Comments on: Region Locking http://naomi.thewafflehouse.net/blog/2010/01/01/region-locking/ 「僕と契約して、魔法少女になってよ！」 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:45:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Amoirsp http://naomi.thewafflehouse.net/blog/2010/01/01/region-locking/comment-page-1/#comment-1571 Amoirsp Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:33:24 +0000 http://naomi.thewafflehouse.net/blog/?p=845#comment-1571 Gah and here I was already hit by region locking with my Taiwan 360, and I hardly even delved the blockade. Gah and here I was already hit by region locking with my Taiwan 360, and I hardly even delved the blockade.

]]> By: random.idot http://naomi.thewafflehouse.net/blog/2010/01/01/region-locking/comment-page-1/#comment-1528 random.idot Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:43:45 +0000 http://naomi.thewafflehouse.net/blog/?p=845#comment-1528 well, one of the strange regional issues I got recently was with the PC game "The Void". Even if you get the digital copy from a store that is willing to sale it to you, the *activation* code won't work if you are in the wrong region for that code! So they will take your money, give you an activations code that won't work, then ask you to contact the company so that *they* can activate it for you! It toke me the total of 3 days to activate the game that I bought (something I wouldn't have had to go through had I pirated the bloody thing). any way, I understand that need for regional locks when it comes to price control. But why block the sale of an item that does *NOT* exist in the other region? What about the regions that have no distributors (south america, africa and the middle east), why block the sale to *those* regions? I understand the price control.... but when the item/distributors don't exist, why lock the region out? (especially for *digital* goods?) well, one of the strange regional issues I got recently was with the PC game “The Void”. Even if you get the digital copy from a store that is willing to sale it to you, the *activation* code won’t work if you are in the wrong region for that code!

So they will take your money, give you an activations code that won’t work, then ask you to contact the company so that *they* can activate it for you! It toke me the total of 3 days to activate the game that I bought (something I wouldn’t have had to go through had I pirated the bloody thing).

any way, I understand that need for regional locks when it comes to price control. But why block the sale of an item that does *NOT* exist in the other region? What about the regions that have no distributors (south america, africa and the middle east), why block the sale to *those* regions? I understand the price control…. but when the item/distributors don’t exist, why lock the region out? (especially for *digital* goods?)

]]> By: Andrew http://naomi.thewafflehouse.net/blog/2010/01/01/region-locking/comment-page-1/#comment-1523 Andrew Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:53:29 +0000 http://naomi.thewafflehouse.net/blog/?p=845#comment-1523 Sigh, I got thorugh the psn region loking by making foreign accounts, but otherwise I am really disappointed on the region lock for ninntendo and microsoft. xbox i can understand, they've always been bastards, but nintendo, man that was a disappointment. At least the DS is region free =/ Sigh, I got thorugh the psn region loking by making foreign accounts, but otherwise I am really disappointed on the region lock for ninntendo and microsoft. xbox i can understand, they’ve always been bastards, but nintendo, man that was a disappointment. At least the DS is region free =/

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