NA PS2 - One Last Shot

[Luvbunny]

They should let PS2 users in US/EU to purchase content ID via Playonline service and download it there. Or buy the content ID via SE website and give them a download link separately so they can burn it on a CD and install it on PS2. Digital distribution may be the best and cheapest method to reach those who are still playing it on PS2. I wonder why they dont just make the japanese disc as universal one and sell the PAL and NTSC version (without region lock). Probably bureaucracy red tape that prevent this, oh well, hope you guys get some resolution. Or go with options XYZ, lol, buy xbox or PC

[Kirito_Wind]

They should let PS2 users in US/EU to purchase content ID via Playonline service and download it there. Or buy the content ID via SE website and give them a download link separately so they can burn it on a CD and install it on PS2. Digital distribution may be the best and cheapest method to reach those who are still playing it on PS2. I wonder why they dont just make the japanese disc as universal one and sell the PAL and NTSC version (without region lock). Probably bureaucracy red tape that prevent this, oh well, hope you guys get some resolution. Or go with options XYZ, lol, buy xbox or PC

That is more a hardware limitation than anything and also makes holes for exploits... For one the ps2 does not have the ability to read burned discs like a ps2 game, it thinks of it like a video. Second you need a special code and ribbon on the disc for the ps2 to read it, there is apparently no region free code and ribbon... The only way they could add something similar to what you said would be to allow the game to read USB's and allow the patch to come from there. But that would essentially open the game for exploits and give everyone with a ps2 a free copy SoA software (although they technically couldn't use it without option in account). Personally I would just prefer the ability to log into a japanese version of the game with an english account, since that seems the most doable...

[Kaisha]

They should let PS2 users in US/EU to purchase content ID via Playonline service and download it there. Or buy the content ID via SE website and give them a download link separately so they can burn it on a CD and install it on PS2.

Or just make it a mandatory patch so they only have to deploy one update for PS2 users, rather than having to do both a "Expansion installed/Expansion not installed" package.

The expansion was only a 200mb download for PC, which was about the size of the patch to begin with, and PS2 updates are smaller than PC also. Really do not know why they had to ship a disc for this on 360 outside of the Seekers Edition which included all prior content. It should have just been a serial key you pay for.