dexth, video games generally sell very well in Japan, but not in other asian countries. so most of the game publishers do not bother to translate the asian version to english and they do not treat the non japan countries as a major market (sad sad). Situation is getting better though, with some PS2/PS3/XBOX360 games being translated to chinese/english for the Asia version. I guess its due to higher video games demand in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. If we look into the past, most games prior to PS2 do not even have Asian version.

By the way, for FF - FF12 (non zodiac) has never had a Asian-english version. FF10 also never had Asian-english version. Both have Asian-Japanese version though. How do the asians read the japanese? we guess lor...

i am also glad that Sony removed the region lock for PS3 games , and most of the PSP games. now the asian gamers can choose to buy the US version in english.