Region locking doesn't really affect me, because I can't think of any game (in English) that went to other countries but not America. My problem is more along the lines of Japanese companies not localizing awesome games.
you would change your tone if you had to live in the UK, we get games much later than anywhere else in the world, and we pay more for our games than anywhere else in the world, americans don't realize that because they are not affected by it.
a good example is scribblenauts unlimited, you got the game on nov 13 2012, we are still waiting for a release date but I doubt we will be getting one soon, if it wasn't for region locking I would have imported an American copy, just like I had to import nintendogs ds when that was delayed in the uk, and just like I had to import animal crossing gc from america because they took almost 2 years to come out in the uk.
If it wasn't for datel and their freeloader I would have never been able to play animal crossing gc, it's a shame they never released a freeloader for the wii u because stupid nintendo and their firmware updates would just block it.
Kinda hard to pirate games when the hacking scene constantly gets cock blocked by Nintendo and very little has actually been done to hack the 3DS anyway that is actually worth investing in.
yeah the age of the firmware updates that do nothing
if current gen consoles never had firmware updates we would have all sorts like freeloader, modchips like the wii and prob even action replay, that is never going to happen again, which is sad really, I just hope the scene tries to remove the region locking from the wii u I'm getting fed up of playing the waiting game from nintendo, I mean come on why region lock a handheld console which you are supposed to take everywhere with you including travelling? original gameboy was region free, gba and original ds was region free, why change now? Nintendo obviously want more control of the software market (ie money)
