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Kresnik on 07 February 2013

In an odd move, the online servers for Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate on Wii-U are region locked, Capcom have revealed.

Monster Hunter series producer, Ryozo Tsujimoto, shared the information with Gamereactor in a recent interview.  This means that American players will not be able to play online with European players, and neither one of them will be able to play with Japanese players either.  Capcom have since confirmed the news on their forums.

It should be noted that Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate runs on Nintendo servers, but just what the cause of this decision is remains unknown, considering that Nintendo 3DS games allow for cross-region online multi-player. 

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate will be released on March 19th in North America and March 22nd in Europe.

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/02/07/monster-hunter-3-ultimates-online-multiplayer-is-region-locked/



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M.U.G.E.N on 07 February 2013

why? what possible benefit is there to this move?



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Kresnik on 07 February 2013

I'm not sure whether this is actually bad news or not, depends on who you play with I suppose, but thought it was worth posting in case there's anyone out there planning to play cross-continent. Although I wouldn't imagine it'd make much difference with Japan since the language barrier would be there anyway.

Seems an odd choice, but there you go.



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animegaming on 07 February 2013

well crapcom is run by idiots



Mr Khan on 07 February 2013

If they were running on Capcom's servers, i wouldn't find it odd at all: Tri was also region-locked. But if it's on Nintendo's servers, no, it really doesn't make sense

Unless Capcom is just porting their Tri netcode straight over.



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M.U.G.E.N on 07 February 2013
Kresnik said:
I'm not sure whether this is actually bad news or not, depends on who you play with I suppose, but thought it was worth posting in case there's anyone out there planning to play cross-continent. Although I wouldn't imagine it'd make much difference with Japan since the language barrier would be there anyway.

Seems an odd choice, but there you go.


I honestly don't see a benefit to this :S 

Does this mean you can't play the game with your friends who are in a different continent as well?



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Mr Khan on 07 February 2013
M.U.G.E.N said:
Kresnik said:
I'm not sure whether this is actually bad news or not, depends on who you play with I suppose, but thought it was worth posting in case there's anyone out there planning to play cross-continent. Although I wouldn't imagine it'd make much difference with Japan since the language barrier would be there anyway.

Seems an odd choice, but there you go.


I honestly don't see a benefit to this :S 

Does this mean you can't play the game with your friends who are in a different continent as well?

Unless they own a version of the game from that continent (and, of course, a region-free Wii U, which can't happen yet).

I do recall a Greek user with a Demons Souls avatar who played with us in Tri back in the day, but he deliberately had an American Wii.



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M.U.G.E.N on 07 February 2013
Mr Khan said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
Kresnik said:
I'm not sure whether this is actually bad news or not, depends on who you play with I suppose, but thought it was worth posting in case there's anyone out there planning to play cross-continent. Although I wouldn't imagine it'd make much difference with Japan since the language barrier would be there anyway.

Seems an odd choice, but there you go.


I honestly don't see a benefit to this :S 

Does this mean you can't play the game with your friends who are in a different continent as well?

Unless they own a version of the game from that continent (and, of course, a region-free Wii U, which can't happen yet).

I do recall a Greek user with a Demons Souls avatar who played with us in Tri back in the day, but he deliberately had an American Wii.


That sounds...horrible. wtf companies make the weirdest choices some times



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Chrizum on 07 February 2013

Seems stupid. I doubt there will be enough European players online to even warrant a purchase.



mtu9356 on 07 February 2013

Maybe it has something to do with the Japanese having to pay a monthly subscription to play online? But then why can't Europe and NA play together?...