Quote Originally Posted by Zumi View Post
SE can't do this unless they pay MS for licensing fees for the NA and EU versions. The chances of that happening are slim to none given very few people with the NA version would use it.
No, the IME is already built-into Windows for any program to use. The issue isn't that they have to pay MS, it's that on the PS2, the IME is different and does require a license, to a company called ATOK. It's about $60 a user. There's also the additional cost of tech support if someone accidentally hits the key combination to toggle the IME and has no idea how to use it, and is stuck in Japanese text input mode. They figure if you know enough Japanese to type it, you'll install the Japanese client and just read all the Japanese text there.