Will FFXIV be region locked on PS3?

[Arkine]

PS3 is region free, you can play game from any region in any language on any PS3.


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I don't even get why games and DVDs are region locked.

Region free DVD players are legally sold, they're cheap and easy to obtain and you can always mod chip a console to play all regions.

They should drop this system.

[Andrien]

Region locking can happen with firmware updates.

publishers could choose to region lock games but none did so during the first six years of the PS3 life and still going.

except for Atlus, Persona 4 Arena

[Felis]

"Persona 4: Arena" from Altus come out with a region-lock. But the region-lock is from Altus, not from Sony.
http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/...nded-by-atlus/

[Antipika]

PS3 is region free, you can play game from any region in any language on any PS3.


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I don't even get why games and DVDs are region locked.

Region free DVD players are legally sold, they're cheap and easy to obtain and you can always mod chip a console to play all regions.

They should drop this system.

DVD were region locked in the first place to avoid people importing movies while they were not even released yet in other regions and/or sold at a higher price elsewhere. (Obviously a DVD sold in China would cost less than one sold in the US, while the quality would be exactly the same). And last reason was copyrights. Some movies aren't distributed by the same company depending on the region, so it's easier to control if there is region restriction in place.

As for games, this is the same. Control price, release date and distribution.

The editor still have the choice to make a release region free. X360 is region locked, yet some games are Region Free.

It's all about money anyway. While no region lock exists for music CDs, in Japan, some albums are released in two different versions, the Japanese version and the "overseas" version. The second one is typically made for the Asian market outside Japan (South Korea / China / HK etc.) and it is forbidden to sell it in Japan (manufactured outside Japan also). The packaging sometime slightly differ, the music is the same.

And the JP version is made for the domestic market (and usually 20% to 40% more expensive since it is manufactured in Japan). It sometimes include special coupon to register for some events or redeem something only available to people living in Japan.

[Felis]

DVD were region locked in the first place to avoid people importing movies while they were not even released yet in other regions and/or sold at a higher price elsewhere.

I find the region-lock on DVD needless. First you can make easy a DVD player region-free and second a DVD drive can change the region 5 times. Buy 2 and you have one for NA dvd and one for EU dvd.
Or use your home dvd player for dvd in your region and the dvd drive in the pc for import dvd.

[Jennestia]

I find the region-lock on DVD needless. First you can make easy a DVD player region-free and second a DVD drive can change the region 5 times. Buy 2 and you have one for NA dvd and one for EU dvd.
Or use your home dvd player for dvd in your region and the dvd drive in the pc for import dvd.

You're viewing it as a consumer though -- companies don't use regions for no reason, there's specific reasons it's used and it varies by media and regulations. For example there's a lot of games localized to Japan that wouldn't fly in NA/EU because of respective laws and policies therefore it's locked to Japanese region even if you import it.

[Malakhim]

Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure region-locking was part of the plan to make sure China was flyin' solo.

[Helius]

PS3 games aren't region locked (unlike the Wii and XBox 360)

[Sav]

I sincerely hope it won't be region-locked, seeing as my PS3 is JP. The price of games in Japan is crazy.

[Zenaku]

PC version of FFXIV is region luck when it come to payments like if you have a NA account you need to pay with NA bank account not sure about IP tho.