Why this game isn't available in my country?

I'm not worried about Curse of the Moon, as it has little to nothing to warrant a ban. 
But I am worried about Ritual of the Night, as it may get banned here for nudity (Bloodless) and religious connotations (cross ^{although I haven't seen a cross yet in the game}).

Please look into that. If a censored version is needed, it would be better than the game being banned here.

Arikado God of War was banned due to the paranoia created by the older games, so they started banning anything related to that brand.

I sent a message to one of the Playstation Middle East guys and hopefully they will reply to me as soon as possible!


If you want my personal opinion or suggestion regarding this, I would suggest you to create an alternative PSN account and choose different region. You can download the game from the alternative account and still be able to play it on your personal, main account.

About your friends being worried that they will not receive their Collectors box. Rest assured, banned games can be imported just fine (in case Bloodstained is banned) and for the European codes, like I said previously, they can just create an alternative European accounts.. let's say UK accounnt and you download the Game/DLCs from it. You will still be able to return to your main account and be able to play the game and it's downloadable content just fine.

Edit: Just found out that the Final Fantasy games are not publishing their newer games to the region and they are not banned.

Arikado The game sales count on this region would be heavily hurt if a certain games gets for sure, but it is beyond our control I'm afraid.. so the only thing we can do is just to send our complains to Sony and Sony will handle it to the information department.

Banned =/= Not published, they're having issues publishing the game for a certain region, but it is not banned.

Dengojin I'm not sure about the other Square Enix games that were not released here, but I've asked Playstation Support about Dissidia NT and I'll quote their reply here:



According to them, the game was banned here.

whitephoenix Understandable. I myself wouldn't want to play the game censored. My only concern is if the game does get banned, it may suffer financially as a result.

Dengojin Yeah, I'm not worried about Curse of the Moon being banned here. Hardly any reason to do that, honestly.

I have hopes that the Middle East will embrace the Bloodstained games as Gebel is named after an important historical man in the region who advanced the entire world in chemistry, mathematics, astronomy and more. Jabir Ibn Hayyan

Perhaps localization could remove whatever may prevent publishing in that region. I'd like Bloodstained to be the Castlevania game kids grow up and look back on fondly like we do for CV.

Dengo, I think this thread is good evidence a sister forum in your language would do well for establishing community in your region.

Seeing as how Curse isn't available in every region yet, I doubt this is a case of a game being banned. More likely it is delayed in that region or it isn't planned to be released in that region by Inti Creates. Have their other games released in the affected regions? That is probably a good indication on whether Curse is coming or not.

Regarding Ritual, I will mention the potential issue to Angel and see if it's something we can avoid for the launch.