"We were informed today by the original developer that the re-skin of characters is no longer an option. They are concerned that allowing us to have exclusive content will impact their product over in JP"

I don't understand. Wouldn't the JP players be getting the re-skins from the NA contest winners? Kind of like how we are going to get the contest winners from the JP version? I don't see why they had to cancel the NA contest. It made it sound as if our participation in such an event is a bad thing.