In the midst of the piracy discourse, I think this is actually a great reason to explain why Japanese people are so anti-piracy.
Cygames is bearing the brunt of this and refunding everyone's hotels and plane tickets. An American company would never. That's the difference.
You can find this game for half this price in japan.. there are no players internationally because it's so expensive, the devs didn't even bother translating items on the store page, the game has bad translation too
Only one other game in the series even released internationally