I am from Singapore and I have an EU account

[Sunako_Nakahara]

you guys need to stop thinking that just because something can be sold as a digital goods item it doesn't still have limitations on where it can be sold and for what price.
Companies pay a good amount to be the only retailer to service a area or country
some countries just don't get sales at all.Korea doesn't have FFXIV at all you cant even access the server no matter what you do because of the cinderella law that stops minors from playing from playing from midnight to 5am adults can but because SE did not include a korean SS verification process to lock minors accounts during those hours they blocked it for the whole country. Some of the south east asian restrictions are due to the fight against RMT. But all i see is people just blaming SE they have worked hard to make the game available to as many people around the world on pre-order as possible. If you are one of those outliers you might have to wait till its in a local shop instead of having it as a download or pre-order.

[SecretCrowds]

you guys need to stop thinking that just because something can be sold as a digital goods item it doesn't still have limitations on where it can be sold and for what price.
Companies pay a good amount to be the only retailer to service a area or country
some countries just don't get sales at all.Korea doesn't have FFXIV at all you cant even access the server no matter what you do because of the cinderella law that stops minors from playing from playing from midnight to 5am adults can but because SE did not include a korean SS verification process to lock minors accounts during those hours they blocked it for the whole country. Some of the south east asian restrictions are due to the fight against RMT. But all i see is people just blaming SE they have worked hard to make the game available to as many people around the world on pre-order as possible. If you are one of those outliers you might have to wait till its in a local shop instead of having it as a download or pre-order.

That's easy for you to say when you aren't affected by it at all. Try having no access to the game at all and depend only on parallel import. Try having your country not listed at all in account creation. Then it's fair for you to say "be patient".

[Sunako_Nakahara]

When FFXI launched in Japan i got the game a month or 2 after i had it mailed across had sent money to a friend to pay at 7-11 for my account so i have delt with these things before dont give me the excuse its easy for you to say. There this i have to wait for from other parts of the world. its not all about instant gratification.

[SecretCrowds]

When FFXI launched in Japan i got the game a month or 2 after i had it mailed across had sent money to a friend to pay at 7-11 for my account so i have delt with these things before dont give me the excuse its easy for you to say. There this i have to wait for from other parts of the world. its not all about instant gratification.

Yeah. Because all of us have friends living in other countries. What's wrong with trying to fight for proper access instead of depending on tricks and indirect methods?

[Sunako_Nakahara]

whats wrong with waiting like the SE rep said you should do buy getting it in a local retailer?

[SecretCrowds]

whats wrong with waiting like the SE rep said you should do buy getting it in a local retailer?

Because it's not easy to find a local retailer to import it? This "local retailer" is not the same as Gamespot or what shop that gets copies from SE directly. These "local retailers" need their own contacts in US or EU to buy the game, send by mail and pay for mail and import tax. It's not easy to find one.

And this is the difference. When you meet a problem, you are content with band-aid solutions. What others want is to get to the root of the problem.

[Sunako_Nakahara]

once physical copies are out call the local retailer ask them to open said copy and read the key to you after you have paid for it via internet.
they will be happy to do so as long as they are getting paid. and avoid your import tax. Once again you just have to wait.

[SarcasmMisser]

you guys need to stop thinking that just because something can be sold as a digital goods item it doesn't still have limitations on where it can be sold and for what price.

Your paragraphs are difficult to parse, you might want to work on that but not as much as your critical thinking skills because you seriously took the word of someone employed in the profession of PR uncritically.

Geo-blocking is a well known practice. This is clearly geo-blocking except, unless someone from an actual PAL region can confirm they can't buy from the NA store, they hilariously messed it up by making it so you are only prevented from buying from the more expensive regional store. There are no serious barriers because digital distribution at any store that has joined the 21st century services Singapore just fine, which isn't Korea and I'm not sure why you are talking about some country no one has mentioned thus far but if that's the limit on your knowledge on gaming in this incredibly diverse part of the world that's ok. SE on the other hand has an organization structure that defines regions in a way that made sense when I bought sim city for the SNES (and even then it was debatable), one hand clearly doesn't know what the other is doing, and they struggle with "logistical issues" that steam seamlessly doesn't have.

If you learned basic critical thinking something about the whole situation should feel amiss. Or maybe the problem is that this forum has enough white knights to start a crusade.

[SecretCrowds]

once physical copies are out call the local retailer ask them to open said copy and read the key to you after you have paid for it via internet.
they will be happy to do so as long as they are getting paid. and avoid your import tax. Once again you just have to wait.

Again you and your band-aid fixes. People want a proper solution because it helps a lot. It would definitely help in getting more players who refuse to join currently because there is neither a way to buy the game nor register an account properly. It also helps with soothing worries. Look at it this way. They placed an IP block on EU stores which didn't exist before. There is much more they can still do to those without proper access which will cause even more problems.

I don't know why you want to bring in Korea, which has problems with all MMOs out there. No other MMO out there excludes the SEA market. That includes SWTOR, WoW, Rift, Wildstar, GW2 and many more. All of them give access to SEA players unconditionally. They just have to put up with ping and currency. See why people are unhappy about it?

Not to mention your comment about blocking SEA for RMT. Last I heard, RMT was from China. And a fat load of good blocking the entire SEA region was in solving the RMT problem. Must be why I don't see any complaint threads about RMT on the forum. The only thing blocking SEA succeeded in was preventing legitimate players from playing properly.

[SarcasmMisser]

Also hahaha "no I know what regional geo-blocking is like I once imported a game from japan, 10 years ago when the world of e-commerce was radically different".

Argh getting things from Japan in California is so hard, truly the backwater of video game distribution.