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Watch out: Valve has introduced regional restrictions to some gift purchases from Steam
Previously they stated, that any game (gift) which was bought in Steam Store will not have any regional restrictions to add to the library and play (it is well known that CD keys usually have various restrictions on activation and playing). Actually steam support still claims that gifts will not be region locked, but it is not true, there were several solid confirmations that restrictions exist.
Right now you should be aware of following gifts.
Max payne 3 Pre order 1 (CIS) – sub id 14524 The gift has following parameter in its cdr record:
onlyallowrunincountries = AM AZ BY GE KZ KG MD RU TJ TM UZ UA LV LT EE
which means it can not be runned outside CIS countries
Max payne 3 Pre order 1 (RU) – sub id 14623 with parameter
onlyallowrunincountries = RU
which means that it will be playable only inside Russia.
Also note, that there is another gift with the same name (Max payne 3 Pre order 1 (RU)), but different subscription id ([4] 14100). It is not locked, but Max Payne 1 & 2 form this gift will contain russian language pack ONLY. It was available to purchase in Russia till 12 of May. From this moment only restricted version (sub 14524) is available for Russians.
Other region locked gifts:
- Confrontation Russian (sub id 13915) (playable only in Russia)
- Ridge Racer Unbounded (RU) (sub id 13946) (playable only in Russia and CIS countries)
- The Witcher 2 (RU) (sub id 13944) (playable only in Russia and CIS countries). Note, that there is another gift with the same name and different sub id without any restrictions. It was available to buy in Russia and CIS till 27 of March.
Source: reddit
NOT cool Valve/publishers.
EA to disable purchased copies of Rock Band on iOS
While the recent news about the DLC outage finally ending for all users, it looks like another form of Rock Band may be coming to a more permanent end in the near future. Rock Band iOS app will “no longer be playable” after May 31st, according to an in-game pop up message when loading the app (see below).
Despite the impending fate of the app, there are no indications that a similar situation will be occurring with the more recent Rock Band Reloaded app.
They probably ran out of licensing time for some of the songs and had to disabled the app. This sucks hard though.
Source: reddit
Update:
WTF?
Mass Effect 3 Protesters Sending Cupcakes to Bioware
At first, fans disappointed with ending of Mass Effect 3 tried to rally supporters to their cause by raising money for the charity Child’s Play, which helps get entertainment to sick kids in hospitals. But last week, Retake Mass Effect and Child’s Play parted ways, with the charity becoming concerned that their platform was becoming associated with a cause other than their own. Without that option, fans started to get creative.
Some fans are continuing the charity drives, and decided instead to try and raise money for “Kids Need to Read,” an organization that gets some nerd cred by being co-founded with Firefly and Castle’s Nathan Fillion.
Others got creative, deciding that the best way to make themselves heard may be by wooing Bioware itself, and what better way to do that than with cupcakes?
Yesterday, user LoganKey, first name Sam, posted a scheme to send 402 cupcakes to the Bioware studios in Canada. He raised the $1005 he needed in under an hour.
“We’ve done orders of this size before, but never with this kind of, you know, drama,” said Dale Temple, owner of the Edmonton, Alberta-area bakery Fuss Cupcakes, who will be filling the order. “He [Sam] was very polite, knew what he wanted… He called me before he had raised the money, you know, just with an idea, and within an hour he had called already.”
The idea is that the cupcakes would somehow communicate the notion of lack of choice in the endings to Mass Effect – a tall order for a pastry, no doubt. Proposed messages for the boxes include:
- “No matter what color you choose, they all taste the same”;
- “No matter what color you choose, it’s all vanilla ;-D”
- “We rage because we love”
The cupcakes themselves will be a mix of red, blue and green for the “different” endings of Mass Effect 3.
Source: Forbes
Is Valve turning into EA in terms of banning?
Interesting info was posted on reddit today, according to one of the users he got banned by Mike Blaszczak (Valve employee) on the official Steam Forums for a suggestion he made towards his behavior on the forums, here’s the full story:
I’ll try to keep this as short as possible. Someone posted a thread in the Steam forums asking for help with an issue related to a game they had bought, asking for a response from Valve.
As it happens, and as everyone knows, Valve only responds to these problems in the form of support tickets.
Nevertheless, Valve employee MikeBlaszczak responded with absolutely no information, but moved the thread to the General Steam Forum.. without even mentioning that the proper way to handle the problem is a support ticket.
When the thread got moved, I mentioned that the only way it would get taken care of was through a support ticket. And, I did make a remark about how the Valve employee should have mentioned as much.
What I didn’t expect was that I would get my post deleted and an instant -2 point infraction from Mr. Ballsack for stating such a thing.
I admit, I was a bit annoyed after that, and I made another reply pretty much restating what I had said before.. that the only way they will find help is if they submit a ticket. And I did restate my surprise that the official valve employee response (which is quite a rare thing on those forums) failed to mention the actual helpful solution.
Bam.
Banned.
Am I right or wrong in wanting to stand up for this? I think this is the very definition of unfair treatment no matter how you look at it, but at this point it seems like I have no choice but to let it go.
What would you do?
Well if the story is real, that’s some bullshit behavior right there. Anyway, stay tuned for more giveaways today on our Steam group!
TellTale Games damaged rented Jurassic Park Jeep..and won’t do anything about it!
Hi guys, see that car down there?
Some guy owns this Jeep and he decided to lend it to TellTale Games for the promotion of their new, Jurassic Park theme game.
Electronic (F)Arts know how to fuck it up!
Check this story out, I cannot believe how stupidly EA/Origin behaves:
From now on we’ll keep on posting every bad EA thing we find. This sums it up pretty well:
Source: Reddit and original image.
Fuck everything about this
Some gaming industry “professionals” claim that Steve Jobs and the iPhone had a bigger impact on videogames than Steam, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony combined.
According to a survey distributed to 1,000 videogame industry professionals, the iPhone has shaped videogames more than any other device or console, and Steve Jobs has shaped videogames more than any other human. The questionnaire was sent out to industry attendees of the London Games Conference, and asked participants to make a top five list of various professionals and hardware. Based on the answers received, the LGS ranked them according to the number of mentions.
The iPhone took top honors in the "products" category, earning an impressive 53% of voters claiming it belongs in the top five of all time, and 17% as number one. The full results were as follows:
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iPhone: 17%
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Wii: 7%
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Xbox Live: 3%
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PlayStation One: 3%
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Steam: 2%
As for people, Apple also took the throne, with Steve Jobs being mentioned in the top five list of 46% of survey takers, and as number one by 26%. Here’s how he stacked up against other industry giants:
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Steve Jobs 26%
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Gabe Newell 16%
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Shigeru Miyamoto 7%
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Tim Berners-Lee 4%
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Mark Zuckerberg 3%
Fuck everything about this.
Source: The Escapist
BF3 3 server files leaked, DICE says if you join modified server your entire Origin account will be banned
Battlefield 3 server files leaked, modded servers appeared in the game, meanwhile DICE responds by stating that joining one may result in your entire Origin account being banned, losing access to all games on it.
Source: reddit
Agreed to Origin/BF3 EULA? EA may collect and share your data!
It’s already known that Origin will be required to play Battlefield 3 on the PC, and at first, it seemed like just another digital download service, however, some might find it disturbing that, according to the Origin EULA, EA collects information about your computer, the software installed on it, its hardware, not only to “improve the service”, but they can also pass on this data to third parties, as the document states:
EA may also use this information combined with personal information for marketing purposes and to improve our products and services. We may also share that data with our third party service providers in a form that does not personally identify you.
The last part, “in a form that does not personally identify you”, is a relief, but it’s scary to know that Origin will be collecting all sorts of information from your system, including your IP address and other, non-EA software that you have installed on your PC. You can read the full Origin EULA here.
It gets scarier. Another EA EULA, which covers EA Online and EA account privacy (which is requited to play Battlefield 3), has even more concerning legal speak. The scary part of the EULA, as pointed out by a user on The Escapist Forums:
When you use EA online and mobile products and services or you play our games on your PC or console, we may collect certain non-personal demographic information including gender, zip code, information about your computer, hardware, software, platform, media, mobile device, mobile device ID, console ID, incident data, Internet Protocol (IP) address, network Media Access Control (MAC) address and connection. We also collect other non-personal information such as feature usage, game play statistics and scores, user rankings and click paths.
Since Battlefield 3 and all other EA Online games fall under this category, it gives EA the right to collect vast amounts of data on players, and to make matters worse, the beginning of the document states that you waive all your rights to be protected by law. Worse, EA reserves the right to share all of this information with any third party, including law enforcement agencies.
We’re not sure if this is common among other publishers in their license agreements (like Valve’s Steam service), but it definitely seems like EA is taking it too far, if not breaking the law. If you wish to read the EA Online EULA, you can find it here.
What the fuck world?
Source: bf3blog.com
PS here’s a real difference between PC and PS3 version (I had a chance to play both):
If I’ll ever hear some jackass from Sony saying that PS3 is still a powerful piece of hardware I will fucking punch my screen.
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