• @[email protected]
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    365 months ago

    Bottom line: Konami is a weird company making odd calls and has been for a long time. Someone in charge likely decided 11 years ago that MGRR should not be released on PC in Japan and that’s all there is to it.

    • @ampersandrew
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      115 months ago

      This has happened before, for games from other publishers, as per the article. I don’t remember all of the reasons for it, but if I’m not mistaken, this is why Shogun: Total War 2 has a blood DLC for a few dollars, so that they can make everything but the DLC available in Japan.

      • @Etterra
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        45 months ago

        That’s Australia. They have weird anti-violence laws, and God-fucking-forbid anyone learn that blood exists. I think their stupid drug portrayal laws are why the first Fallout had to call them “chems” instead. It’s all pretty stupid moral crusade bullshit.

        • @ampersandrew
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          15 months ago

          I suspect Australia is responsible for Streets of Rogue changing “cocaine” into “sugar” as well, but I know Japan doesn’t allow things like beheadings in their games, which I thought was part of that DLC.

    • @pyre
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      65 months ago

      FucKonami

    • RubberDuck
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      215 months ago

      Piracy is a service issue.

    • @ABCDE
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      65 months ago

      So… Why in Vietnam too? I had to get the MGS trilogy on Switch instead.