Blizzard Removes Multi-Language Support for Russian Copies of Diablo III, Leaving Gamers Stranded

[revengous]

you seem to be agreeing with his post.

I should have separated my post better. For the most part, yes I'm agreeing, I just don't understand how buying a key from Russia is similar to pirating the key or stealing a car.

he never says it does. he said its almost as bad as pirating (I agree)

as for the car reference, instead of saying "go steal" he shouldve said "go take"

[Anon. E. Moose]

he never says it does. he said its almost as bad as pirating (I agree)

as for the car reference, instead of saying "go steal" he shouldve said "go take"

Wouldn't you call something "as bad" as something else "similar?" (the word I used)
In the same sense, what's the difference between taking something and stealing it?
I guess I'm just the only one that doesn't get the sense behind his scale or argument. But now I'm getting off-topic.

[revengous]

he never says it does. he said its almost as bad as pirating (I agree)

as for the car reference, instead of saying "go steal" he shouldve said "go take"

Wouldn't you call something "as bad" as something else "similar?" (the word I used)
In the same sense, what's the difference between taking something and stealing it?
I guess I'm just the only one that doesn't get the sense behind his scale or argument. But now I'm getting off-topic.

and to me it's just one step above pirate.

on topic, what about places with multiple main languages? places in canada etc that speak french.places like brazil?

[Bicketybam]

That seems to be the problem that some people don't realise. It is not just Russian versions being blocked to native language it is other places to. There are examples of people in Brazil, Mexico, Spain and Italy being locked out of multi-language support.

How would you feel (as an Aussie for example) if you lived/worked in those countries and purchased the game there (knowing that the game is advertised with multi-language support) only to be locked out of the English servers because Blizzard thinks you should either only speak the native language or should have paid more for the ability to use an English speaking server?

If it was just the Russian versions then by all means get up on your high horse and preach to everyone how you think it is wrong to use that version but it's not just the Russian version that has been affected.

[Cyrinno]

It is stupid that all versions of the game that are getting locked, didn't realised it went beyond Russia.

If some of you read my whole post I said I don't agree with price gouging either, in fact I wish more people got their keys from Russia simply because they felt it nessessary to charge us twice the price for the game and still didn't give us Aussie servers. It's funny, they say they don't do Aussie servers cause it costs too much but you'd think that twice the cost price would cover that.

[Cyrinno]

I would say also a game cannot truely have "global play" without full interchangable language support.

Just look at windows and how easy it is to swap keyboard languages if your someone on the go.

[Cyrinno]

you seem to be agreeing with his post.

I should have separated my post better. For the most part, yes I'm agreeing, I just don't understand how buying a key from Russia is similar to pirating the key or stealing a car.

he never says it does. he said its almost as bad as pirating (I agree)

as for the car reference, instead of saying "go steal" he shouldve said "go take"

technically I didn't steal the car becuase I left a $50 for the dealership. Don't worry the car was made in Russia so it's okay.(but will probably blow up on me )

[sp4z3n3ko]

you seem to be agreeing with his post.

I should have separated my post better. For the most part, yes I'm agreeing, I just don't understand how buying a key from Russia is similar to pirating the key or stealing a car.

he never says it does. he said its almost as bad as pirating (I agree)

as for the car reference, instead of saying "go steal" he shouldve said "go take"

LOL all your analogies suck, (pardon my english) as IF blizzard was the car selling company. They advertised this car as being just as good as the next car, the seller than sold said car for the same price, as the "special paint" car because it has all the functionality... (wow it has a cup holder~!! awesome!) so you bought your car and than went home injoyed you cupholder for a day.... but than the car selling company comes by and says.... well sorry we made a mistake you bought this car for the price we wanted, but in short consideration, we decided, that you are not allowed to use this cup holder.... and they break it out...... and leave to never be heard from again.... is this how you want to conduct business ??

Also people keep on rambeling about the RU keys, as stated before in this forum, All over the world people are being discriminated, on base of location( where you bought your physical copy), also Blizzard is creating a monopoly position for itself( granted you can import an EU or US key but its more expensive....) by only allowing people that bought from the Blizzard store be able to play in all languages! ofcourse ecept for EU-[XX] keys or US-en keys ( EU-fr keys are also multi lingual....It says FR on the box, The box is totaly in French, according to Blizz logic they should only be allowed to play in French.... )

so I hope I made some thing clear, and if you people see it different please tell me why! thank you!!

[Cyrinno]

Alot of companies promote self purchasing, I think I remember The Witcher 2 having extra goodies if you bought it on gog?

[PalZer0]

Alot of companies promote self purchasing, I think I remember The Witcher 2 having extra goodies if you bought it on gog?

Yes but that's the proper way to go about encouraging that sort of thing - not locking games to a specific language which forces people to pay up again for a multilanguage version.

[James Pinnell]

I think a lot of people are missing the point somewhat.

The problem, primarily, is that Blizzard sold a product in a particular form - Multi-Region, Multi-Language. Post sale, they pushed through a mandatory patch that effectively disabled the software from doing what they originally sold it to do.

Imagine if your copy of D3 was suddenly patched out from the Americas and forced into the Asia region. Just because it doesn't happen to you doesn't make it any less awful.

To those questioning the legality of the keys - these keys are not illegal. They were scanned from official Russian copies of the game.

[Cyrinno]

but was multi language claimed by blizzard I've only ever seen multi region. I havn't seen any links or screenshots of boxes which say multi language support as a game feature. If anyone has links to even a blue post pre patch or launch I'd like to see.

[Lexxbomb]

as I said eairler if the CD that came with the keys contains the files for the other languages then the owner of said key is entitled to use the languages on the CD... it should be that simple

[sar84]

as I said eairler if the CD that came with the keys contains the files for the other languages then the owner of said key is entitled to use the languages on the CD... it should be that simple

SHOULD being the the right word, consider games that come with assets for downloadable content on the disk. As far as they're concerned you buy a license, they can put what ever they want on the disk but you don't get access to it unless you've paid the right licensing fees. Or something like that.

[Cyrinno]

Games are shipped with on disk DLC by that methodology I am entitled to it as well free of charge.