All of this is why 'regions' are evil and there is no good reason to have them in the Internet Age. Info is just data, and data can go anywhere. When the physical piece of software (oxymoron?) is no longer relevant, getting packs via a single ubiquitous location on the internet actually sounds cheaper for the distributor than multiple conflicting regions. This would all make sense if they where all going into the same 'Sony' pot, but nothing says loving like SCEA and SCEE fighting it out to see who sells more games. .

If only there was 1 WipeOut Pulse, with packs that worked no matter which region. Imagine all the content a replay value Pure would have had with JP+EU packs in 1?
Someone really needs to crack the new wad protection... ::sigh::