Bought KFC meal but cannot register emote

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

Promotional codes are usually region locked because of various legal restrictions in many countries.

Support is not going to be able to assist in this case. You would have to purchase a JP game license to use the emote.

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Support might be able to make a suggestion to change the documentation to actually include the information, instead of leaving it out.

But yha, thanks to the OP for being the person to post, in public, on this forum, to show others that it IS region locked. We'd assumed, but ... assumption is the mother of all f ups.

KFC Holdings Japan which owns Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan, Ltd is controlled by Mistsubishi and is a publicly traded corp on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. It was initally a JV between Mitsubishi and the US KFC entity but the latter’s shares were bought back by the former in 2007:

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20.../#.Uc8qVvnVDK0

From what I have gathered, KFC Holdings appears to have a master franchise agreement directly with Yum! for the Japan territory and not with its US subsidiary KFC corporation. So it’s a distinct legal entity altogether under Japanese control and the promotion would have been done under an agreement between Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan, Ltd and SE which explains why it was limited to Japan only.

An entirely separate agreement would need to be negotiated for North America (and even then Canada might left out in the cold), and EU would be a nightmare.