitter says it is :/