• FruitLips@lemmy.ml
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    20 hours ago

    Idle speculation: maybe it has to do w/ the nightmare of their copy write/distribution laws. For instance Sony (yuck) has contracted Japanese VAs for dialogue in certain games(helldivers 2) but won’t allow anyone outside Japan to even purchase the option.

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      6 hours ago

      Those are entirely different thing.

      It’s just classic case of Sony doesn’t want to pay additional license of Japanese voice for non-JP release.

      Whenever Japanese VA is available, the option are presents on every single game release on Steam except of Western big budget AA or AAA-developed games.