Pretty sure you have to live there near SE NA though.
Los Angeles, yup.
As for the requirements, in US it might be very low but in EU you have to be perfectly bilingual. While it's not hard, it still ask you to have some kind of skills.
If the dagger wasn't working, they would have patched it or at least talked about it. As much as they fail pretty often, they at least do that.
Maybe the people who "tested" this dagger didn't test it correctly. After all, it's an effect that is new and to which we are not used, people might have jumped the gun too fast.
Before yelling that something is broken, take a new look at yourself, you might have overlooked something.