texhnolyze said:



I mean, publishers usually apply regional blocking, not per country basis.



Yeah, this is what you get when you click on PES 2018 store page.







The game is simply not for sale in China, Malaysia, and India. The weird thing is that it's available in other Southeast Asian countries.I mean, publishers usually apply regional blocking, not per country basis.Yeah, this is what you get when you click on PES 2018 store page.The game is simply not for sale in China, Malaysia, and India. Click to expand...

FlutterPuffs said: Sorry, I thought it meant that the game is available at a cheaper price in Malaysia, but you can't gift it to anyone who isn't Malaysian Click to expand...

Yep I kept checking steamdb.info hoping for it to be on sale for at least a month, gave up waiting last week and just got a CD key. Not buying the PS4 version when the PC version is equal to the PS4 version this year thats for sure.I might be wrong, but football, particularly premier league is HUGE in Malaysia. It makes the back page 5 days out of 7 in the newspapers and its not even local. No other sport is even in the same realm. In Australia where I'm from, there's no way the prem makes the back page, because Aussie sport always takes precedence.Secondly, by not advertising on Steam in the leadup, I believe most people will just get it for the PS4 where its still relatively free from piracy. After they sell through their initial units, they'll put it up on Steam. Square did a similar thing with Nier Automata, and waited for the PS4 Chinese version to be released before releasing the Steam version in SE countries.Tier 2 (lower priced countries) can't give it to Tier 1 countries. I think it needs to be less than 10% price difference to be giftable.