Game not available in Japan.

[最初の血 Unforgiven]

Hi guys, I think title says all, does any one know why Dragonball FighterZ is not currently available in Japan?

[Kenshiro]

If you buy a CD Key from another shop, and Steam finds out that the game is banned or not released in your region, might they delete it from your Library?

[Ranmaru Rei]

Originally posted by Kenshiro:

If you buy a CD Key from another shop, and Steam finds out that the game is banned or not released in your region, might they delete it from your Library?

No. I have some games, which are not realeased on Steam in my coutry. General reason was regional publisher does not want them to publish on external shop, you can buy these games only on disk.
Just buy a key without region lock. If region is locked, you cannot run it in your region.

[Kenshiro]

Does anybody know a trusted site in Japan to purchase this game? I've found a site called G2a, but not sure if it can be trusted.

[Kenshiro]

Originally posted by Kenshiro:

Does anybody know a trusted site in Japan to purchase this game? I've found a site called G2a, but not sure if it can be trusted.

Anyway, to be honest I'm not sure if I will purchase it this way, as Endscape mentioned above that Steam could ban me for doing it ?_?

[Genolla]

Originally posted by 最初の血 Unforgiven:

Thank you. I even went to some of the games shops here today, is not available. I decided to just buy it from playstation network and get over with.

To be honest, people who take fighters more seriously play on console.
Any tournament you go to for a fighting game will almost always be using PS4s because they're more reliable+affordable than PCs in general.
inb4 PC master race.

[Sigma skibbidy rizz]

It's because japanese are too busy watching hentai.


They don't need PC for anything else but hentai.

[Genolla]

Originally posted by LastSayianxOnEarth:

It's because japanese are too busy watching hentai.

"Hey mom, I just found out I'm Japanese!!"

[Pnume]

Originally posted by Genolla:

Originally posted by 最初の血 Unforgiven:

Thank you. I even went to some of the games shops here today, is not available. I decided to just buy it from playstation network and get over with.

To be honest, people who take fighters more seriously play on console.
Any tournament you go to for a fighting game will almost always be using PS4s because they're more reliable+affordable than PCs in general.
inb4 PC master race.

They play on console in tournament because they are easier to carry around and they are all the same which eliminate some random issues you don't want to see in an event.

A console reliable? lol?
The minimum life I got out of a PC was 7 years and I could have fixed it if there was a point. The maximum life I got out of a Disk based (CD/DVD ect..) console was 4 years and it was on its last leg the last years. Anything using a disk player is doomed to fail super fast. This thing are not build to last but a PC... it depends how you build it. If you use some no-name crap you get what you paid for.

[Genolla]

Originally posted by Pnume:

Originally posted by Genolla:

To be honest, people who take fighters more seriously play on console.
Any tournament you go to for a fighting game will almost always be using PS4s because they're more reliable+affordable than PCs in general.
inb4 PC master race.

A console reliable? lol?
The minimum life I got out of a PC was 7 years and I could have fixed it if there was a point. The maximum life I got out of a Disk based (CD/DVD ect..) console was 4 years and it was on its last leg the last years. Anything using a disk player is doomed to fail super fast. This thing are not build to last but a PC... it depends how you build it. If you use some no-name crap you get what you paid for.

You had bad experiences with consoles? Wow, I guess they're all trash! :/

[Pnume]

Originally posted by Genolla:

Originally posted by Pnume:

A console reliable? lol?
The minimum life I got out of a PC was 7 years and I could have fixed it if there was a point. The maximum life I got out of a Disk based (CD/DVD ect..) console was 4 years and it was on its last leg the last years. Anything using a disk player is doomed to fail super fast. This thing are not build to last but a PC... it depends how you build it. If you use some no-name crap you get what you paid for.

You had bad experiences with consoles? Wow, I guess they're all trash! :/

Every one I know had problems with consoles reliability. No exception.
And again, I'm not talking about cartriges consoles even if I had some issues with the NES.

[Endscape]

Originally posted by Kenshiro:

Originally posted by Kenshiro:

Does anybody know a trusted site in Japan to purchase this game? I've found a site called G2a, but not sure if it can be trusted.

Anyway, to be honest I'm not sure if I will purchase it this way, as Endscape mentioned above that Steam could ban me for doing it ?_?

They'll ban you if they catch you using a VPN to download games outside of your region. If you can find a game code without the region lock (so you don't have to use a VPN) , you should be fine.

[最初の血 Unforgiven]

Kenshiro you can buy the game on psn store, althrough is fully in Japanese, and english voices are not there like american-european version.
Is funny what you guys say here but i think the reason has something to do with monster hunter game since was released in same day. Since Capcom entered into a cross-licensing with Bandai may be the reason.

[Kenshiro]

Originally posted by 最初の血 Unforgiven:

Kenshiro you can buy the game on psn store, althrough is fully in Japanese, and english voices are not there like american-european version.
Is funny what you guys say here but i think the reason has something to do with monster hunter game since was released in same day. Since Capcom entered into a cross-licensing with Bandai may be the reason.

Thanks for the reply Unforgiven. I'm sorry I'm quite pedantic about having to pay to play PS4 games online when the PS3 was free. So I like to do my online gaming on my PC :D

I guess I will have to wait a little longer for the PC release. I wonder if it's every going to be released over here in Japan, as I don't think the other Dragonball PC games were released on Steam in Japan. By the time I get it, I bet everbody would be really good at the game, so I'll have some catching up to do.

[strike478]

Originally posted by 最初の血 Unforgiven:

Hi guys, I think title says all, does any one know why Dragonball FighterZ is not currently available in Japan?

Since Arcsys and Bamco are Japanese companies I guess we can exclude discrimination.
However when it comes to gaming Consoles are few times more popular than PC's.
Probably they dont want to divide Japanese DBFZ players community into 2 platforms (because Xbox is nearly non existent there).

[Senri]

They know they can't ♥♥♥♥ up a DB game in Japan. This game is full of bugs, has a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ lobby and locking chars behind a paywall won't be recieved well.

People in the west thinks they know DB and will take anything. Like most of Japan hates that ♥♥♥♥♥♥ DB:S Anime, the Manga is OK because changes are made into it to make it better AFTER fan feedback. Having so many DB:S shallow characters is just a cash grab and they don't want to give the impression over there.

They're going to take their time releasing DB in it's country of origin, likely with all the extra characters for one price.