I posted about it on GAF, so figured I'd mirror it over here.
The Arc System Works submission process has been an absolute nightmare.
We've been through submission 4-5 times now, and there were a small number of bugs that we couldn't reproduce or would never happen in real life. Stuff like "Go to this screen, this step, now yank the network cable out."
These sorts of bugs are easily waived in the US and EU, and were! But because this is a physical release, Sony JP won't approve it because it had bugs and there is no guarantee that they'll connect to the internet to patch it.
What's that you say? The bugs are online only, so they'd have to get online to see them happen? And thus if they were online they'd get the patch?
Fuck off - SCEJ doesn't appreciate your logic or attitude.
And, yes, really - this is what passes for developer support in Japan.
We believe we've managed to fix the last remaining bugs, so Arc is doing more internal testing now before they submit again.