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Sony does not remove purchase restrictions from Helldivers 2 on steam and also adds them to Ghost of Tsushima (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Source: https://twitter.com/SteamDB/status/1788981898108182681

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Am I crazy or does that screenshot have Japan in it? Why would a Japanese company ban a game about Japan in Japan?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Weren't they saying they had a separate version or something?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, for some reason Japanese games often have a separate package on steam which includes Japanese.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's probably just hard to include both character sets since the game was originally made in English with specific programming for Roman lettering. Same thing with GTA V. Any Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters just turned into squares.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

It's possible, but I doubt that is a problem these days with Unicode.

Someone mentioned something about copyright for the Japanese voice actors. That seems odd too, but it seems plausible.

[–] 3volver 11 points 4 months ago

Because corporate greed has no boundaries.