I am in Europe now......Sooner or later, Europe gona be the land of Microsoft & Nintendo, if that's Sony planned strategy.

most probably will. maybe now Sony no more money so extort on small trader.


Sony bullying the smaller trader with multiple law suits because Sony know they don't have the resource to defend.

of coz Sony didn't have the direct effect to Lik Sang closing. it's just a twist of word. the effect of Sony lawsuit makes Lik Sang to close their business. maybe they going to sell off their asset to pay Sony.

then they should have some kinds of big sales so that they will be able to clear their stocks as soon as possible. dunno why buy it doesnt happen.

Sony probably got awarded damages that FAR exceeded Lik-Sang's ability to cough up assets. Damned Sony - it's one thing to put a monopoly on imports, but shutting down a third party vendor that provides an option to customers to buy legal, safe imports is another.

Today is officially HATE SONY DAY.

Thank you.

why can't the they just stop selling import games to europe.. there's so many people around the world that like import games...
the closure of lik-sang.. will be a big hit to the gaming industries...

wanted to place order over lik-sang yesterday and found out they are forced to close down...kinda sad =( hopefully they would rise again~

i hope other e-retailers gang up to boycott $ony
Cancel the pre-order of PS3, and selling any $ony products... who knows they'll be the next victim??

PlayAsia and YesAsia still can survice without selling $ony products, as they sell other things like DVDs and other misc items too.

SCREW YOU $ONY!!!

regret of not getting tetris ds from lik-sang b4. just usd29.90.

it's a sad turn of event in the games e-retailers stories. I guess in the wake of the court decision...all the other region will follow suit and ride on the rulling. Soon there will be no more import games hardware or software?!

Honestly i think Sony is just finding a scapegoat to pin their failure for PSP lack of interested and sales ( compared to nintendo ).

At the end everybody losses...especially us malaysia. Lack of support and lack of interested in this region will opt user to join the dark side and in the end piracy will grew even stronger!

Only time will tell if the Empire will strike to the other e-retailers. So..."mari kita lihat sapa yang kena?!"

P.S - region free? bah! its a load of BS

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126480

^hehe, nigerian-scam modified to trap ex-L-S customers. maybe conceived by sony haters or fanatics!?

As soon as I found out, I lost respect for Sony.

Now I Nintendo fanboy all the way.

How did the scammers get the customers e-mail? Did Lik-Sang sold off their database to these scammers?

Pressure from the above, so they just cut open Lik-Sang... sorry for them...


Later on they sure will feel the pain...

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6160738.html

Play-Asia has confirmed that they will now suspend shipping of any Sony products to Europe...for now.

let me get this straight....Sony supplies goods to Lik-Sang.com, and then sues them to the ground for..."concerns" over voltage safety issues?

This post has been edited by young_soul: Nov 1 2006, 10:13 PM

I think Sony trying to find loop hole in their current downturn of sales. They wanna cover all areas that might affect them, I for one think that liksang/play-asia are great companies.. it's legal in way but more affordable. U should see how much they are charging here in australia for a xbox360 game.. cut throat

same here.. i went there and thinking about placing a pre-order on FF3 DS earlier today and found out about this

u can preorder ps3 in play-asia again. looks like they are not afraid of sony at all.

Yes, they continued. But they have already stated that those PS3s on pre-order will not be shipped to Europe. See my post #34.

I think the whole blame cannot be placed on Sony only.The EU has some very strict laws regarding electronics compatibility,voltage safety and stuff like that.Perhaps Sony was forced to take action against Lik-Sang which probably is the most obvious choice for Sony,maybe due to their active trading in Europe.I am not defending Sony but clearly Lik-Sang isn't the only victim here.

Even Microsoft had to bow down to EU laws on the issue of Internet Explorer being bundled together with Windows XP OS.