How can something be in steady decline just today ? Also , its not in a steady decline . The decline has been highly variable . <| sep |> but wouldn ' t it make more at least from a business perspective sense for it to be locked forever so that it could never be played outside the region it belongs to ? No , chances are in those 3 months the game would go one sale for cheaper than its launch price in a cheap region like russia . Also , would you rather buy a cheap regionlocked game then wait 3 months before you can play it ? Language locking is way more effective , unless someone ' s willing to learn a new language just to play some games for cheap . Not to mention that most games aren ' t runlocked anyway , there are actually VERY FEW games that are runlocked in the first place .