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We’re about four months from the launch of the biggest game of the year: Grand Theft Auto 6. The hype is no doubt through the roof, but if you’re in Japan, you’ll need to turn that excitement into immediate action because you’ll have a limited amount of time to redeem the code that comes in the game box.<\/p>\n

As outlined in a June 24 FAQ on Rockstar Games’ support page, Japanese gamers will have 170 days to use the code, or it’ll expire. The official wording is as follows:<\/p>\n

Product codes in Japan will expire 170 days after the issuance date, which is the launch date (November 19, 2026), due to regional regulations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This means that, from the time you buy the game, you’ll have just shy of six months to redeem the code if you live in Japan. Otherwise, like opened condiments and pantry-stored brown rice, your code will go bad and straight-up expire. It’s not necessarily shocking, since most digital codes don’t tend to be redeemable forever, but it is odd that Japan is the only region with this sort of stipulation thus far.<\/p>\n

170 days isn’t even that long, either! Here are some other things that are about as long as or last longer than six months:<\/p>\n