Has the Definitive Ed. of DQ11 superseded the original in the market? Not simple.

Dragon Quest 11S, the Definitive Edition, was released in Dec 2020 for Steam, PS4, and Xbox. The original version is now (secretly?) withdrawn from the Steam Store, to my surprise. But is this usurpation complete? The story is not simple. Let's examine it.

NB: I took snapshots for most linked pages. So as-of-writing information, in May 2021, is well preserved.

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Omakuni, a peculiarity of the Japanese PC game market, explained à la Wikipedia

In the online sale of computer games, the Japanese word omakuni (おま国) roughly means disadvantage by Japanese game publishers toward the Japanese PC game players. More precisely, omakuni is the custom such that games by Japanese publishers originally sold for home consoles are later released for PC in download distribution, and that this PC version is not sold to residents of Japan.

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