Japan bans game key re-sales and (bafflingly) save data editors

Image from Polygon’s Mass Effect 2 Monster Factory, aided by Gibbed’s ME2 save editor.

A change to Japanese law has outlawed the re-distribution of game keys and – more confusingly – software that can alter save data for games. As reported by Gamasutra, this change came in December, but has already forced Japanese company Cyber Gadget to end sales of their seemingly innocuous PlayStation 4 save file editor. It’s not just sales of such tools that has been prohibited, but rather the distribution of “tools and programs for altering save data” entirely, with criminal penalties including five-year prison sentences and fines up to ¥5,000,000.

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