Subarashii

|The Taito Type X2 board has been pirated and Blazblue: Continuum Shift has been leaked. How bad is it; and what is Arc System Works' stance towards the whole thing?

|It's... annoying to be direct. Especially since it was ripped from the arcade. We sold the arcade version only to the professional arcade centers. So they ripped it.We are heavily concerned. We worked on the board system and the pc version as well. This is something we cannot prevent 100%, it's very unfortunate but there is nothing more we can do. We dont tolerate it. whenever we find someone uploading it we send a legal letter and ask them to shut it down. If they don't, we sue them. We are quite tough on this. But at the same time, we want to create the community for people enjoying playing together, talking to each other. So we can start from a community like yours. If you have a German champion, we are planning on doing a championchip. So you'd play the UK champion, the champion from France, and eventually the Japanese and/or American champions in the World Finals. Building a strong community is the only way we think we can prevent the piracy, since you can never enjoy playing the game alone as much as you would if you play with friends.