The video game industry has two main threats to it right now: used games, and pirating. In regards to used games, when you go to Gamestop and you purchase a game used, do you know who gets 100% of the profit off that game? Gamestop. Those who actually produced the game get absolutely nothing. Put that in with the fact that Gamestop still gets a fraction of the sales off new games, and all of the people that pirate . . .
Video game companies aren't like musicians. They don't have live shows to get large sums of money from. All they have are new game sales. Considering how expensive it is just to make one game, not to mention localize it, and you have industries that are going downhill fast. Namco-Bandai is EXTREMELY close to going under. The money-hungry companies like Activision are snapping up companies left and right, but other companies like Nintendo and Sony are flipping out and either region-locking everything with threat of bricking or filing lawsuits against everyone they can find. Why? Because they don't want to go under. They don't want to be like Namco-Bandai, who laid off thousands of workers because they couldn't afford to pay them anymore, nor do they want to be like Sega, who pretty much lost everything way back when.
I'm sorry OP, but I can't feel bad for you. I agree that the region-locking on the 3DS sucks because I really want to play the Tales of the Abyss port, but I can't support video game piracy at all. Not when video games mean so much to me, not when that's an industry I want to go into (in the localization department), and not when the industry itself is hurting so much right now from the likes of Gamestop and piracy.
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Video game companies aren't like musicians. They don't have live shows to get large sums of money from. All they have are new game sales. Considering how expensive it is just to make one game, not to mention localize it, and you have industries that are going downhill fast. Namco-Bandai is EXTREMELY close to going under. The money-hungry companies like Activision are snapping up companies left and right, but other companies like Nintendo and Sony are flipping out and either region-locking everything with threat of bricking or filing lawsuits against everyone they can find. Why? Because they don't want to go under. They don't want to be like Namco-Bandai, who laid off thousands of workers because they couldn't afford to pay them anymore, nor do they want to be like Sega, who pretty much lost everything way back when.
I'm sorry OP, but I can't feel bad for you. I agree that the region-locking on the 3DS sucks because I really want to play the Tales of the Abyss port, but I can't support video game piracy at all. Not when video games mean so much to me, not when that's an industry I want to go into (in the localization department), and not when the industry itself is hurting so much right now from the likes of Gamestop and piracy.