STOP REGION BLOCKING

[cookieangal]

Nintendo has made it so that an europian 3DS/Wii U cannot play American/Japanese games. Its the same with the Americans, they cant play English/Japanese games. And now what i want to do now, is to spread the word. There is a petition going on at change.org so region blocking will be removed.
Im not trying to Advertise this, because i didnt even organise this petition.
Here is the link( if this doesnt work just google Petition stop region blocking 3ds)
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitio...n-blocking-make-the-3ds-and-wii-u-region-free

I know there is a way to play other regions games by Using a capture card or whatever, but there might be a risk of doing it.So im avoiding that

SPREAD THE WORD EVERYBODY
ONLY 3,980 MORE SUPPORTERS NEEDED!
WE CAN DO THIS!

 

[Imitation]

Bump!
Stop region blocking!

 

[Leopardfire]

I'm sure they have their reasons to region block. :x I don't think a petition will help.

 

[Imitation]

I'm sure they have their reasons to region block. :x I don't think a petition will help.

There is no valid reason to region block whatsoever.
If you read the petition it brings up many valid points for example
What if you move abroad and do not speak the local language?
Also it is another thing that is restricting Nintendo as well as the terrible link with the Youtube community
Xbox has made it so that you can upload clips from the console without having the "Xbox" Tag put on the side
Where as Nintendo with Mario kart 8
Sure you can upload clips from the game but we are making profits for every single video that comes from the game.
To end this Microsoft and Sony both are region free and both allow content to be uploaded to Youtube hassle free and Nintendo does not...

 

[mattyboo1]

Yes I agree! Stop region Blocking!

 

[Jawile]

Sorry, but I don't think a change.org petition will get Nintendo to do anything.

 

[ryan88]

Sorry, but I don't think a change.org petition will get Nintendo to do anything.

They will burst into Nintendo's doors and demand them to stop region blocking! I'm signing it! Americans wand to play games using Japanese too!

 

[Mercedes]

I don't care.

 

[Jawile]

I don't care.

then why post

 

[ryan88]

I don't care.

Wow. So you don't care about the 30,000 people who do?

 

[Jawile]

anyways really what's a change.org petition going to do?

 

[Riiiiptide]

Just as people said above, an online petition won't change a thing. This isn't something that just Nintendo practices: it is a common practice in the humongous entertainment industry worldwide. You're going to need millions, maybe a billion, to change it. For example, have you noticed that your DVD player has a region lock? It is probably set to 1 for NA so you cannot generally play Asian (region 2) DVD's. Similarly, music downloads are restricted by country (iTunes store will not allow cross-region downloading.)

I am all for getting this changed: but with such an established standard by such a tremendous (both political and economical size) force in the entertainment industry, I honestly cannot see any way to get this to change. Unfortunately, the number of people impacted by this currently is too small. Maybe in the future when entertainment stuff (music/movies/video games) are more globalized.

 

[Draco]

hi there is infact a real reason for region blocking. Here is a reason. If i make a Game For US release that say shows Cow killing .

Well that would offend hindu people so US verison is blocked and rewrote. visea versa all over world.

as a result it is ment to not have people get mad over little stuff and it works see Rewrites ovf Bravely Default for reverse blocking. stuff is rewrote and blocked all time.

No one more then i would love to play JRPG's but what is ok in Japan may not be in Russia.

 

[Trent the Paladin]

I'm sure they have their reasons to region block. :x I don't think a petition will help.

Not really. Only reason to do so would be to prevent people from buying games that they can't understand and beg for refunds, but that's on the consumer's end.

That said to those of you questioning the petition, remember this is basically how Operation Rainfall started out: A petition to localize Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story, and one other game whose name is evading me at the moment. So these do work with the right amount of pressure. And when you can do that with other platforms like anything on Playstation, it does show people are interested in not having region locked games.

 

[Bowie]

Did it ever occur to you lot that it takes time to modify games for different countries? Depending on how big the games are, it takes a lot of time to make things relevant outside of Japan, as well as translate all of the text. And also, there are a lot of Nintendo games out there which have been translated by people outside of Nintendo, making an official English release unnecessary.

 

[Shirohibiki]

ive signed plenty a petition in the past, but im never sure how much good they do.

as for the topic at hand, the only reason i can really think of making sense is what draco said. they have to redo like half of the models in world of warcraft for china, who just got cataclysm i think?? because they cant have bones showing or graves. so yeah idk

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and what i said also coincides with bowie's post. theres a reason china just got cataclysm while US/EU is getting warlords of draenor, the 5th(6th? omg) expansion. censoring all of that ****+translating takes sO MUCH TIME,,,,

 

[Draco]

ive signed plenty a petition in the past, but im never sure how much good they do.

as for the topic at hand, the only reason i can really think of making sense is what draco said. they have to redo like half of the models in world of warcraft for china, who just got cataclysm i think?? because they cant have bones showing or graves. so yeah idk

perfect point i remember that. Isshue was Graves and killing of pandas . last patch of MOP Chen Stormstout is attacked and killed China had isshue with this ( pandas are there Bald Eagles) so they rewrote whole thing as a result it held up patch for 4extra weeks this is why we have region blocking

 

[Mercedes]

Wow. So you don't care about the 30,000 people who do?

No I don't. It's not gonna happen, same with having a choice of "other" for a gender option.
That's how slim of a chance this will happen, it does not matter, plus if you really want that game from another contery, but the 3ds from said contery and buy said game, point blank pierod. I mean I understand someone would think you are "making a change" no you are not, and crap like this annoys me, I am sorry if I offended anyone, but I am just stating the truth.

 

[CR33P]

region blocking exists for a reason, you know. you are really naive to believe that nintendo would care about a petition for this.

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No I don't. It's not gonna happen, same with having a choice of "other" for a gender option.
That's how slim of a chance this will happen, it does not matter, plus if you really want that game from another contery, but the 3ds from said contery and buy said game, point blank pierod. I mean I understand someone would think you are "making a change" no you are not, and crap like this annoys me, I am sorry if I offended anyone, but I am just stating the truth.

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[Mercedes]

region blocking exists for a reason, you know. you are really naive to believe that nintendo would care about a petition for this.

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region blocking exists for a reason, you know. you are really naive to believe that nintendo would care about a petition for this.

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