Amisbro Rants: Region Lock THIS!

A heartfelt and passionate rant about the business of region locking the retro systems and why in the God's name it should have NEVER been done in the first place!

I STRONGLY encourage you if you watch this vid to not just rate it but leave text comments, video responses, PMs or even e-mails(amisbro@gmail.com) to me and I WILL read them and respond to them!

let's get the conversation going people!

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Amisbro Rants
• White Knight Chronicles
• Super Famicom
• Sega Genesis
• Playstation
• Final Fantasy VII
• Final Fantasy XIII

[NostalgiaKing]

I absolutely hate the idea of region locking. It's just stupid. Do they even realize how small of a minority importers are? Even with the advent of the internet giving people the means to more easily import stuff, it's still an insignifigant number compared to domestic sales. I just don't see their logic. Wasn't Nintendo's region locking system originally supposed to combat bootlegs and stuff anyway? I dunno.

Great video! I'll try to do a video response to this in a few days.

[Amisbro]

It was but the funny part is that the SNES' "lockout" was strictly two tabs in the back of the cartridge slot but the problem that I don't think Nintendo realized is that it just takes a pair of pliers to snap off the tabs and then you can play your SFC games.

Believe it or not a lot of people are doing import games. The store that I got my first game from has been around for over a decade or so you know there's a market for those games.

Here's hoping we can get a good discussion on the topic

[conradojavier]

Region Lock is Propably THE Reason why FPS gets all the Popularity.

[conradojavier]

Region Lock Sucks.

[ryu855]

Amisbro replay to me okay and what is your psn name id love to chat more about this

[ryu855]

um I think I know why they have lock outs on games its coz we are differnt from the japanese i like japan a lot and even for some of there stuff is weird? And they take that chanes like bandpersto there a smile gaming corp who cant risk 600000 capys of a game to fron land who may not like the game.

[xxxrandomjamezxxx]

lol loved the vid

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have a nice day and keep doiing what your doing.

rock on!

[majinpowers]

The problem with this is once you have a console that's been modded you can just burn games and don't even have to buy the imports, but I have to add I don't look down on this too badly because if the game company didn't release the game to be played in your region then there not loosing those sales anyways.

[majinpowers]

I hate region locking, I think its something that should be done away with and love that the PlayStation 3 is region free on it's games. I end up modding consoles to be able to play imports if its easy enough or buy a premodded console.