Publisher Zen United Discloses 2012 Release for Persona 4 Arena in Europe “No Longer Possible”

by MyLifeIsAnRPG on November 5th, 2012 at 9:38 am

The official Persona Europe Facebook account recently posted some bad news for European Persona fans. Unfortunately, a 2012 Persona 4 Arena release does not appear to be in the cards. The game has been delayed with no concrete release date, as the EU master build is not yet complete. In addition, the game will not be localized into individual region languages in order to assure a faster release.

According to the Facebook account, European fans will be getting “something nice” to make up for the wait, though what this bonus is won’t be revealed until a new release schedule is determined.

Source: Persona Europe Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1094163950 Michael O’Connell Davidson

What a surprise!
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Narcowski

Atlus should really found an EU branch to avoid this crap.
jubeiyagyuX

Fuck you Atlus!
tiki.92

LMFAO! Nobody wants anime games in Europe.
http://www.facebook.com/frostey Eben Amadeus Selker

What a bad joke this whole “PS3 Localization” crap is… I mean if you’re going to make a PS3-region locked game, be swift I suppose, because you HAVE OTHER NON-REGION LOCKED GAMES COMPETING AGAINST YOU. -_-
- http://twitter.com/HooliganCombo James Reilly
  
  Who cares? stop overreacting Xbox had this for years for EVERY game
  - acidthorn
    
    As a matter of fact, Xbox still has this for a lot of games, just not every game (Dark Souls, for example)
  - http://twitter.com/LordKurow Kurow Akutenshi
    
    Which is the reason I support Sony now. And why I won’t support Nintendo. If Sony will do a similarly retarded thing next gen then I’ll just stick to PC.
Uno

This delay is gonna kill persona sales which is a bummer
- http://www.facebook.com/frostey Eben Amadeus Selker
  
  By now, more people in Europe have Aquapazza! #Kappa
  - Narcowski
    
    Aquapazza is a better game anyways though; it’s the most solid new fighter I’ve seen in a long time. Everybody at the local gatherings where I am likes it, be they Street Fighter players, Marvel players, or GG players.
    - GC001
      
      Sure it is… If you don’t mind paying $80 American or more to import the game. It’s not as if Japanese games are at their cheapest prices right now…! Not to mention there’s almost no chance AquaPazza will make it out of Asia because of all the anime licenses in the game.
      
      The fact that we’re hitting saturation near the end of a console lifecycle probably isn’t helping sales much, either. I think Darkstalkers IV might possibly be the last “major” fighting game release for PS3/XBox 360 IF it can be developed quickly enough. If not, it’ll probably get released on the next console cycle.
      
      What I’m for sure right now is that A) I haven’t seen game prices this high in AT LEAST 20 years (still a BD release is a heck of a lot better value than a $100 16-megabit SFC cartridge release) and B) enough of the games that I want get released in the States that I don’t bother with importing like I did 14-16 years ago. There’s no point in it since the PS2 era. Also, I’m not one of those gamers that has to have a game right away… I’ve wait 6 months to a year to buy some import games and saved quite a bit of money. You can save 50-60% if you wait a bit… The Euro LE version of Arcana Heart 3 was so much cheaper than the Japanese edition and was basically the same thing (with a bit more English). Only about $15 more than the American download and a much better deal for those of us who like to own their games on disc.
      - Narcowski
        
        Execution in Aquapazza is relatively easy; it’s getting your spacing just right that takes the most practice. As such, you can really just get a single copy for your local scene and learn by playing the game, which wasn’t viable with AH3. If you split the cost just four ways, it’s ~$20 a person with EMS shipping. I actually didn’t think I’d like the game before I played it, for the record, but after a day of AP casuals and a 12 man impromptu (unscheduled + day 1 for all but two people there [a day 1 player won]) tournament for the game at a tournament relatively close by (in state, 4hr drive), I ended up paying to import it (by myself) almost right away. It’s the first fighting game I have literally seen nobody in the local scene dislike, be they mainly players of SF, Marvel, or some other game. I’m not going to say it’s for everyone, but I’m yet to find someone that dislikes it after playing the game.
        
        If you don’t have a group of people to play offline with, you should probably work on fixing that before you get into fighters at all since (as a rule of thumb) netplay kind of sucks even when the netcode is good.
        
        PS: On the subject of Vampire 4… I really don’t know if I should even bother being excited for it or not anymore. It’s lost a lot of its visual charm in the transition from 2D sprites to 3D models, and we’ve seen nothing of the gameplay. Assuming it will be good just because of its branding is fallacious – you need look no farther than SFxT for proof of that.
    - shadow111431
      
      Sh!t wouldn’t last a day in America.
  - Neah
    
    I actually spent the money I had set aside to import P4A on Aquapazza after this region lock business and Zen united. I can honestly say it was well worth the purchase.
http://twitter.com/EDarkness Sunbrother ED

Don’t really care about this game now. GGXXAC+R is more likely to be patched out by then and BBCP will be around the corner.
Anywho someone has shot themselves in the foot by taking this long.
Rene castaneda

dat region locking also PAL is lol
http://twitter.com/Pandaboy01 Panda

as long as we get the game. i don’t mind waiting a few more months.
- http://www.turpakellari.com Kurdijef
  
  I commend your dedication because the wait has definitely and surely killed all the hype around my town.
http://handsomefatman.com/ Carlos Alexandre

Sucks for European fans. Here’s hoping it’s very early in 2013.
Fluffkins

I’m not sure how ASW, Zen United and Atlus continue to get away with this inexcusable publishing practice. Probably because they cater to hardcore niche gamers who will complain but still end up buying the games no matter what.

Single player RPGs is one thing, but fighting games live and die by their online communities. These delays serve nobody and we don’t even know who’s responsible or why it’s taking so long. It would be nice if there was some journalistic effort – By Shoryuken, say! – to figure out what the hell is going on and maybe put some pressure in the right place. Atlus and ASW seem happy to throw Zen United to the wolves as their PR face but if they gave the slightest damn we’d at least have a date by now.
- Luna Kazemaru
  
  I don’t see how ASW fits in the blame game its not their IP :/
  - Fluffkins
    
    It isn’t, but the same thing has happened with Blazblue, repeatedly. Calamity Trigger came to Europe over a year after the US and Continuum Shift five months later. You’ll find similar gaps if you look into Guilty Gear release dates as well.
    
    Granted, Atlus has similar problems with EU release dates, which is why it would be nice to have some clarity.
    - Michael Edwards
      
      A friend of mine brought up a good point. Rising Star Games seem to be doing a better job of getting releases out in EU. They published KOFXIII for European regions. So, does Zen have a deadlock on ASW games since they’re referred to as Arc Sys Europe or is there other factors that stops a company like RSG from releasing it quicker?
- Ndebe
  
  Your whole post is flat out wrong. Fighting games do not “live and die” by their communities, “journalistic effort” is a bad joke, and of course Atlus and ASW would throw Zen United “to the wolves,” it is Zen United’s job to bring P4A to Europe on time not Atlus’s job (who published it for NA/JP) or ASW (they aren’t even the publishers). With this amount of ignorance coming from some people, no wonder everyone thinks forum monsters and commenters are idiots.
  - Fluffkins
    
    Fighting games are primarily multiplayer games. While P4A gets a little break for being partly marketed towards a JRPG audience, how can you claim that multiplayer is not the mainstay of the game? Any multiplayer game is affected by the extent of its community.
    
    Zen United has stated that there’s nothing they can do at the time because it’s not their job to code the EU master, as you’d know if you’d read the news link. While this doesn’t excuse ZE, it does mean either Atlus or ASW is sitting on their hands and not bothering to release a press statement that ZE can use for PR. Check out their Facebook page; It’s full of increasingly desperate fluff posts and they’re travelling all over Europe showing the game at events because they simply have nothing else they can do right now.
    
    And finally, as consumers the only options we have are to either not buy the game or let the people responsible know that we don’t appreciate being treated like this. The best way to do the latter is to get the story out in the open. I eagerly await your suggestions as to other constructive solutions to the problem!
http://twitter.com/thecapsaicinkid thecapsaicinkid

This absolutely blows my mind. What on earth could possibly cause such a delay other than complete, weapons-grade ineptness?? These guys really don’t deserve your custom.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IMW4FEU4ORLNXO7RPHLGXYUDUA Luke Taylor

id rather play sfxt than play an RPG based fighting game
and thats bad
- http://www.facebook.com/people/ファイター-ストリート/1441869768 ファイターストリート
  
  Um…okay? No one cares what you would rather play. This article is about the delayed European release of Persona 4 Arena, an amazing fighting game that several people clearly enjoy. Perhaps you should go and actually play SFXT instead of leaving completely useless comments on articles about games that you’d rather not play. Wow.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Yan-Zhao/10516382 Yan Zhao

I was going to say that its probably taking so long due to the multiple languages to translate for the visual novel-esque story mode. But then I read the headline and said they weren’t doing this to make it release faster.

Now Im honestly mind boggled as to why its taking so freaking long if its not for the reason I first assumed. Sucks for Europeans to say the least.
mathan81

Is Zen United seriously the only PAL distributer willing to handle their games? Someone else needs to step the fuck up. BBCT coming out a year later should have rung alarm bells.
http://www.facebook.com/people/ファイター-ストリート/1441869768 ファイターストリート

This is very unfortunate, Europeans are missing out on a fantastic title.
Simply Chun-believeable ^_~ ♥♥

Oh dear…thats unfortunate for you guys…
CrimsonMoonMist

At least it’s news at all.
Zen united is awful when it comes to their releases, at least with BB I could import it.
kupo_kun

No surprise there. I still wanna play this game.
ytse0932

GGs Zen.I want to punch that teddy at perona europe facebook so bad..

I was so hyped about this game.But with these delays and the new version of GGAC coming out definitely before P4A ,i decided to boycot the game as many others.
And my guess is that if there are people still playing this game in Japan and US ,by the time they release it here,Atlus will be announcing a new version like P4A the golden lol.

Let’s hope that Atlus finds another publisher in the EU really soon. This game will be dead on arrival considering that there are many great games coming out in 2013.Only thing that could partly save them is release the game half price(25 euros max) and with all the dlc.
Otherwise it may be a complete failure,but it serves them right when they release games months or even a year later
NickLeake

Europe gonna get P4AU:2013 edition with new P3 DLC?
- chipsndips
  
  That’s a Capcom thing…
http://twitter.com/LordProsper Johnathen Blevins

Is Zen United just some dude in his basement or something? It should not take this long to release a game that is ALREADY IN ENGLISH. I feel pretty bad for Europe.
http://www.facebook.com/ggsnipes Amal Aditya Prasad

Literally forgot about this game after I saw this LOL

but to me I rather get GGXXAC+ than wait wait more months to get P4A, was hyped at first till the delays came in.
- Torbjørn Rønningsen
  
  In norway, we didn’t even get the new release of GG on xbox…
  - http://www.facebook.com/yo.bo.501 Yo Bo
    
    I think you could let them know if you wanted the new GG in your region here: https://twitter.com/PersonaEurope/status/263590059188559872
    Not sure wether it is still available or not.
SethGravijah

I was about to buy the game in August.
I cancelled my preorder in September.
… and I guess Zen United should now cancel the whole europe game release.

It’s F##### TOO LATE !!

Who will buy the game ? A couple of persona fans, who won’t play the game more than a week.
And then Japan will say : “Europe doesn’t like our games”
Come on, make them world wide release, and then we talk !
Crazy_O

Bought a japanese PS3 living in Europe. Imported the game.. but I can’t find people with a good ping online :/

Anyone from Europe who owns a jp or us ps3 and persona care to meet sunday 19 CET? I’ll create a lobby.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Yahkim-Siffel/100001370016186 Yahkim Siffel

That’s the fucked up archaic thing about region locked games: Somehow, someway, somebody ALWAYS misses out. Now technically/supposedly Europe will not be missing out, but they will certainly be waiting, and it’s just really messed up for no real reason technological or logical imo. I mean hasn’t this happened with damn near every Blazblue? Correct me if I am wrong please, but I’m pretty sure it has, and if so you’d think they’d be a lot more prepared this time. I hope Aksys NEVER has another region locked game again, lets leave that in the past with the PS2.
http://twitter.com/HooliganCombo James Reilly

Dlc is coming, its gonna coincidentally happen when that P3 Movie drops in Japan. Thats most likely Europe gonna benefit from
- http://twitter.com/DashKrimson Dale Ambrosius
  
  P3 movie? What’s this?
BeholdMyPower

Expected, and I hope they expect very poor sales when the game eventually – if at all – drops. I’ve tried to maintain it, but my excitement for the game has dried up. The game wasnt done any favours by BBCP/GGACP being announced so close to its launch, and by the time it comes to EU, P4A might be essentially irrelevant.
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http://whatistheexcel.com/ Excel-2012

This is our revenge for Xenoblade.
http://twitter.com/Doopliss_Swe Doopliss_SWE

I don’t get it, I thought it was the translations to multipla languages that took time. What’s the problem, seriously!? Luckily I don’t care about Persona, but if they do the same thing for BBCP…
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http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Riggenbach/100000575558258 Robert Riggenbach

Dont feel sorry for you, I’ve had to import quite a few games that europe got that we were supposed to get but never did.

Xenoblade and TLS almost ended up the same way, hows it taste?
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Digital Redeemer

Nooooooooooooo i want it now i beat persona 2 & 3 this month on the ps3 but wheres persona 4. Persona 4 is the best out of all of them apparently. im so fidgety i want it Grrrrrrrrrr
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