Square Enix blocked FFXVI in my region and other countries

[RedRonin7]

From Pakistan, I am a huge fan of Final Fantasy since the ps2 era, I was very excited for xvi to come on pc, even spent hard earned money to upgrade my rtx 3070 pc, only for SE to ban it for my country because of what "Saudia Arabia" or "UAE" wanted censorship.

I do not like this one bit. Countries like Pakistan do not follow nor care about what UAE/SA censorship board thinks. This is literally the no.1 country that views p*rn you can literally google it if you think I am kidding. We are not living in early 2000s. Gaming is a form of art and escape from real life job struggles here. I hope this comment reaches SE somehow as I love their games and have been supporting them regardless of their games critically turned out to be.

I also hope you all understand my frustration over this situation.

[Bad Distraction Carnifex]

It sucks especially if you want to support the dev by purchasing the game. I guess if you really want it you'll have to figure something out. :)

[Dagný]

It's time to get Elden Ring's horse.

[Axel Nevil]

W + R

steam://install/2515020

[Ih8myjob]

Originally posted by RedRonin7:

From Pakistan, I am a huge fan of Final Fantasy since the ps2 era, I was very excited for xvi to come on pc, even spent hard earned money to upgrade my rtx 3070 pc, only for SE to ban it for my country because of what "Saudia Arabia" or "UAE" wanted censorship.

I do not like this one bit. Countries like Pakistan do not follow nor care about what UAE/SA censorship board thinks. This is literally the no.1 country that views p*rn you can literally google it if you think I am kidding. We are not living in early 2000s. Gaming is a form of art and escape from real life job struggles here. I hope this comment reaches SE somehow as I love their games and have been supporting them regardless of their games critically turned out to be.

I also hope you all understand my frustration over this situation.

No, they didn't. Your region disagrees with things they decided to keep in the game.

Its not them, it's you (your country).

If you think they just randomly selected, or even out of some delusional idea they did it out of spite, countries to not allow their content, you are ill informed.

[Bliksem]

Originally posted by Bad Distraction Carnifex:

It sucks especially if you want to support the dev by purchasing the game. I guess if you really want it you'll have to figure something out. :)

Lmao 🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂

[pakoo]

It is just plain stupid I could buy hentai and sex games even lgbt games but stupid square Enix won’t sell final fantasy 16 in my country

[pakoo]

Originally posted by Ih8myjob:

Originally posted by RedRonin7:

From Pakistan, I am a huge fan of Final Fantasy since the ps2 era, I was very excited for xvi to come on pc, even spent hard earned money to upgrade my rtx 3070 pc, only for SE to ban it for my country because of what "Saudia Arabia" or "UAE" wanted censorship.

I do not like this one bit. Countries like Pakistan do not follow nor care about what UAE/SA censorship board thinks. This is literally the no.1 country that views p*rn you can literally google it if you think I am kidding. We are not living in early 2000s. Gaming is a form of art and escape from real life job struggles here. I hope this comment reaches SE somehow as I love their games and have been supporting them regardless of their games critically turned out to be.

I also hope you all understand my frustration over this situation.

No, they didn't. Your region disagrees with things they decided to keep in the game.

Its not them, it's you (your country).

If you think they just randomly selected, or even out of some delusional idea they did it out of spite, countries to not allow their content, you are ill informed.

No it’s not .show me where Pakistan said they were banning final fantasy 16 ? Don’t make stupid claims without anything to back it up

[alex010300]

Well there is only 1 reason why they did that.

[iameatingjam]

Originally posted by pakoo:

Originally posted by Ih8myjob:

No, they didn't. Your region disagrees with things they decided to keep in the game.

Its not them, it's you (your country).

If you think they just randomly selected, or even out of some delusional idea they did it out of spite, countries to not allow their content, you are ill informed.

No it’s not .show me where Pakistan said they were banning final fantasy 16 ? Don’t make stupid claims without anything to back it up

The game doesn't have to be specifically banned for there to be a reason it would not be legal in its current form, I don't know what that reason is. But I bet its there, I mean otherwise, you are turning down money for no reason. Not a very corporate thing to do. I am curious myself.

[RedRonin7]

Originally posted by pakoo:

It is just plain stupid I could buy hentai and sex games even lgbt games but stupid square Enix won’t sell final fantasy 16 in my country

literally, you can buy a hentai steam game but ff16 is blocked because lgbtq,

[RedRonin7]

Originally posted by Ih8myjob:

Originally posted by RedRonin7:

From Pakistan, I am a huge fan of Final Fantasy since the ps2 era, I was very excited for xvi to come on pc, even spent hard earned money to upgrade my rtx 3070 pc, only for SE to ban it for my country because of what "Saudia Arabia" or "UAE" wanted censorship.

I do not like this one bit. Countries like Pakistan do not follow nor care about what UAE/SA censorship board thinks. This is literally the no.1 country that views p*rn you can literally google it if you think I am kidding. We are not living in early 2000s. Gaming is a form of art and escape from real life job struggles here. I hope this comment reaches SE somehow as I love their games and have been supporting them regardless of their games critically turned out to be.

I also hope you all understand my frustration over this situation.

No, they didn't. Your region disagrees with things they decided to keep in the game.

Its not them, it's you (your country).

If you think they just randomly selected, or even out of some delusional idea they did it out of spite, countries to not allow their content, you are ill informed.

I am assuming you're a redditor there's no way you have such phd information and the audacity to say all that with 100 accuracy its simply terrifying dude

[ValentDs]

we do, but that's censorship and it sucks, you need other ways to play the game, probably ps5 with a imported physical disc (at least in the barely legal way). hope you'll enjoy the game, in one way

[Yew Nough]

Originally posted by Dagný:

It's time to get Elden Ring's horse.

Reminds me of a certain Assassins Creed game

[Pixelbond]

the last option is to wait if they will release it on your area for steam, get the PS5 version to play it or yo ho, yo ho a pirates life for me

[Hamlock]

Was looking forward to trying the demo at least, but for some reason Square Enix decided to really go all out with blocking the game in regions where it shouldn't have been.

I was even playing FF14 the MMO but for some reason they blocked it in my region and now I can't access it anymore even though I downloaded the game.

I'm aware of FF16's LGBT content, but The Last of Us Part 2 has similar content and I can pre-purchase it on Steam just fine. I understand Square Enix's concerns, and yes it's my fault that I live in a middle eastern country, but they took it too far tbh.