DQuick wrote:I just hope that this crap (Australia getting the cold shoulder that is) doesn't happen again with Akai Katana for PAL.
Stop banging your head against the wall and just place an order online, it'll cost you half as much and most likely reach you before the local release anyway (if there is one). A local release will be a European release with an Aussie classification sticker on the front cover anyway. If there is a local release you can put your European copy in a case with the classification sticker and pretend. There is little point blaming distributors for not bringing a title with limited appeal to a very small market, especially when the distributors are aware that the few people really interested in these titles won't have any real issues getting a copy. Hell there are UK sellers deliberately targetting the Australian market, selling in Australian dollars.
How about we thank rising star for releasing a game that will work on PAL machines at a reasonable price, rather than needlessly complaining.
If anyone in Australia has issues ordering this kind of thing online I'm happy to help.
It's hardly needlessly complaining if the employees that browse these threads actually listen and put it straight whether they're going to miss us again or not. As it is, I emailed them directly and the lack of response from asking this previously here and on their social media accounts (Facebook) has me concerned they're going to do exactly that. I speak only for myself as a troubled member who really doesn't like getting fucked over 5 days before the official release date, but that fuzzy friendlyness of thanking a company for a service which is half-assed like you mention at the end of your post wears off real quick with me. You might thank bus drivers for consistently driving the routes behind the proper schedule for example, but I don't.
As for preordering online, I did that with Deathsmiles, it took something like 8 weeks and it actually came out here locally before it arrived, for what was in the end a marginally cheaper price on the wallet and a hugely cheaper price on the me-getting-grey-hairs early factor. Then I got DDP:R over Zavvi.net and their formatting for the address bar seriously worried me that they'd screw up where to even send the game. Fuck. That. Shit.
An Aussie PAL gamer shouldn't have to jump a dozen shonky hoops with flames on them for a PAL game because a company
can't stay consistent in where and when they publish their games. Rising Star and their associates (GAME, JB Hifi, Gamestop etc) know full well they've got an audience here in Australia, after all they sold KOFXIII here locally and the only 'issue' with that release was that it came out in stores before the release date (which isn't really an issue) - and beat-em-ups aren't exactly a large market with large appeal either. I am so sorry if it's too much to ask for something that the rest of the world (including Europe who have been previously starved and US both now) gets guaranteed.
