Comments on: SCEE Holding Back Ultimate Alliance DLC?

By: hazelam

hazelam — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:47:18 +0000

i’m going to be asking about this on the eu blog every day until i get an answer, don’t expect one any time soon so this looks to be a long term project.

By: skibadee

skibadee — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:47:27 +0000

yeah we hope

By: Sympozium Necropolis

Sympozium Necropolis — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:11:44 +0000

Its why I believe SCEE should be spilt into English while the rest is Europe.
It would help for the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand

By: jacklum

jacklum — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:11:05 +0000

Japan gets loads of 360 games later than the West. Lots of DS/Wii titles come out in Japan before anywhere else etc…

By: hazelam

hazelam — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:40:59 +0000

we need that worldwide certification system sony promised some time last year.
maybe they wouldn’t allow games to get lost in the system then.

By: cc_star

cc_star — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:57:44 +0000

Doesn’t really matter who’s fault it is in individual cases

It’s Sony’s convoluted system that’s ultimately responsible, competing systems which trade in multiple regions rarely if ever suffer.

By: cc_star

cc_star — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:55:24 +0000

yeah, shame the update is gonna take so long and they can’t take a leaf out of IW’s book

SingStar is broke, and broke really badly, fair enough they’ve owned up to it, but critical breaks like that need people to be working the odd night shift.

By: cc_star

cc_star — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:53:57 +0000

Outrun Arcade is a 360 exclusive in the US

There is quite a bit of stuff that SCEE gets first, but more often the overwhelming tide is in favour of other regions, and its usually the big stuff. And don’t mention the PSOne Classics.

By: jacklum

jacklum — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:03:51 +0000

In the past year, there have been 15 PSN games that were released on the UK PSN store before they arrived on the US one, with delays of several months in some cases and stuff like Outrun Online Arcade, which looks like it will never be released in the US. The EU store also got the Mirror’s Edge DLC completely free (still $10 in the US) and several demos before the US did (DiRT 2, PES 2010, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 etc…). People who moan that Europe always gets shafted only focus on the stuff they feel they’re missing out on, while ignoring all evidence to the contrary.

By: hazelam

hazelam — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:30:38 +0000

i’ve been saying for what feels like an age that too many times it’s only when the content gets to an scee region that it’s delayed.
they’ve been saying that the devs haven’t given them the content time after time, even before mike and the blog, now we’re discovering that’s not the case in at least case.
i mean it always seemed suspicious to me that so many devs send their eu content to scee late when other formats got the content on time.
i susprised more devs haven’t complained about this because quite frankly i can see a few that have lost money because of scee and their delays.
this problem needs to be brought out into the open.

By: commuterzombie

commuterzombie — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:26:47 +0000

It’s a shame, more developers and publishers need to look at the recent Singstar post on the EU blog covering recent issues after an update. That’s a textbook example of how to handle PR in this sort of situation. Silence doesn’t impress anyone.

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By: bunimomike

bunimomike — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:40:36 +0000

If developers were completely transparent it would show how SCEE end up shafting the EU PSN consumers and not a drop of KY to make things easier on us. This would then, probably, lead to a mass shift across to other regional stores (US, Japan, etc) which surely wouldn’t be good for SCEE.

I guess drip-feeding bad news is the only way until things one day catch-up.

All of the above is irrespective of regional variations and the unique situation that being a part of the EU store presents us with. It’s ultimately down to how shat-upon the consumer feels.

By: BadBoyBoogie

BadBoyBoogie — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:11:42 +0000

Whatever the reasons are, it’s frustrating for the consumer, so someone high up needs to sort it out.

By: hazelam

hazelam — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:41:18 +0000

i don’t think mike is to blame here, i think there’s stuff going on behind the scene that either he can’t tell us about or he doesn’t know about.
but it begs the question, if scee have received this content and not published it, what other content are they sitting on?
do they have a fully localised copy of cash guns chaos sitting on a hard drive somewhere?

By: BiosNova

BiosNova — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:09:43 +0000

It’s kind of well known that SCEE hold back items on the store, then try to cover it up by pulling out excuses, it’s happened before where a developer said SCEE had the DLC when SCEE said they didn’t. I don’t know why they do it TBH it’s just making people annoyed.