EU voted to end Geo Blocking!!

[DonFerrari]

Ka-pi96 said:

DonFerrari said:

And why should a legislation exist to allow you to change country on PSN? Even more when if you just want to access a different store you may just create an account over there, buy, download and use on your main acc.

There shouldn't be. It should just be allowed by default. Microsoft allow you to change country on an XBL account without restriction. Steam let you change the country of your account (with the caveat that you need an IP address for the country you're changing to). So why don't Sony? Because they're dicks, that's why!

Yes it can be because they are dicks, still its their service and they may do it and you as customer not accepting it not sign-in.

Ka-pi96 said:

CosmicSex said:

Please help me here.  Didn't the UK leave the EU?  Wouldn't that make it difficult to cash in on UK cheaper prices?  Or would this apply to all customers?

The UK hasn't left the EU. They've started procedures to do so, but as of now they are still an EU member.

 

As for the topic, while a good idea this doesn't even come close to as good as I'd like it to be. Some things not counting sucks, but it also being only for EU countries kind of makes it pointless. Would love to see a time when European/American/Japanese etc PSN, Netflix, itunes and whatnot all have the same content available for everyone at the same price regardless of region. Maybe one day.

Lot of different licenses and regulations also it make the cost lower when they limit content to regions.

When I log into crunchyroll in house using language as PT-BR I have some content available while on EN there is some different, when I log in the company (connection passthrough USA, so I have "geolocation" from there) the licenses changes and some content that I had in PT-BR won't show unless I put in EN while there will be more content in EN... so it is a lot convoluted.