Square unveils three Final Fantasy XI expansions
Developer: SCE Studios London
Publisher: SCE
Genre: Misc
Sub-Genre: Simulation
Release Date: Q4 2008
Additonal Info: Available exclusively on the...
Adding another item to the list of region limited services today, it appears Home will have various restrictions based on locale.
While you'll be able to invite your friends from across the pond to your home space, you won't be able to take them out on the town to experience Home Square or other public spaces. This limitation guarantees that users experience content that is relevant to them, according to Sony. It likely keeps the advertisers happy as well.
I've devised a half-baked solution though: put a bowling alley and pool table in your apartment. It's known to be possible, but you'll most likely have to pay for such content. Regardless, it's a way you can best your foreign friends from the comfort of your virtual home.

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hmm, well i guess that also solves the language barrier problems too.
i dont really care that much i really only want to hang out with people on my friends list anyways
You make this sound like a bad thing.
After MGO being region locked I've noticed how much I love it.
Some Americans can get rather anoying at times. Recism and high pitched children are only a few of the details I won't be missing.
All I can say is thanks Sony. (No offence intended to the general population of America).
All I care about is a release date.
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That is one of the reasons for the delays of Home, so that they could fix server stability problems, and MAG can hold up to 256 people PER game, I'm sure they have figured out a way to have loads of users while still providing smoothness.
As long as you can invite people from all over the world into your home space and go off and play together I don't mind that you cannot share certain public spaces with them.
wait a minute I thought they said they'd integrate "dynamic advertisement" or whatever its called; were in if you're from the UK you only see british ads and and the same with the US and other refions respectively. - I just want to play with my friends and people from all around the world.
@Aperez beware of the quality vs quantity dozy just like in tests would you rather have 5 or 50 questions in yours?
i dont get it
Good.
yep im all for a bit of seperation
Keep us seperated we dont want a world war 3 online
this wont bother me, all of my friends that I would like to hang out with are from where I live. So this doesnt bother me at all. It may for some people. But who cares about them.
why not make region free areas. sony spots or something. there are companies that would love being able to reach out to the entire world instead of just one demographic. this really sucks for people that live abroad.
Oh wow, Sony yet again trying to regionalize everything they have a f***ing hand in.
Good one Sony!
WTF is up with Sony these days? They just seem to want to p11ss people off.
If it helps stability then I'm all for it. Besides, you can still invite people from other regions into your private room, right? So it's not like we can't meet up with people from outside our specific regions.
Its all about hanging out with your friends and doing activities anyway.
But Sony must keep everything in control still.
I don't think I will miss Americans much anyway.
There goes my chance of flirting with European babes.... ;(
psn id: gingo... it makes sense and i'm glad they are not stopping you from inviting people to your own private space because that would be a disgrace
thats cool with me cause i can careless about an AD. of any kind in the UK i have no interest of going there or would I go there. besides dont know body wanna here 8 diffrent languages in there ear at one time or that annoying british accent .it sux cant get the chance to get a asian chick
@animaonline: I think "recist" live everywhere, as well as whiners and children....people are so closed minded and unwilling to tolerate any society other than their own...y'all need to go eat some poop m'kay?...lol
This must be some network error on Sony's behalf. Why can't they have dynamic ads for specific regions? There must be some error when one member from one region and one member from a different region occupy the same space and when viewing the ads there is a conflict. Unless this region locking will help with some bandwidth issues then i'm all for it. But nonetheless I just hope they can release Home without too many bugs, but thats what the open beta is for, so try not to be picky about Home. We know Sony will come through.
Stupid. Sony failures++
God d*mn it! Now I'm stuck in Home with a bunch of germans and french guys! THE INTERNET IS ENGLISH!!!