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Still region-locked unfortunately, at least for now.
Is there any argument for region locking games? Doesn't even need to be good.
I did kind of understand why they region locked dvd players back in the day (if we can make them pay twice why shouldn't we, after all we are despicable morons who can only look a line that goes up). But for games, I can't make sense of it.
Well it was kinda logical when the PSN account was required, in the sense that you can't activate it in the country it's sold in because PSN doesn't work in that country (another question is why it doesn't but let's not focus on that). But since there is no more PSN requirement then there's nothing stopping people from activating it so it makes no sense to region lock it now.