1st August 2006, 1:54 PM
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3152572
Read that and the entire opinion it links to on that guy's b-log (what does the "b" stand for anyway?).
The three reasons people would mod their system are:
piracy
importing
custom applications
(actually, there's a 4th, backup games in the event the original has been destroyed)
Piracy, no one can really come up with a legitimate reason for why they should be allowed to STEAL something. "I can't afford it but I want it anyway" just isn't a very compelling excuse. "It just isn't being sold any more" is a little more compelling, but look harder. There are used copies. "It's a last gen title that is impossible to find" is more compelling still, but that has nothing to do with modding TODAY'S systems.
Importing I fully agree with, but wow this guy doesn't. His excuse? "We think a lot about what games to release in a region." So? I'm sure you did, and I can understand that, but at the end of the day if you decided not to release the game over here, that's not a national edict. I can still legally obtain the game, and you are STILL getting money from the sale. What's the problem? I seriously can't see his argument. No one suggested they didn't "think about it", it's just that no one CARES. Do you actually expect us to import a Japanese system to compliment it? You say yourself that each system sold is a loss to you, so obviously that would hurt BOTH of us. Your argument seems to be, in it's entirety "we don't want these people here playing that game so they shouldn't be wanting to play that game". Yeesh, you'd think they would actually try to work within the importing community. They might find out that they made a mistake not releasing a game in some territory after all and be able to increase profits. Sorry, that's a stupid reason to say importing is "bad".
Custom software, he actually seems to like the idea of except it has the potential to hurt sales of games they liscense themselves. Saying "and we sell those systems at a loss" is another point.
Alright, but if we want the game, we'll buy it. Getting content FOR FREE isn't breaking our wallets and if we are just plain more INTERESTED in whatever custom games someone might design, what does that tell you about your games? Get over it. It's the risk you take when you go with that business model. Look at it this way, you are still well within your rights to ban all modders from XBox Live. I myself have modded my PSP into a custom designed awesome that can do everything I need it to do, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Sony has nothing to fear because I have yet to play illegal PS1 games on it (and that would be hard anyway due to lack of buttons and one stick, also the massive memory storage issue). I'm still buying Loco Roco though, I can just do that and more now.
Read that and the entire opinion it links to on that guy's b-log (what does the "b" stand for anyway?).
The three reasons people would mod their system are:
piracy
importing
custom applications
(actually, there's a 4th, backup games in the event the original has been destroyed)
Piracy, no one can really come up with a legitimate reason for why they should be allowed to STEAL something. "I can't afford it but I want it anyway" just isn't a very compelling excuse. "It just isn't being sold any more" is a little more compelling, but look harder. There are used copies. "It's a last gen title that is impossible to find" is more compelling still, but that has nothing to do with modding TODAY'S systems.
Importing I fully agree with, but wow this guy doesn't. His excuse? "We think a lot about what games to release in a region." So? I'm sure you did, and I can understand that, but at the end of the day if you decided not to release the game over here, that's not a national edict. I can still legally obtain the game, and you are STILL getting money from the sale. What's the problem? I seriously can't see his argument. No one suggested they didn't "think about it", it's just that no one CARES. Do you actually expect us to import a Japanese system to compliment it? You say yourself that each system sold is a loss to you, so obviously that would hurt BOTH of us. Your argument seems to be, in it's entirety "we don't want these people here playing that game so they shouldn't be wanting to play that game". Yeesh, you'd think they would actually try to work within the importing community. They might find out that they made a mistake not releasing a game in some territory after all and be able to increase profits. Sorry, that's a stupid reason to say importing is "bad".
Custom software, he actually seems to like the idea of except it has the potential to hurt sales of games they liscense themselves. Saying "and we sell those systems at a loss" is another point.
Alright, but if we want the game, we'll buy it. Getting content FOR FREE isn't breaking our wallets and if we are just plain more INTERESTED in whatever custom games someone might design, what does that tell you about your games? Get over it. It's the risk you take when you go with that business model. Look at it this way, you are still well within your rights to ban all modders from XBox Live. I myself have modded my PSP into a custom designed awesome that can do everything I need it to do, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Sony has nothing to fear because I have yet to play illegal PS1 games on it (and that would be hard anyway due to lack of buttons and one stick, also the massive memory storage issue). I'm still buying Loco Roco though, I can just do that and more now.
