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Bad news for U.S. gamers who hoped to be able to test their skills against Japanese players in AH3LM: the recently released U.S. version of the game does not allow for play against its Japanese counterpart. Players had noticed they were unable to match against the Japanese version of the game since Aksys's localization released, but had hoped it was only a glitch or other small problem.

Aksys, however, has since broke the bad news:

Unfortunately, we were told that there are no plans at this time to implement cross-region netplay. #sadheart

— Aksys Games (@aksysgames) September 24, 2014

The problem seems to stem from the fact that the versions of the Japanese and U.S. release are not the same, causing compatibility issues.

Greetings, all. About the #AH3LM patches: the Japanese patches are already in the game. The American patch is for something else.

— Aksys Games (@aksysgames) September 24, 2014

This means the Japanese and American patch numbers for #AH3LM WILL NOT coincide. Don't panic, NA has the most up to date version of the game

— Aksys Games (@aksysgames) September 24, 2014