Now before I start hearing about the "pros" of region locking, I'm going to tell you right now to fuck right off. With that out of the way let us talk about how region locking is a load of ass. So as you may or may not have figured out I am currently living in Japan and if you have been following my story of all my games being stolen, you may also know that my family now live in Sweden after moving from the UK.
So after spending so much time living in the UK and then suddenly moving about everywhere, I have a lot of PAL video games. Now in terms of games I own, everything Sony related I have no problem with. The PS3, PSP and the Vita (which I don't own yet) are all region free, so all the moving around basically had no effect on that, same for the DS. But my Xbox and Wii games, I just flat out cannot play anymore because I've moved country, and THAT is bullshit. However, those games appear to have been stolen, so even if I was still in Europe I couldn't play them right now anyway.
That said, I own a 3DS, one that I bought in the UK, and this fucking thing is region locked too so I can't buy any games for this fucking thing because I'm living in Japan. I don't want to hear any crap about how region locking a system is good for business or some shit. Your average everyday gamer doesn't give two fucks about importing for cheaper prices (or knows how for that matter) and on top of that, companies are probably losing money by not allowing people like me to pay for games that aren't available to them in the country that they live in. Disregarding that point for a second, the DS was fucking region free so why did Nintendo suddenly feel the need to lock me out of their library of games just because I moved house? Assholes
Long story short, stop fucking region locking, the companies that don't region lock their stuff aren't exactly suffering for it, so you basically have no reason to fucking do it as far as I know.
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