So I bought FF13 and FF13-2 today

It's sad that for some reason, SE doesn't think that China is a part of Asia, and even doesn't want to sell FF13 to me. That's weird. But thankfully I can always get the game from other place.

So, I open Taobao to search for the game. Then, someone is offering the FF13 and 13-2 combo pack from France, for 138 Yuan. That's only less than 20 USD! Totally worth it! So I bought that. There's only one left in stock.

Some of you might wonder how can I get the box? Well I don't care about the box. I just want the key. The box is in France and I am in China, so it's hard to get the box.

So after waiting for a day, the one who sell me the game give me this.



Okay this is just the cover. The more important stuff is this.


So now I can activate this on my steam and download the game. 

But wait. Why do I post this?

Notice that this box only contains 1 DVD? If you ever player FF13, you already know what I'm talking.



Look at the size of the game. 1 DVD for disc version? I wonder what's inside that DVD. SE you are just kidding me!!! Well not me actually. But I really wonder what would happen when someone in France purchase the game disc in the local store, put the disc inside the tray, then find out that he need to download additional 65GB stuffs... Yes I bought the disc and I still need to download the whole game. That's just a joke. Can't SE just sell redeem card? The disc is literally useless. Also the box seems to be pretty suck too. Without the steam key inside, the box itself doesn't have any difference comparing with a pirated disc box.

Or, is that SE really want to sell disc version, but don't want to waste money on bluray disc, or don't want their customers not being able to play the game because of the lack of a bluray drive? I don't know. But they decided that they should put the key inside a box and put a useless disc inside to add some weight. Weird.

Also, they don't treat China as a part of Asia, and as a result I have to download the international version, which is twice as big as the Asia version. Yes, additional English voice included, but who needs that? 

ps. Pal 6 (仙剑奇侠传六) was released several days ago. But I didn't bought that game, because the game is really not so good, and the combat version is really a worse version of FF13's. It's quality is so suck that the game still look like those games 10 years ago. Or even 12 or 13 years ago. I watched Chesterccj's LP series just because I am still a little interested in the game. Well I also watched his LP on FF13 and FF10, and since I don't have a PSX console, and it seems that I like FF13 more, I decided to get FF13 and beat the game again myself.

Softstar should really make some improvement in their games. Yes the story is okay, but if the game is so suck, I would rather watch LP only and will never actually buy the game myself. And the first thing they need to do is actually use higher resolution texture. After all, Pal series is not Minecraft series isn't it?