Matthew on 17/8/2011 at 16:52
Quote Posted by Warren's Spectre
Edit: Also does this mean that UK editions can't be used in Ireland?
Well, here's the thing: as you may know and according to various Irish-based posters today, the Irish shops usually just get stock from their British arm, being mostly just branches of the big chains like Gamestop. It's therefore possible that the games SOLD IN DUBLIN will be UK versions - and potentially unusable to the buyers. :p
van HellSing on 17/8/2011 at 16:54
All this, thanks to the magic of Steam :cool:
Matthew on 17/8/2011 at 17:21
Steamworks, in fact, not Steam itself. It's a publisher decision to actually activate that feature of course, so the blame lies at Square Enix's feet once again.
van HellSing on 17/8/2011 at 17:32
Sure, it's Squeenix' decision to use the lock, but it's Steamworks which even provides such an option in the first place.
Also, I can't help but take offense at Poland being lumped with Russia.
Matthew on 17/8/2011 at 17:45
Eh, it's not like the other online stores aren't doing the same; Impulse definitely is and I think Direct2Drive is partially restricting it also. Only GreenManGaming is not (and G2Play, but from what I hear what you get there is a code scanned in from an Asian retail game?).
Melan on 17/8/2011 at 17:52
Quote Posted by van HellSing
All this, thanks to the magic of Steam :cool:
Back in the hazy days of Way Back Then, I said on TTLG Steam would be used to drastically restrict customer rights. I recall I was called a reactionary by multiple posters here. Well, who is laughing now?
Not me, unfortunately.van HellSing on 17/8/2011 at 17:54
The problem is, you can buy the game from one source or another, but you can't get it without Steamworks.
Matthew on 17/8/2011 at 18:02
I reckon if we didn't have Steamworks they'd still find a way to IP block us based on country (hello, Blizzard)
Renzatic on 17/8/2011 at 19:39
Without Steam, they'd probably have some overly complicated phone home system that verifies the regional code of the game against your IP on install or some other such nonsense.
The whole thing just reeks of dumb. Near unfathomable socioeconomic reasoning aside, I've always assumed that a sale is a sale, no matter where it comes from. Other than a company wanting to have absolute control over their IP to the point of anal retentive ridiculousness, there are zero reasons to bar any country from any version of the game based on location.
Zooey on 17/8/2011 at 19:59
IF you'll take the time to read the RPS article linked in the first post, which shines a light on Square Enix' hypocritical business practices, you'll see the reason.
