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https://www.gamespress.com/release.asp?c=c537d3--186180
"*The Xbox Series X, Xbox One X, Windows 10 PC, and Steam versions of Yakuza: Like a Dragon will release simultaneously in Western territories only. Details on the Asian region Xbox Series X, Xbox One X, Windows 10 PC, and Steam releases of Yakuza: Like a Dragon will be announced at a later date."
Why though?
This doesn't make sense, does Sega not own rights to the franchise? It has been for every other Yakuza games here, and I hear nothing about problems with their dev teams or anything pertaining rights to SEA region.
Making the game completely blocked in not only SEA, but the whole Asia would incur the wrath Squeenix saw when they released Automata on Steam.
Again, really does not see the reason to block the game from certain regions. If anything, this is a bad rep a fellow Japanese AAA has experienced and definitely shouldn't be taken as a stellar example to follow.
I still don't get it. There are multiple ways to do this, but they chose to do this instead while barely giving official words to people (only out of select game journalism sites).
Sure, Sega might not have known this, but the whole Southeast Asia region isn't new to Steam region locking abuse by Japanese companies. There's Metal Gear Rising by Konami back in early 2010s (which is still not available here and also one of the most pirated titles ), then there are also multiple Square Enix titles that are so troubled, they had to get Bandai Namco to localize it for us since last year.
They could've made two separate IDs (which doubles the entry price & future maintenance, but what does 200USD upfront even mean for Sega?) and keep the region locking. Or they could've just delayed it altogether so it becomes a simultaneous worldwide release, like AAAs love to market.
But they chose the silent, slightly anti-consumer way of doing this. Sure, I'm approaching this calmly, but I know that thousands of players from Asia would blindly rage the moment they found out that Yakuza 7 got region blocked, regardless of reasoning. It happened to get Nier:Automata to release months after everyone else, it would happen to Yakuza 7 too even though it'll only be a misunderstanding.
I'm sure this is 100% Sony Japan/Asia and Sega Japan Deals for EA & SEA exclusivity in exchange with Sony do localization for Korean and traditional Chinese language. As same as Nier Automata (with SE).
Proof: Nier A at the time of released at PC absence of korean and chinese language which available for PS4 version of the game. And SE even deleted the PC regional EA-SEA prices and change it all to be par with the western one.
Sony (in)famously known for like to make exclusive deal for Japanese made games (MHW-Asia region, NiOh-western region, NierA- Asia, Sakura Taisen/Wars-Asia, Persona 5 royal-worldwide, etc )
Oh, dan itu juga bikin kabarku sama sekali tidak baik-baik saja lmao. Thanks for the info though, I really need it when companies do ♥♥♥♥ like this.
As you can see with Playstation Asia/Japan internal first party studio output this gen:
- Gravity Daze/Rush 2
- The Last Guardian
- Bloodborne only for music and producer role (all other role especially production ones: Creative/Scripting/Art and Director all by FS) thats why they never can make BB2 or remake the first game without FS
That's it, three high profile game only in the span of 6-7 years of this gen so their Japan/Asia main strategy is to spend all their budget money into make an exclusive deal (timed or full) with mid and big third party Japanese studios in order to add more "value" to their platform.
From Software has become Souls Software ever since 2015, so it's not exactly a hard feat getting them to make another Souls-like game. Activision got them, Bamco got them again (after saying they'll "part ways" because of DS). Certainly easier than making them fulfill their own promise of another Armored Core game.
I dunno how the law goes internationally, but exclusivity without making it clear should be illegal.
On IGN Summer of Gaming today , They said Y:LaD will be Day 1 for all platform incl. Steam.
Please SEGA, Day 1 too for Asian Region. Or at least, give a store access for wishlist soon or later so we can access the store content first.
So far, there's no info update on its release date--both on Steam & SteamDB. They have been tinkering with it; with the package receiving multiple updates. But without a price tag, we can't really figure out where it's blocked and where it isn't.
SEGA moderators, if you read this, you really need to contact your higher ups and fix this up.