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@patman99: Thank you for the feedback, you brought up some very good points, and I completely agree with you. I'll be sure to take this into account for my next survey. I didn't really think of utilising Likert scales, but now that you mention it I do feel that would have been a far better option. I was trying my best to reduce the amount of text boxes as I know from experience they can be daunting and feel more like you're writing an essay, but I didn't think much past multiple choice questions.

Well, I came here to get help with a survey a while back and the amazing Giant Bomb community provided tremendously. I am now in my final year and writing my dissertation, and so I ask you all for your help again.

I've chosen gaming as the subject area, of course, which is why I'm here. Due to a ridiculous amount of red tape that my university is forcing onto all of us, I must ask that only those over 18 participate. I won't divulge my exact topic here so as not to influence results, but thank you so much to anyone who can help me out, I really do appreciate it!

Please find the survey here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Mn82VMNxU6j3_72QdsK_55udq66dEwzQSn-z9J4NE94/viewform

Perhaps somewhat harsh, mainly due to my recent runnings-in with Nintendo's idiocy first-hand with the aforementioned 3DS stuff.

My girlfriend got me a 3DS XL for Christmas, I was ecstatic, as you can imagine, I've wanted one for ages with all the amazing games it has, and the backwards-compatibility so I can play all the amazing regular DS games I missed on those gorgeous new big screens. I'm from the UK and she's American, she got me the limited edition year of Luigi NTSC 3DS with M&L Dream Team pack-in, and I love it, the game is amazing, and I love the M&L design.

I was prepared to import all my games and buy all of them on the Eshop, I did my research on that particular subject and that's fine, I got a $50 eshop card and grabbed Mario Kart 7, for both the online play and the fact I really wanted to play it with my friends who have owned 3DSes for years.

So I go to their house, start it up, ecstatic to finally play a new handheld Mario Kart after playing the crap out of Mario Kart DS back when it came out. They started up their download play and...Nothing.

Disappointed, I go home to look this up and find out that not only did the almighty Nintendo region lock the console, which is stupid on its own, they region locked multiplayer functionality. In other words, unless the game specifically supports it, I can not play a single multiplayer 3DS game with them. Even if they both got a copy of MK7, we'd only be able to play it online, because a HANDHELD game doesn't support cross-region local multiplayer. The only game I've seen that actually does is Pokemon X/Y.

So if I had a PAL 3DS and tried to play it with my girlfriend and anyone else when I went to America, again, I wouldn't be able to, I'd have to own multiple 3DSes and multiple copies of the same damn games just to be able to play games with everyone I want to.

It's pathetic, and sums up modern Nintendo in a nutshell, they've gone too far, they need to be put down, even Microsoft doesn't region lock. I was incredibly happy when I saw this news, I was eagerly awaiting the day when their business practices as of late would come back to bite them in the ass.

Nintendo are, at least currently and have been for a good few years now, a moronic company that make dumb as hell decisions.

Making a console that's a generation behind in technology, making it harder for third parties to develop for them, yet costing as much as an ACTUAL next-gen system: Check

Making a region locked HANDHELD system that's also region locked for most multiplayer games, making the concept of a handheld worthless: Check

I hope Nintendo crash and burn soon to be honest and go the way of Sega, the fact they've managed to survive this long after the Gamecube is almost purely due to the Wii doing far better than anyone could have guessed. I love my 3DS purely due to the games, but not being able to play anything 3DS-related with my friends due to the fact my 3DS is from a different region riles me up to no end. Especially when the original DS handled things so well.

So yeah, down with Nintendo, I love their games, I swear I do, I'd be incredibly happy to play their games, on Sony's and Microsoft's machines that is. They've gotten far too big-headed for their own good, I'm sick of their constantly segregating gamers in general with their piss-poor decisions. Developers are not going to want to develop solely for the Wii U, when they can make more than double their money making a single game that can be played on both XB1 and PS4. And if they have no games, who's going to want their console? The only reason the Wii did so well is because of how dirt cheap it was and the novelty factor, the Wii U doesn't have that, we see touch screens every day and the price they're charging was and still is horrendous.

Rant over, I really do hate modern Nintendo.

Maybe us folk in Europe might get some equal treatment now and stop those morons focusing so damn hard on North America and nothing but North America when it comes to territories outside Japan. I hated Atlus to no end for all the shit they put us through, (durr, hey guys, let's release Persona 4 Arena and make it region locked because we're assholes then outsource and release it to Europe almost a year later) Let's see if Sega can finally knock some business sense into that useless company.

@alibson said:

Giant Bomb is my number one stop for extremist feminist propaganda.

Yup, it's a good thing they still have the great quick looks and a couple staff members that don't get worked over this stupid bullshit or I'd have jumped ship a LONG time ago

The original article shouldn't have been written, this stupid-ass follow up even moreso

Please piss off with this 16-bit shit, the original had a little something called an art style, why ruin it with more of this wannabe retro bullshit that indie games already overuse FAR too much?

No doubt the great soundtrack is probably going to be replaced with frigging chiptunes as well.

31. Don't try ressing people too close to enemy bases -_-

@legendlexicon: Because it's always treated as a far bigger deal when it's America getting shafted for once, it's like me going through a field and getting my foot, my other leg, my hand and half my head blown off and just having to accept it while some other guy manages to lose his toe and suddenly it's a huge issue. They're not mutually exclusive, both cases are bad, I just hate how when Americans get the short end of the stick once in a blue moon it becomes a huge issue while Europeans are still getting treated as second-rate citizens on a daily basis

@yoshimitz707: I agree, there probably was no reason for this, but there are no reasons why stuff like that happens here either, we have to suffer because Atlus are too stupid and lazy to begin publishing their translated games in Europe as opposed to wait for it to get outsourced by someone who can bother, for example. I haven't even named half of the injustices we in Europe face constantly in the gaming and general media front, yet we never complain when they happen, because the sad fact of the matter is we're just used to it now.