Oh great, Region locked in SEA and EA

[Podmon]

Is there any reason to do this, SEGA?

[the third man]

I'd put my money on The Tetris Company being the reason.

[Polysorbate]

The Tetris license is split between the various highest-bidders including EA, Ubisoft, Sega, and probably others I'm not thinking of. They all have a piece of the development and distribution rights for various regions and platforms. Sometimes it works out fine like Tetris DS, but most of the time there's nonsense like this where platforms and/or regions are prevented from playing various titles.

[maximusZ09]

welp
good job SEGA
you just lost a customer
it will pirated

[Czar]

Originally posted by maximusZ09:

welp
good job SEGA
you just lost a customer
it will pirated

"It's the Tetris company fault"

"Oh well **** you Sega I'll pirate it"


...????

[野暮ったい乞食野良猫]

And no Japanese text. Why, exactly?

[kusoge]

No Japanese language support, no buy.

[Chika Ogiue]

No Japanese text yet they expect us to pay over 10 USD more than everyone else? Thanks for the price gouging SEGA, you lost sales. May as well just buy on PS4. It's cheaper and has full Japanese support. Wasted opportunity with this, that's for sure.

[NikosYote]

Tetris licensing is really f'd up

[vgma2]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

No Japanese text yet they expect us to pay over 10 USD more than everyone else? Thanks for the price gouging SEGA, you lost sales. May as well just buy on PS4. It's cheaper and has full Japanese support. Wasted opportunity with this, that's for sure.

What?
Where the hell are you buying from where PPT costs 10 USD less?

[Freddo]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

No Japanese text yet they expect us to pay over 10 USD more than everyone else? Thanks for the price gouging SEGA, you lost sales. May as well just buy on PS4. It's cheaper and has full Japanese support. Wasted opportunity with this, that's for sure.

No idea where you're getting your pricing info from, but the Steam version of PPT is noticeably cheaper than the PS4 version of PPT, which in turn is cheaper than the Switch version of PPT.

[Chika Ogiue]

Originally posted by vgma2:

What?
Where the hell are you buying from where PPT costs 10 USD less?

I don't think you understood what I was saying.

Originally posted by Freddo:

No idea where you're getting your pricing info from, but the Steam version of PPT is noticeably cheaper than the PS4 version of PPT, which in turn is cheaper than the Switch version of PPT.

For your country perhaps. For Japan, no. With the exception of the Switch release, all other versions can be purchased for far less either new or second hand -- and given how long ago the game released, if you're buying new when a cheaper second hand is available, well that's on you.

My point is that on Steam we pay 37.21% more than the US. 19.5% more than the region with next highest price.

The base price without the discount is 3,490 JPY. PS4 copies sell for 3072 JPY or less, even brand new. Given that the Steam version is digital only, there is no excuse for charging over 2000 JPY for this (should be 1980 JPY).

[凹口凸口凹口凸]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

Originally posted by vgma2:

What?
Where the hell are you buying from where PPT costs 10 USD less?

I don't think you understood what I was saying.

Originally posted by Freddo:

No idea where you're getting your pricing info from, but the Steam version of PPT is noticeably cheaper than the PS4 version of PPT, which in turn is cheaper than the Switch version of PPT.

For your country perhaps. For Japan, no. With the exception of the Switch release, all other versions can be purchased for far less either new or second hand -- and given how long ago the game released, if you're buying new when a cheaper second hand is available, well that's on you.

My point is that on Steam we pay 37.21% more than the US. 19.5% more than the region with next highest price.

The base price without the discount is 3,490 JPY. PS4 copies sell for 3072 JPY or less, even brand new. Given that the Steam version is digital only, there is no excuse for charging over 2000 JPY for this (should be 1980 JPY).

Looks like every japanese publisher hates players from japan. or it's just overheated economy where everything must be as expensive as possible

[baterism]

I saw on steamdb it is region locked in ASEAN but not Vietnam. Is Vietnam considered CIS now?

[Razgallo]

It is available in Humble store
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/puyo-puyo-tetris

I am from SEA region just to clarify.

It doesn't say anything about region locks or anything... yet. I already bought from there, that may or may not be a mistake. Worst possible outcome is on release this game won't activate on my account and I can't refund it.

They don't provide keys yet as its still a pre-order. But from what I read, Humble usually won't have problems with keys... of course there are exceptions. Chroma squad was able to activate properly from a bundle last time, still its kinda lame its region locked on steam.

As for the Japan gets region locked out of their own publishers is I think games there is more expensive than the world. They might not want Japanese gamers to buy foreign products that are less expensive and not in their language.

[Podmon]

Originally posted by Razgallo:

It is available in Humble store
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/puyo-puyo-tetris

I'm interested but it's really risky if the game is true region lock (not just store lock) and Humble won't do the refund.