North American Box Art...

[arcanedude34]

She looks mildly constipated and as though she hasn't washed her hair in weeks.

[VeloZer0]

I would imagine throught the course of the game she wouldn't be washing her hair for weeks at a time.

And maybe moving from Cocoon to Pulse has a steeper learning curve than we imagine, like learning to boil the water first.

[Rostum]

She looks mildly constipated and as though she hasn't washed her hair in weeks.

So she fits in with the target demograph?

[P4ine]

Too bad it's gonna serve for the European cover as well as I liked the European ones the way they were, namely like the japanese ones: only the logo on a white background.

[Mirage]

Too bad we didn't get the classic logo on white background stuff.

[Psychotic]

This is much more worthy of a boycott than "Oh no, Xbox 360 caused me to lose Japanese subtitles!" or whatever it is those people are complaining about.

[ANGRYWOLF]

at some point I guess we can safely assume they will have different box art.

We still don't know yet (do we ?) if there will be those versions and if there are how they will differ from the regular game.

[Mirage]

Doesn't make much sense to call them "PAL" versions when they aren't locked to regions anymore :p.

I'm not interested in purchasing the same game twice, or waiting forever just for a new boxart.

[VeloZer0]

I'm not interested in purchasing the same game twice

Oh, but I can assure you there are people who are.

[ANGRYWOLF]

would have some additional content, such as what happened with FFX.
Penance and the dark aeons.

So it wouldn't be exactly the same game as the regular release.

[Psychotic]

The Dark Aeons were nowhere near worth paying full release price if you already had the game.

Besides, I think any extra content like the Dark Aeons will come through DLC (and Square have hinted at XIII DLC) rather than any additional versions.

[ANGRYWOLF]

new content appearing via DLC.

You may also be right about the game not worth it, to be purchased twice although I suspect some fans did buy FFX twice when the other versions became available.

I think the box art for the International versions was different than the regular FFX box art. That might have been the primary motivation for some fans to buy the International version.

We'll see what Square says down the road.

The box art for NA doesn't impress me very much.

[Mirage]

FFX International is probably best described as a "directors cut", the PAL release just happened to be based on this version. Most people wouldn't get a directors cut of a movie they already had unless they liked it realllly well, and that's most likely the case with video games too.

[Skyblade]

FFX International is probably best described as a "directors cut", the PAL release just happened to be based on this version. Most people wouldn't get a directors cut of a movie they already had unless they liked it realllly well, and that's most likely the case with video games too.

Like Lord of the Rings...

But I'm not sure Square-Enix is going to release the extras as DLC. That would go against their whole "screw everyone outside Japan" mentality...

[Rad Bromance]

"screw everyone outside Japan" mentality...

You do realize the whole reason those International/Final Mix/etc versions get released in Japan is because the North American releases typically have added content that Japan's original version didn't have so they get that stuff and more, right? Sephiroth in KH and the weapons in FFVII are examples of this (they weren't in the original Japanese versions).