Borderlands 2 Russian Edition is Region-Locked
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Yes I get that - Russian version can only play with Russian versions. That's not a case of the game being notably inferior is it? - It's not like Russia is somehow getting a degraded product, it's more that it's limited... Limits which could be addressed in future.blackrave said:
If I have 2 iPads, and one is Wifi, and one is 3G - is the Wifi one notably inferior?
Know what I mean? - I think it's a bad choice of words is all.
Thats precisely the reason why the Russian version is region locked is because of thieves like you.Arina Love said:
Nope, majority of people will not pirate if they receive quality service, people will pirate because they get fucked with.albino boo said:
and where in my post i wrote that i will pirate this game. learn to read honey.
No, because multiplayer is integral part of Borderlands2surg3n said:
My brother lives in Norway, so if I ever wanted to play Borderlands2 with him, I couldn't
That's makes it inferior
Also the horrors of russian translation also make this game inferior (I don't think you have any slightest idea of how bad localizations usually are)
While you call it limitation, it actually makes product inferior, because localized version is worse than international one.
I would assume management looked at a small-scale map of Eastern Europe and thought "eh, that's all former Soviet Russia anyway, it'll be fine".Jandau said:
I would describe a badly localised copy as "hugely inferior", actually. Bad translations are a thing of horror, while good translations are merely annoying as hell. Personally I probably wouldn't even play it if my only choice was a localised Dutch version - and that's before realising that for Eastern European countries it's not even their own language.surg3n said:
And that's not even mentioning the second aspect: restricted multiplayer. Russians have friends too, you know. Some of them even online, and in other countries. Just like, well, every single one of us.
They REALLY slipped up on this. Hopefully my boxed copy will not get locked with the Russian language.
This just gives me reasons NOT to learn russian in my school. This is the game I promissed not to pirate, and I will uphold that promise. Modders better find a way past this.
This just gives me reasons NOT to learn russian in my school. This is the game I promissed not to pirate, and I will uphold that promise. Modders better find a way past this.
That's...really hopeless, I feel for the Russians. Having seen first hand what region locking can do to a game (Armored Core V), I think it's a practice that belongs where other things you don't like belong, and can see no reason apart from profit and possibly lag to do it.
Of course all bank robbers are poeple who didn't get an overdraft and all burglars are people complaining about the noise. If you are not happy with customer service you don't get to steal from a bank or shop, why its ok to steal a game? If you don't like don't buy it, anything else means your just a plain old simple thief.Arina Love said:
Ahem... having been born in a Russian speaking part of Ukraine that half of the Ukrainian population won't have any problems understanding the game(for the most part, as the Russian that was spoken there, was a mix of the two languages), and i can bet that the same goes for any other part of the countries that are in close proximity to Russia(i hear Estonia have a nice amount of Russian speakers), so that should not be a problem, for the most part, in single player...
What i see as the problem here is the fact that MP is not global! i'd be pissed too if i could not play with a friend, who is half way around the world!
What i see as the problem here is the fact that MP is not global! i'd be pissed too if i could not play with a friend, who is half way around the world!
Multiplayer is not the only problem with having a separate version.surg3n said:
You will also require your own versions of patches and DLC, which are not produced by Gearbox (they didn't even know the russian version even existed until recently), so they will likely be published with a delay, if ever.
Sometimes, the delay is fairly significant. For instance, the russian-version-compatible Lonesome Road DLC for Fallout New Vegas was released only recently, with the release of Ultimate Edition. All the other DLCs were also completely unavailable for purchase for significant amount of time. Duke Nukem Forever DLC is still not available. Not that anyone cares, really, but it's still not an option - and it was published by 2K, too.
Kellogs Fried Chickn said:
OT: Sounds like a bit of behind-the-scenes-shenanigans went on. Releasing a software product to multiple countries can be a tale of sadness and woe (based on my experience anyway). Whatever the complication was with Russia, this doesn't sound like an especially good way of dealing with it. Hopefully it'll get sorted out a little bit better once the release madness is done.Grey Carter said:
At least they immediately offered refunds and have already started working on a fix instead of stumbling over their own feet in deciding how to resolve a situation. I commend them for their speedy response and willingness to offer a refund so quickly while finding a fix instead of saying ohhh wellllllll sucks for them
I wish they would region lock Brazil and Korea too, so many freaking trolls. The rest of the world can play well together and hell, the Japanese are some of the most cooperative and helpful players I've ever played with but Brazilians and Koreans intentionally try to ruin the game and I've had enough.Bradley Tibbetts said:
It's not an pseudo-Russian IP issue. All those countries are included in the list of countries that receive the alternate restricted version, it's not just Russia or Russian IPs.MetalMagpie said:
The full list of RU-version-restricted countries, straight from Steam:
RU AM AZ BY GE KZ KG MD TJ TM UZ UA LV LT EE
If your IP is in Russia or Latvia or Estonia or Ukraine or Uzbekistan, etc., you get the restricted version. In all those countries the official distributor is 1C, so they probably just said that 1C gets THIS version and no other, so all those countries are getting it.