Massive Campaign to end Region Locking on Wii U and 3DS Underway

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BasilZero said:

BloodyRain said:
What reason does the big n have for region locking anyways?

Possibly the same reason why Atlus had the region lock on P4 Arena. To prevent people from ordering/buying a game online or off of another region before their own region's release.

Corporations believing it would affect overall sales numbers altogether if it s permitted. Although its kind of dumb....cause in the end overall WW sales is where it matters lol.

I would sign this cause if they take off region lock I could order BD from EU instead of waiting a couple of months in 2014 for the NA release >.>.

But I dont want to input my address since it seems to be required >.>.

Not really, revenue is what matters and that's the reason for region locking.

It usually takes a while for a Japanese game (but also vice versa) to come to Europe and/or the US. Now they could buy the Jap. version for a budget price before the game is even available in their region, which means that they probably won't support the localized version and that's where the publisher would lose money.

I bet the majority of the mainland European users on VGC have bought one or buy regularly their games from the UK, because they are cheaper than in their own country. Now luckily the UK and the rest of Europe belong to the same region, but in reality publishers are kind of losing some money due to this.