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Valve Responds to Steam Territory Deactivations (Updated)
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  • Schnapple legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    October 26, 2007 11:49 AM

    Honest question: did anyone know this was going to happen beforehand? Did Valve say anywhere in their EULA-I-haven't-read that this was the case?

    • Visceral Monkey legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      October 26, 2007 11:51 AM

      From what I've read, no, there was no mention of it anywhere.

      • K1Bond007 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        October 26, 2007 12:34 PM

        It's mentioned, it just doesn't specifically say Thailand or Russia. It just says prohibited countries or something to that effect and it's quite ambiguous with all the talk of Depart of Commerce and Terrorist support states.

        Funny that when there's a problem that everyone starts squawking about the EULA, but no one ever fucking reads them. Seriously. Raise your hand if you actually read the EULA for Steam or any game for that matter prior to installing it. I sure as hell didn't, but I also didn't decide to be cheap and buy my copy from another country like Thailand. Then these cheap buyers complain when it turns out they broke the EULA or the law or whatever.

      • stgdz legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        October 26, 2007 12:35 PM

        ouch, looks like its sues ville for them then.

        • famine101 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          October 26, 2007 4:00 PM

          I'm going to have to agree with the lawsuit then, even though I bought my copy via steam and own most of their other games.

          If anybody did anything wrong here, it was the Thailand sellers who (I presume) were told about their key licenses.

    • mrmaster2 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      October 26, 2007 12:33 PM

      All I know is if you bought a dvd in Thailand and then moved to the States it technically wouldn't play in any dvd players (ofcourse now there are region free dvd players).

      Valve is just doing the same thing. My question is the same as Schnapple...was this made public before?

      I think it technically is because when I purchased it online I had to check a box stating I was playing it in the country i purchased it in. (i just got it last night!)

      • afty legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury ultra mega
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        October 26, 2007 12:35 PM

        It's not quite the same. It'd be as though you bought a DVD in Thailand and it played for a while in the U.S. and then was deactivated. If it never worked in the first place, I don't think people would be up in arms.

        • Speedy8 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          October 26, 2007 4:11 PM

          Another difference is that you could bring your Thai DVD player with you and keep watching it, it just wouldn't play in US DVD players. So it really is completely different.

    • Darth Sissy legacy 10 years
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      October 27, 2007 8:06 AM

      Of course not. Valve is still selling UNITS! Greed rules the world!!

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