[Off the record] SB EU version status

Against my better judgment I decided to share the answer from SB President on twitter regarding SB EU version's status. I shall provide no link to it.

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Me: Great work on fixing [SB BIG] bugs. While I'm OK with you not ever releasing SB BUG, essentially still a paid beta version, outside of Japan, please for the love of god release SB EU already. Now that Switch is just around the corner, I pity my fellow European SB programmers soooo much...! Kobayashi: The EU approval process is more stringent than we thought and we are still having a hard time. They still wouldn't give us the green light. Once it's approved we can release immediately, but. Me: I see, so it's out of your hands then? Why not officially announce that SB EU ver is pending publisher approval? That way no one can blame you for holding up the release without a reason and can keep waiting patiently.

I don't expect him to tweet back again but there's that. I know the EU rating system over there is overly complicated compared to the States, so I can understand their frustration. The waiting game continues, off the record!

i told you they were still working on it

Will the 3DS eShop even exist by the time they're done approving it? But seriously, their system must be pretty horrible if it takes this long to look at a game that barely has any built-in content.

Don't they usually say something like "online content not rated"? Or is that not allowed with their rating system.

It could be PEGI or Nintendo of Europe now that I think about it, the latter may be checking hackability since SB was one of the entry points. There must be more red tape and hoops to jump through than NoA. ^{I mean, NoA even approved garbage such as Meme Run...!}