Globalization is one side of a late-story binary choice. When the concert cancellation is announced, accept the outcome and let the shopping mall be built. Some players report that Globalization unlocked after they loaded an existing save on 1.0.015. Treat that as a post-hotfix observation, not a new official trigger. The route remains: accept the concert cancellation and allow the mall to be built. If it stays locked, keep the pre-choice save and report the exact answer, completed scene, build, and Steam connection.
Player reports after hotfix 1.0.015
Some players report that Globalization unlocked after they loaded an existing save on 1.0.015. Treat that as a post-hotfix observation, not a new official trigger. The route remains: accept the concert cancellation and allow the mall to be built. If it stays locked, keep the pre-choice save and report the exact answer, completed scene, build, and Steam connection.
Post-patch reports on 1.0.013r
The public 1.0.013r notes do not announce a new Globalization trigger. The route remains the concert-cancellation branch: accept the outcome and allow the mall to be built. If the achievement stays locked, preserve the pre-choice save, finish the whole resulting scene, confirm Steam is online, and report the build and exact answer rather than repeating unrelated license or localization tasks.
Quick unlock answer
When you receive the news that the concert is canceled, accept the outcome and allow the shopping mall to be built. Continue through the result until Globalization appears. This is a story choice, not a requirement to buy every license, complete international orders, or change the game's language.
Save before the concert decision
Create a clearly labeled checkpoint before responding to the canceled-concert news. Globalization and Rock for the Ages sit on opposite answers to this moment. Keeping the checkpoint lets you unlock both without replaying the whole shop and protects you from confusing an earlier business decision with the final trigger.
The concert decision appears below Hashimoto. Match the meaning of the options to the route; the captured interface is French.
Globalization route checklist
Use the visible story prompt as the authority.
- Advance until the concert cancellation news
- Save before responding
- Accept the outcome
- Allow the shopping mall to be built
- Finish the resulting scene
- Confirm Globalization in Steam
- Keep the pre-choice save for the alternate achievement
The alternate Rock for the Ages choice
For Rock for the Ages, reload the same pre-choice save and choose the alternative that proposes selling the shop to Takumi and donating the funds. Do not combine the two descriptions into one route: accepting the mall produces Globalization, while sacrificing the shop for the concert produces the alternate achievement.
What does not matter
The achievement name does not refer to localization settings, tourists, email orders, marketplace purchases, or owning every device license. Those systems can coexist with the route, but the documented trigger is the late concert and shopping-mall decision.
If it stays locked
Verify that you selected the acceptance/mall outcome, not merely advanced past the first line of the conversation. Let the complete scene resolve, check Steam connectivity, and inspect the achievement list. If necessary, reload the pre-choice save and repeat only this branch on the current build.
Research links
These are the primary pages used to check the facts and current release context in this guide.
Official information, observable release behavior, and community reports are deliberately separated. A community report is not presented as a universal fix until it can be reproduced or supported by current patch notes.
