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Shizuka said:
Can the LRG set fit a NA collection? They're not rated by the ESRB and it's region-free.
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FWIW, I just checked a few of my PS4 games (didn't check Vita yet) and they all have "ALL" listed as their region, even games like Gravity Rush Remastered. As for ESRB ratings, I always assumed they had ratings but because they weren't being sold at retail LRG wasn't bound to have the rating on the box.
 
NDPsycho said:
You're not alone in your thinking. LRG is trying to meet a lot of different expectations, but I appreciate that they seem to focus on games that have never seen a physical release. I'm pretty sure that has been stated as one of their goals, to see digitally available only games get a release. So, while I also agree that it's fine if something like Limbo gets a physical release on ps4/vita, I wouldn't want it to be at the expense of a game that never has seen a physical release. Regardless of how many games they have in the pipe, it's not an unlimited pipe. Limbo could currently live on after online servers shut down, many other games would not.
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You explained it better than me :)

Pellegri Testament said:
Having an actual Western release would probably get something like Cyber Sleuth more attention, but I don't think price would change at all for people who are on the fence because it costs too much to import. It's still a $40 release digitally so I would assume it would be $50 coming from you guys and then it's $5 shipped to the US and however much to other countries. Where as it's a $50 import game with $5 shipped to the US and however much to others. At this point the only people I see who haven't bought it physically on Vita, are those who are waiting for the price to drop, not those who want a Western release of it at the same price as the import price.
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Cyber Sleuth may not be the best example. Some R3 games are more rare and expensive. I'm thinking Oreshika for example or FF X-2 HD (more than 80$ both easily). But even if they are expensive, they're not impossible to find.

I can't think of other good examples of rare Asia English releases (can someone ?)
 
LimitedRunGames said:
There's also a lot of people who either don't know those releases exist or aren't interested in keeping up with an R3 extended collection (seems like it can get expensive and hard to keep track of). We'd definitely jump on the opportunity to do releases of Digimon Cyber Sleuth or Gundam Breaker 3, for example. I think there is a huge market for those games that either don't know about or don't want to pay the premium for the Asia releases.
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While it's true that a lot of people don't know of the R3 releases, I'd guess that a good part of your particular customer base does :)

Then again, I'd also guess that a good part would also buy it from you anyway. I know I would. I did it for SAO Lost Song when it released here after I already had the R3 version.
 
Shizuka said:
Can the LRG set fit a NA collection? They're not rated by the ESRB and it's region-free.
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I think they fit. I think they can fit into any regions collection, but especially a NA one since it's a NA company and they are sold and shipped from NA. ESRB is only required for a retail release, not a NA release.
 
Semoreh said:
Cyber Sleuth may not be the best example. Some R3 games are more rare and expensive. I'm thinking Oreshika for example or FF X-2 HD (more than 80$ both easily). But even if they are expensive, they're not impossible to find.

I can't think of other good examples of rare Asia English releases (can someone ?)
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Even those releases we know that some import sites still get physical English prints of them on a fairly regular basis and charge a little above retail. It's just that they only get so many copies of them and a good amount of them usually end up on Ebay and are scalped for double or more than what they payed.

I think it may be something to look into at some point if there's actual demand and not just people thinking they'd get a better deal from LRG than what they would from importing (which with the Digimon/Gundam examples, they wouldn't). At the same time I would rather they focus on games that never saw physical English prints in the first place, like Atelier or indies.
 
Shizuka said:
Can the LRG set fit a NA collection? They're not rated by the ESRB and it's region-free.
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They're definitely considered NA releases complete with their own SCEA product codes (or whatever you call them).
LRG have stated they're part of the official library.
 
LimitedRunGames said:
There's also a lot of people who either don't know those releases exist or aren't interested in keeping up with an R3 extended collection (seems like it can get expensive and hard to keep track of). We'd definitely jump on the opportunity to do releases of Digimon Cyber Sleuth or Gundam Breaker 3, for example. I think there is a huge market for those games that either don't know about or don't want to pay the premium for the Asia releases.
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I would buy Cyber Sleuth from you guys since I don't have that on Vita but I'd be disappointed if you guys did Oreshika because I imported that from HeavyArm a couple months ago.

EDIT: I personally wouldn't bother with titles that have a R3 release.
 
Pellegri Testament said:
Even those releases we know that some import sites still get physical English prints of them on a fairly regular basis and charge a little above retail. It's just that they only get so many copies of them and a good amount of them usually end up on Ebay and are scalped for double or more than what they payed.
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Really they see some reprints ? I didn't know that. That would explain the drop in Oreshika's price, which was worth more than 110$ until recently. I'd better keep an eye on these import sites, then !
(do you think about one in particular ?)

I think it may be something to look into at some point if there's actual demand and not just people thinking they'd get a better deal from LRG than what they would from importing (which with the Digimon/Gundam examples, they wouldn't). At the same time I would rather they focus on games that never saw physical English prints in the first place, like Atelier.
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Agreed. If the demand is driven from the fact that an LRG release would be a "better deal", I'm not sure it's a good enough reason to publish it, except maybe in the case of a super rare game but I can't think of any...
 
Semoreh said:
Really they see some reprints ? I didn't know that. That would explain the drop in Oreshika's price, which was worth more than 110$ until recently. I'd better keep an eye on these import sites, then !
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HeavyArm at least has gotten multiple shipments (usually of 50ish copies of each) of Oreshika/Soul Sacrifice Delta/FFX-2 in the last few months, which has contributed to the price decrease on all those games on Ebay. There's also a few people from Singapore who have been going on Ebay and selling a dozen or so copies of those games at a time (usually at a markup, but still under the price of high end scalpers), which has also led to the price decreasing.
 
Pellegri Testament said:
HeavyArm at least has gotten multiple shipments (usually of 50ish copies of each) of Oreshika/Soul Sacrifice Delta/FFX-2 in the last few months, which has contributed to the price decrease on all those games on Ebay. There's also a few people from Singapore who have been going on Ebay and selling a dozen or so copies of those games at a time (usually at a markup, but still under the price of high end scalpers), which has also led to the price decreasing.
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Good to know, thanks !
By the way I've just found a neat little website keeping track of all these R3 games : http://www.vitasia.xyz/
(last update in march, but still pretty useful)
 
LimitedRunGames said:
There's also a lot of people who either don't know those releases exist or aren't interested in keeping up with an R3 extended collection (seems like it can get expensive and hard to keep track of). We'd definitely jump on the opportunity to do releases of Digimon Cyber Sleuth or Gundam Breaker 3, for example. I think there is a huge market for those games that either don't know about or don't want to pay the premium for the Asia releases.
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especially when some of those games have DLC which is region specific.
 
LimitedRunGames said:
There's also a lot of people who either don't know those releases exist or aren't interested in keeping up with an R3 extended collection (seems like it can get expensive and hard to keep track of). We'd definitely jump on the opportunity to do releases of Digimon Cyber Sleuth or Gundam Breaker 3, for example. I think there is a huge market for those games that either don't know about or don't want to pay the premium for the Asia releases.
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I'm definitely in the camp that only collects games from the North American region. I'm aware imports are an option, but I just like having them all from the same region. Even though LRG titles aren't rated and region 'coded' or anything, I still consider them more a game from NA. It's a price thing, along with wanting everything just to have the same look etc.

So yeah, people like me do exist! Would be nice to see some titles that are Asian-only physical or whatever be considered in the future.
 
My package got delivered! Now the wait for the work day to end commences...


And what the hell... I'm missing two games from the package.

I got two sound tracks and one vita copy. Missing both of the bundled games....
 
Shizuka said:
I'd rather not have games that were already available in Asia/Japan with a physical english run, but that's something LRG can't really control either.
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I think the same though, I already have digimon for vita and ps4 in english.I won't be interested in that game getting again a release although I buy all lrg games.
 
NDPsycho said:
My package got delivered! Now the wait for the work day to end commences...


And what the hell... I'm missing two games from the package.

I got two sound tracks and one vita copy. Missing both of the bundled games....
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I got the two games but only the soundtrack for Breach & Clear: Deadline. Hope your issue is resolved soon!
 
My Söldner X2 package arrived today. But apparently the distribution center folks can't tell the difference between Vita cases and PS2 cases. I ordered 2 Vita cases and received 2 PS4 cases.
 
zenosparadox said:
I got the two games but only the soundtrack for Breach & Clear: Deadline. Hope your issue is resolved soon!
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Thanks, it's my first real problem and I've ordered every time something has went up so far. I don't doubt I'll get a response and I don't want to complain too much given that some people weren't even able to order. Just seems like the fulfillment center is making a ton of mistakes this time around. It's almost like they treated me like one of the first bundle orders sent out and assumed I had already gotten the games and were missing the soundtracks or something, since my problem seems the opposite of what people were experiencing last week. I knew when I got the package from the mailbox there was a problem, no way it was big enough for all the items. Regardless, it is a bummer.
 
Received a message today saying my Soldner 2 has finally been shipped. Although I'm not entirely peaceful, judging by the above messages. The fulfillment center is apparently a big mess :x

PS : thanks for the list dallow_BG, I will definitely use it :)
 
I got my email for shipping, but it says only B&C:D was shipped even though the order number should include Soldiner... hoping for the best
 
Is Rainbow Moon going to be 1 or 2 per customer?

A guy I work with suggested we order our copies together to save on shipping costs, but we won't be able to do that if it's only 1 copy, so thought I'd check now. Doesn't say anything on the website.
 
Kresnik258 said:
Is Rainbow Moon going to be 1 or 2 per customer?

A guy I work with suggested we order our copies together to save on shipping costs, but we won't be able to do that if it's only 1 copy, so thought I'd check now. Doesn't say anything on the website.
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Limit of 1 to prevent another Soldner situation
 
Would love to see the upcoming Rainbow Skies released physically through LRG. Have a bundle that maybe comes with soundtrack and map (with instruction manual). I would try to snap that up in a heartbeat.
 
dallow_bg said:
I'm really curious too now.
I think they like to share their sales numbers so we might find out when its over.
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If the number is too low, which I think will be, I don't think they'll share.

Edit: In hindsight, open orders may produce even more rare prints compared to limited prints, when they don't have a lot of demand and end up being underproduced.
 
Just for reference, we're strongly considering dumping our fulfillment center. They really, really, dropped the ball on this run. Like, we can't even believe how poorly they did here. Every day we think we've heard the last of the problems and then a new batch crop up. It's unbelievable.

If that happens, we may pull things back in house - that may ultimately mean slower shipping, but with a significantly greater amount of care. This is just ridiculous.
 
LimitedRunGames said:
Just for reference, we're strongly considering dumping our fulfillment center. They really, really, dropped the ball on this run. Like, we can't even believe how poorly they did here. Every day we think we've heard the last of the problems and then a new batch crop up. It's unbelievable.

If that happens, we may pull things back in house - that may ultimately mean slower shipping, but with a significantly greater amount of care. This is just ridiculous.
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I'm very sorry to hear that, it's a shame that they started kinda decent, but quickly became a nuisance for you guys.
 
LimitedRunGames said:
Just for reference, we're strongly considering dumping our fulfillment center. They really, really, dropped the ball on this run. Like, we can't even believe how poorly they did here. Every day we think we've heard the last of the problems and then a new batch crop up. It's unbelievable.

If that happens, we may pull things back in house - that may ultimately mean slower shipping, but with a significantly greater amount of care. This is just ridiculous.
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I approve.
 
LimitedRunGames said:
Just for reference, we're strongly considering dumping our fulfillment center. They really, really, dropped the ball on this run. Like, we can't even believe how poorly they did here. Every day we think we've heard the last of the problems and then a new batch crop up. It's unbelievable.

If that happens, we may pull things back in house - that may ultimately mean slower shipping, but with a significantly greater amount of care. This is just ridiculous.
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I'm split on this, as the delivery to Europe with DDP is really nice and convenient now, but the errors do seem a bit much. Don't even understand how all of this can happen honestly. It gets worse every time.

I just hope you'll have some kind of solution for us in the old world as well
 
Right.....would this mean the end of prepaid customs fees? That would be massively unfortunate. If possible, try to set them straight instead. :)
 
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