Final fantasy III and Castlevania POR not for europe?!?!?!!

[Jazm1]

I have been waiting for Final fantasy III and Castlevania Portrait of Ruin a long time now just to find on IGN that ff3 dont have a realese date in europe not even a TBA, and then i checked in on castlevania POR and it says "Europe: Unreleased".

Are they going to ditch those titles for the european market???
The Castlevania and final fantasy series are the reson along side zelda, that i bought the DS lite!

I just got MGS3: subsistance a year after it was realesed in the US, and now the wait for the Ps3.
I like the rest of Europe have had buildt upp a solid patiance over the years, but now i just about have had enough of this shite.

I think much of the blame can be put on the fact that France, Spain, Germany and Italy can't seem to be intellectualy capable enough to grasp even the simplest and most basic form of english, such as displayed in the Castlevania series.

Why can't they realese the American version in PAL to the english speaking part of Europe such as the UK and Scandinavia, and let the ignorant backwards of the non english compliant countries pay for their own ineptness.

This "Europe gets it a year after every one else if at all MUHAHAHA!!" crap has got to end NOW!!

[Deathlike2]

It has more to do with laws and localization costs (anything not Japanese or English is... well.. go figure).

[Joe Camacho]

I like the rest of Europe have had buildt upp a solid patiance over the years, but now i just about have had enough of this shite.

I thought that part of the problem was that Europe *isn't* patient. And imports.

[badinsults]

I guess you might have to spend a bit of money and import them. The DS is region free.

[Agozer]

In the end, as much as you, myself, or any other european complains about Europe getting constantly shafted, thing won't change or they change very slowly.

One of the solutions would be for companies to release a game on time in countries that are used to seeing an english only release with not particular laws that might have to be taken into account when releasing a game in certain countries. Companies could then release are more "localized" game in "special" countries later, if they choose to.

Fair? Not by a long shot. Then again, it isn't really fair that Europe gets shafted time and time again either.

[Tallgeese]

The fact is, not every company has significant operations in Europe. Take Atlus for example. And it DOES cost money to actually execute a release of the games in each region.

Let's stop this 'it's not fair' bullshit. Fairness has nothing to do with it. Japan and North America are currently the biggest markets with the maximum amount of ease to disseminate the product widely due to a roughly uniform set of laws (at least pertaining to video games) and one main language. It's that simple. If you want this to change, then you figure out a way to merge Europe into one country under basically one language.

[neoblaze]

fuck america

[Joe Camacho]

AMERICA FUCK YEAH!

[Deathlike2]

Importing does seem more attractive than looking for a localization...

Factor in that the possibility that an English version for anywhere in Europe might not sell as well... it may create an unintended side effect of alienating the consumer base in Europe. (A fuck the non-English speakers sentiment is NEVER a good thing for a company.)

On the other hand, we have Mother 3 not having an English localization. However, this will very likely backfire in the end (and a huge loss of $$$).

To say the least, if there is no region lockouts in the games (if you can workaround them), take advantage of this fact. The fact that the SNES had effectively a differently clocked system for the PAL region is a terrible thing (why 50Hz/FPS, we may never really like/know it). Banging your head on the wall about this is retarded.

[Joe Camacho]

ImOn the other hand, we have Mother 3 not having an English localization. However, this will very likely backfire in the end (and a huge loss of $$$).

Who is can/might/will lose huge amount of money?

[Deathlike2]

ImOn the other hand, we have Mother 3 not having an English localization. However, this will very likely backfire in the end (and a huge loss of $$$).

Who is can/might/will lose huge amount of money?

The developer. However, it is their choice in the end.

It could be worse... if the localization outright sucks, it can piss off people too. So, QA is still very significant.

[Joe Camacho]

ImOn the other hand, we have Mother 3 not having an English localization. However, this will very likely backfire in the end (and a huge loss of $$$).

Who is can/might/will lose huge amount of money?

The developer. However, it is their choice in the end.

It could be worse... if the localization outright sucks, it can piss off people too. So, QA is still very significant.

Well.. If they *don't* do the localization, they won't lose any money, won't they?

Not getting profits =/= losing money.

[Deathlike2]

ImOn the other hand, we have Mother 3 not having an English localization. However, this will very likely backfire in the end (and a huge loss of $$$).

Who is can/might/will lose huge amount of money?

The developer. However, it is their choice in the end.

It could be worse... if the localization outright sucks, it can piss off people too. So, QA is still very significant.

Well.. If they *don't* do the localization, they won't lose any money, won't they?

Not getting profits =/= losing money.

Mmm.. I should've emphasized loss of a great potentional profit gain. You know what I mean anyways. Obviously they won't lose money.

[Jazm1]

The DS is region free?!, cool i didn't know that thanks badinsults!

Well i checked play-asia and they have both games listed for realese on the 15th and 16th of november, both games are also listed as region free!
Castlevania seems to be the JAP version so i might want to wait untill the US version arrives, but then again the castlevania games aren't exactually known for their hefty dialog.

Is play-asia US based? If so it is going to cost me 600kr and thats about 94 dollars to get it in country and to my local post office.
If its from the UK its usualy around 250kr and that translates to 39 Dollars.
As you can see ordering from the US is costy here in Norway, ordering from the UK is cheeper when it comes to shipping but then again the British Pound is very strong.

Sigh, i wish that liksang was still around, but i NEED these games so i guess i just have to take the piss either way.

When it comes to PC games i have noticed that here in Norway (and most likely the rest of the Nordic countries) we get the UK version of the game with UK content rateings and all. While other European countries get their own version, when we have to patch upp we have to use the UK patch while countries like France, Spain, Italy and Germany have to get a seperate patch.

Why cant we have something like this in the console gaming market? what makes it so diffrent aside from hardware region locks?

Any ways it looks like i HAVE to import these games so when companies complain about a import problem they have nobody but them self to blaim for nurturing the import industry and culture.

Fuckers!!!

[Clements]

If Final Fantasy III is not released in the UK, then I'm importing.

Edit: Wow, I just ordered it from Play-Asia for £22.46, which for me is pretty much pocket change, and a saving of about £12 over what a decent DS title costs here. I'll have it within 12 days.