Japanese publishers’ habit of region locking games in Japan may finally be changing
automaton-media.com
For years, Japanese game publishers have been region locking Steam releases of certain from Japanese users. This may be changing.
  • breadsmasher@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 month ago

    just to clarify for my smoothbrain, are japanese publishers locking the japanese market out of their games?

    • DerisionConsulting
      111·
      1 month ago

      Second sentence of the article.

      Japanese game publishers making Steam releases unavailable for their countrymen has been a thing for years, but Steam’s recent popularity boom in Japan may be nudging things in the right direction.