Shadowstalker16: Games without English?????What the heel are they even thinking?
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How on earth do they imagine to stop piracy if they're trying to impose a language on someone?
No idea. All I know they aren't first who tried to do that. There was a scandal with Borderlands 2, that was swapped for USSR-version overnight, when all versions bought in former USSR countries turned out as Russian-language only, and launchable only from former USSR countries (also limiting your multiplayer partners to owners of same version). Including three Baltic republics, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. 2K probably had no idea that USSR collapsed more than two decades ago, and there is a lot of people who does not speaks Russian language. Shitstorm arised, and all people received second, "worldwide" copy, that was playable with people from anywhere, not just USSR reservation.
Apparently ubi and ea enjoy waltzing on field full of rakes (sadly not mines), so they impose more and more locks on their goods. Most recent ubi titles are language-locked, on top of gift-lock, and region-lock in Steam. And there is no way to purchase different language version digitally through either Steam or that rubbish pile of turd known as "uplay". Support there is also absolutely the worst, and there is no chance to get any reply regarding languages and regional version.
Before two golden poo award winners withdrawn their catalogue from Steam, they blamed Steam for not letting them do business in customer-friendly ways. Customer-friendly my arse - 3 years passed, you can't change language to understand the store, you still can't buy version you want, even for higher price, and talking with them is less productive then talking to wall - at least when you talk to wall, there is echo. Those commercial impotents can't do shit, other than blame pirates, Steam, reexport, or anyone, yet doing nothing to change situation into more truly customer-friendly.
Sure, Steam and GoG are so bad - both offer books and other materials from "Expanded" universes and not even for their own "IPs".