BraLoD said: But how do you expect to play Uncharted 4 multiplayer on another platform? I'm pretty sure you buy PlayStation to play the games it gets, if you are to switch to another platform because of a problem you had on a game service, well, will it be worth letting go of all the games PS gets for that? If you are okay with that, go ahead and get another system. Be sure to know that if you sell your PS4 and/or avoid the PS5 in favor of another platform you'll be missing a lot, make sure you are really ok with it bro.

Thanks! But like I said in a previous post, I'm talking about lead platform. So my priority in term of investment and multiplatform games. I'll keep the PS4 anyway and will surely buy the PS5 one day, but depending on stuff like censorship I might invest in a Switch or my PC in priority. I usually own 15+ PS games by generation, for around 3 Nintendo games and 3 PC games, I'm thinking about changing the ratio. I don't want to buy censored games, and buying multiplayer games on Playstation could be risky because I might go back to France one day and lose my progress again...

I am a big fan of Sony and their exclusive games, but their "policies" and their evolution are really disappointing.

Are you planning on moveing again to the other side of the world anytime soon?
If not shouldnt really be a issue.

ROFL!  Turning to a Nintendo platform to avoid censorship?

Yeah, that will work out in the long run, even if some indie games manage to slip through the cracks due to the overload of Switch ports right now.

That sounds like pretty terrible customer service I agree, but sadly I don't think this issue is all that common (someone buying their games in one region and then moving to another region for a long period of time) and I doubt there is already protocol established for it. I will say that locking microtransaction points to a region is really damn stupid, but I imagine there is good reason for it. Quick example being that perhaps there is a new launch in another region and as a result there's a big sale on a MTX currency hoping to get the new players hooked. If the stuff wasn't region locked then a veteran player could use their same account and buy up the currency on the new launch region and then apply it to their veteran account.

For your situation it definitely sucks. I wouldn't be very happy either.

MS certainly doesn't do the same. I use an American account I set up back on 360, when I was living in the states. Always play on European servers since moving back to Germany, unless I specifically join a friend hosting on a US server.

The new Sony policy is way worse than Nintendo. It's weird, sure, but Nintendo became the good guy compared to Sony in terms of censorship. And Nintendo doesn't ask Japanese developers to defend their game in English even for a Japan only release. But PC is obviously even better.

It's way worse than the situation you described. I have another account, Japanese one, and I bought currency on this local account. But I can't use it because I bought my physical game when I was in Europe. No reason to forbid that, you can't cheat since the currency can't be transferred to my EU account.

Upgrade your gaming PC for multiplayer and use your Playstation consoles for SP games and exclusives. It's dumb as hell that you can't change your region. I change my Xbox region to AUS all the time to snag free DLC for MP games I am playing and when I go into matchmaking I still get good matches. Not surprised Sony would allow you to buy currency but then not allow you to use it or give you a refund. They do a lot of stuff right but their policies regarding purchases have always been complete garbage.

Switch probably isn't a bad alternative either, tbh I have never used mine online outside of a few MK races.

I'm not a huge fan of that kind of stuff, but I like Visual Novels and you have sometimes scenes with a bit of ecchi. And having the games released later than other platforms to include big white bands covering half of the screen is not really something I'm looking forward to. And like I said, I wouldn't be surprised to see a Nier Automata 2 with the same kind of outfit on PC, but with pants on PS4, because butts are bad. I hate censorship, because you never know when it's going to stop.

Not in this generation, they are doing the opposite of Sony, namely in Japan. They are allowing everything, which is surprising. Action speak louder than words, and right now Nintendo is allowing Japan to be Japan, something Sony isn't.

I'm not sure what you can do about much of that. The Switch is great and bound to have Fire Emblem games on it (while Advance Wars is in eternal limbo) but Nintendo is never great at the whole online, and there's PS/Xbox games that just won't appear on it since it's not nearly as powerful. Speaking of Xbox, nobody buys them in Japan. And there's tons of game that aren't even from Sony that only appear on PS4, and maybe Switch. There's also PC gaming but you'll miss out on a ton of console specific games and if you've been a console only player most of you life, it might not be your thing. A lot of what you described sucks but no clear immediate solutions are evident.

PS5 and Xbox Whatever will be out in like two years or so, so my advice would be just to wait and see how much Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft change by then and what the conosles/exclusives look like and go from there. And maybe buy a Switch in the meanwhile.