can we petition to remove the region lock?

[Kana]

it's no fair ps5 as no such thing but pc players suffer this issue. game is very fun to play with other people but it sucks to have a large majority of them seperated.

[Mia Ishata]

I support this.

[SiFi]

Wont do anything. Region locking is complicated, and often because of laws. Its not just a flick of a switch to get them changed, or some random arbitrary reason.

[Oku]

Region locking is almost always done due to major conflicts with laws between regions, a petition really won’t do anything if it’s already in place. How bad is it by the way? Is it region locked between western nations or is it just the usual suspects like Russia and China being in their own bubble?

[Snowlili]

Originally posted by Oku:

Region locking is almost always done due to major conflicts with laws between regions, a petition really won’t do anything if it’s already in place. How bad is it by the way? Is it region locked between western nations or is it just the usual suspects like Russia and China being in their own bubble?

It's very weird, it just goes by whatever region you're using for your steam download server. you can switch to other regions by changing that, which makes me think it likely wasn't done on purpose, but who knows at this rate.

[Parin]

Originally posted by SiFi:

Wont do anything. Region locking is complicated, and often because of laws. Its not just a flick of a switch to get them changed, or some random arbitrary reason.

Originally posted by Ax:

Probably will never be removed.

PC games and region are very intertwined with the laws. Not sure about playstation. But its probably because the original GBF franchise itself already has multiple copyrights existing in different regions, and for playstation they can publish the game in every region's store at once, like switch.

Originally posted by Oku:

Region locking is almost always done due to major conflicts with laws between regions, a petition really won’t do anything if it’s already in place. How bad is it by the way? Is it region locked between western nations or is it just the usual suspects like Russia and China being in their own bubble?

this is not about sales region lock article

about multiplayer server region lock

Originally posted by SiFi:

Wont do anything. Region locking is complicated, and often because of laws. Its not just a flick of a switch to get them changed, or some random arbitrary reason.

Just a few click download server can change multiplayer region.

[Kptn Howdy]

if region locking was because of laws they'd also do it in other games+have done it for the console version too lol

[SiFi]

Originally posted by Snowlili:

Originally posted by Oku:

Region locking is almost always done due to major conflicts with laws between regions, a petition really won’t do anything if it’s already in place. How bad is it by the way? Is it region locked between western nations or is it just the usual suspects like Russia and China being in their own bubble?

It's very weird, it just goes by whatever region you're using for your steam download server. you can switch to other regions by changing that, which makes me think it likely wasn't done on purpose, but who knows at this rate.

Region locking is because of laws, thats just how it is. Accept it, hate it, then look up the billion of videos on youtube that explain the why.

[Kptn Howdy]

Originally posted by SiFi:

Region locking is because of laws, thats just how it is. Accept it, hate it, then look up the billion of videos on youtube that explain the why.

absolutely nothing about the game would require a region lock to be necessary, don't be obtuse and try to think for a single moment why the game wouldn't be region locking matchmaking on consoles

[Tiasmoon]

Its not because of laws, its because they are probably using steam as platform for the MP.
MHW did the same. Ment that if you didnt have your download region set to a major location (like for example London) then you would have a hard time finding matchups.

[Kyutaru]

Originally posted by Snowlili:

Originally posted by Oku:

Region locking is almost always done due to major conflicts with laws between regions, a petition really won’t do anything if it’s already in place. How bad is it by the way? Is it region locked between western nations or is it just the usual suspects like Russia and China being in their own bubble?

It's very weird, it just goes by whatever region you're using for your steam download server. you can switch to other regions by changing that, which makes me think it likely wasn't done on purpose, but who knows at this rate.

That might be simple to explain, actually. The game may use Steam itself for matchmaking. It shows your Steam profile name in-game and games like Dark Souls allowed you to block Steam users to not get invaded by them. So if they're just matching within region, they might not want to pay to use Steam's global services.

[SiFi]

Originally posted by Kptn Howdy:

Originally posted by SiFi:

Region locking is because of laws, thats just how it is. Accept it, hate it, then look up the billion of videos on youtube that explain the why.

absolutely nothing about the game would require a region lock to be necessary, don't be obtuse and try to think for a single moment why the game wouldn't be region locking matchmaking on consoles

Ok, TL:DR. One: You are blatantly wrong, so stay quiet.
Two: Region locking isnt about what you think it is. Laws about what services are used by who, on what platform, with any copyright, trademark, and any other legal ownership, trade laws in the countries/regions and deals made to use literal fkn cables, all make for what can and cant be region locked on what.
Three: I reiterate, stay quiet, with the bonus of "take this opportunity to learn"
Four: Deals between large companies with international law are not something that you can even start to understand. Even the 'experts' have a hard time keeping track of this ♥♥♥♥.
Five: Was going to make another jab at you, but I dont really think I need to again.

[Snowlili]

Originally posted by SiFi:

Originally posted by Snowlili:

It's very weird, it just goes by whatever region you're using for your steam download server. you can switch to other regions by changing that, which makes me think it likely wasn't done on purpose, but who knows at this rate.

Region locking is because of laws, thats just how it is. Accept it, hate it, then look up the billion of videos on youtube that explain the why.

Bro has no idea what he's talking about. Explain why Monster Hunter World isn't region locked if it was because "laws" LMFAO

[Oku]

Originally posted by Snowlili:

Originally posted by SiFi:

Region locking is because of laws, thats just how it is. Accept it, hate it, then look up the billion of videos on youtube that explain the why.

Bro has no idea what he's talking about. Explain why Monster Hunter World isn't region locked if it was because "laws" LMFAO

Because different games have different content and themes and sometimes violate different region obscenity laws or fall under some weird perview about certain ratings within that region requiring unique server regions for multiplayer?

This isn't an uncommon or obtuse thing, this is how things have been for decades.

[Snowlili]

Originally posted by Oku:

Originally posted by Snowlili:

Bro has no idea what he's talking about. Explain why Monster Hunter World isn't region locked if it was because "laws" LMFAO

Because different games have different content and themes and sometimes violate different region obscenity laws or fall under some weird perview about certain ratings within that region requiring unique server regions for multiplayer?

This isn't an uncommon or obtuse thing, this is how things have been for decades.

That historically has mostly applied to Chinese releases of video games (hell, even MHW is region locked for China only because they are run through Wegame due to Chinese censorship laws)

The global release for Relink is the same as the JP one, and there is literally no reason that Americans and Europeans cannot play together without switching their download server (which again, the fact that you can do this at all to circumvent it makes me feel it wasn't intentional).

Your argument double falls flat when you realize the game is not region locked on PS5/PS4. So no, you do not know what you're talking about, please stop spreading misinformation.

[Soulgain]

Region lock in MHW-kind of game is absolutely uncalled for, lmao.