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BlazBlue Not Available To PAL-Region Xbox 360s

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July 4, 2009 at 7:08 am
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Apparently new fighting game BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger won’t be arriving on European and Australian shores anytime soon for Xbox 360 owners in said region. As ‘reported’ on the Xbox360Achievement Forums, it seems that only NTSC Xbox 360 owners will get their hands on the critically acclaimed fighter published by Aksys Games. There’s really nothing left to be said; check out what good ol’ customer support had to say to a European-based consumer who pre-ordered BlazBlue:

Hi,

Please disregard that last email. There was a problem in our chain of
command and it seems BlazBlue for the Xbox 360 will only be playable on US
and Asia consoles.

PS3 of course is still region free.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Aksys Games Support

Good thing I purchased a PlayStation 3 two weeks ago, now I won’t have to partake in any fanboy discussions regarding exclusive games on either consoles or Microsoft’s inability to provide for region free games on a standardised basis. Though I doubt many will be losing sleep over it unless they’re dedicated fans of fighting games; it seems that European and Australian Xbox 360 gamers have been shorthanded lately also with Ghostbusters not being available to them until later in the year.  Unfortunately, it’s tough luck to those living in Australia and Europe, hopefully they didn’t really care for the game in the first place.

Written By Jeff Effendi

A games journalist writing for various editorials such as AppGamer and MS Xbox-World, Jeff also contributes to big-time magazine 'Australian 360'. Being the first Asian-Australian to join The Koalition, he's unfortunately subject to a wealth of jokes in the office, just ask Edward.

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  • fucked
    That's it. I'm going to sell my xbox360 and buy a PS3. I really liked xbox360 but I am not going to tolerate this shit from Microsoft anymore.. There must be over 10 good japanese xbox360 games by now that are not released in Europe at all.
  • Pissed of ozzie
    What a joke. Sure they want us to keep the 2d fighting alive, but then they go and make the disc NON region free. What a total blow out. Dont Arks have any clue as to what there doing in the retail market.

    ~now im off to consider importing a US>360, but can they play PAL (Australian Discs?) Or the faggots could at least make it DLC on live.
    though not everyone has or wants that live crap.

    (throws jar of Vegemite at pc screen!)
  • LH
    I don't understand why they do crap like this, especially since there isn't locking on the PS3. Just idiotic, I guess they don't actually want to sell their games...
  • kickinhead
    Wow, preordered the game weeks ago and now I've got it and it doesn't work. I was really looking forward to playing the game and spend a lot of money importing it and now im screwed.

    i'm not gonna flame or anything, but you could've also come to my house in switzerland and kick me in the face and steel ~120 dollars from me... -.-°
  • Krypt
    Where you importing from Dro?
  • dunno yet prob renchi.com. if anyone knows a better place hit me up
  • looks like im going to have to import the ps3 version
  • RuthlessKid
    Fuck Microsoft On The Region Lock Bullshit I Was Hoping To Get The Game Until I Found Out It Was Not Coming In England I Was Hoping It Would Be Region Free Tho Like Ghost Busters
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