i just got fifa 11 and from play asia so different region and the damn online pass is region locked if i have to create a asian psn account how do I and that sucks cause i wont get trophys on my normal nz  account

feel ripped of thats rediculous i might have to do what there trying to prevent and sell the game

any help to unlock it to my account and is this the same with all there games like medal of honor or just sports

Sell it now, i don't think region locking is from PSN server but more of the region on the disk, i had WWE before and wanted to play online with my friend but i couldn't on ALL accounts because my version was Europe and his was US one.

Sounds like your the asshole not EA. Why did you buy it from Asia?

i just locked it up and apparently if i create a hong kong account and activate it on that it wil activate online for the system so my original account will work but i dont want to waste my pass

get real because its cheaper and still in english got it for $70 nz and it retails here for $119 so nearly half price thats why and they should have region lock on something like this what if your on holiday like alot people are when they buy games forces you to pay twice

Fair enough. Damn $119 WTF? that's way too much

thats new zealand $ thoguh but thats $90 u.s so i either buy from playasia.com or ebay or get stuff second hand from trademe our ebay like site

in AUS the games are $110 AUD and guess what, the AUD is 99 US Cents(could past the USD) hopefully the change it down for next year games. 

PS3 isn't region locked but the EA severs are which stupid. 

Buy Single player games from Asia but for Multiplayer stick with the extremely overpriced games.

they say its high risk, yea right thats an lame excuse. Dont stock to many games by small if they sell out then yea buy more, and we have like 1 million PS3 in Aus, 1 million 360s and around 2-3 million wii's and we by so many electronics Japan's companies love us here and gives us cheap tvs now. But not games no no no they have to screw us constantly. 

Buy from Asia f online 

oh btw 

create an Hong Kong or Singapore or Malaysian account, they are all English speaking Asian countries 

EAGames , UbiSoft and many other publishers are trying increasingly to region lock their software. Nintendo for example actually tries to ban importing the games. Its all economics they want to sell you the software locally for many reasons. One of the biggest is if they don't make money bringing the game to your country then they need to boost prices for everyone else. Its not cheap to sell your products in every individual country this costs money and each branch needs to be able to generate profit.

Example if everyone imports their games, why should the publisher localize anything? If publishers stop localizing products which products are left to be sold in your countries retail outlets. In the end a major reason software is so much more expensive is because their isn't as big of a population in your country, so the publisher needs to sell the software higher to make back a profit.

Many other reasons too, I'd suggest you buy your products locally. If your too poor then maybe import them but understand that the publisher shouldn't provide you services you don't pay for. Why provide you with online localized to your region if you didn't pay for localization (Some of that extra cost goes to providing services to your region).