OK, I want to play Dream Of Mirror Online or Rumble Fighter, and it looks like it might happen again with me playing Mabinogi.

What I'm talking about is the games company declaring, in the small print, 'Due to licensing issues, this game is for North America only'.

Now, I can understand some licensing issues might occur, and would accept them if there were European servers to go to.

Now, DOMO does have a European service, but Rumble Fighter and Mabinogi don't, and it seems to be the in thing now to slap a IP blocker into the code of the Open Beta.
Come on... Since when was it illegal for you to play a game?
Now, I agree that, if I wanted to play Monster Farm Online. I'd find it difficult, but hell, Come on America... Stop being the land of the oppressed and the home of the cowardly...

I am happy to be from the UK...
But, just like with anime, some stellar games are passing me by.
World Of Warcraft I'd love to play with my friend from Canada, but that has a version of IP blocking.
Guild Wars I do, and enjoy it when I can.
RF Online, well, I do play that with him.
My friend will be visiting the UK in the next few weeks...
I set him a challenge to play Mabinogi from launch to character maturation... He might just fail it, not because he's a bad player, but because now games have a new law in their code...
The one which says segregation of gamers is perfectly fine.

Publishers, you get those huge user numbers not through cutting the world up into blocks of IP addressses.
You get them by saying 'Here's our game... Play it.'
Stop blocking off licenses to make them seem even more special... It just makes them harder to sell.