Just a heads up to the publishers that for some reason your game is no longer available on the UK Steam Store (don't know about others). This is despite the game being officially released today (and I already have it as I pre-purchased and have been playing). You might want to have a word with Steam and put some pressure on them to sort it out asap Going by the steam forums lots of UK/EU players are already disgruntled by the release dates (which I am sure there is a good reason for but for the life of me can't imagine what it is in this day and age of digital sales etc) and this isn't really helping matters nor making us feel like you actually want to sell us this game.

Anyhow I am going back to playing Brink for despite what many have said I am really enjoying it and I am sure others would like to given the opportunity.

well i am at greece and steam has brink all over front page of featured items and it looks good , the best front page ever on those games , nice artistic overwelming colors

Im ok since i pre-ordered (UK) but it is not in top sellers, recent releases, featured or anything. and the search bar only brings brink trailers.
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Nobody is able to purchase brink on steam in the UK!

I just checked and it looks like he is right lol. I wonder what happened.

Looking into the matter as we speak... hold tight.

Any update available on this issue please as it is still not showing up on the UK Steam Store (hasn't for most of the day afaik) Must be hurting your UK first day sales so would have thought you would be all over this.

Anyway thank in advance for any info

Nothing still seems to have happened with regard to the Steam UK Store issue, everyone seems to have gone oddly mute on the problem from the Steam Guys (Valve), to Splash Damage and Bethesda. Sadly I know this has cost them sales as the reason I was looking into this in the first place was that I had 3 friends who wanted to buy this after hearing how much fun I had playing Brink. D2D also seem to be having issues too and it seems to be nearly impossible to get this game in the UK via download.

Anyhow my friends have said F it as is its not worth the hassle of playing hunt the game, when at the end of the day all they want to do is give you their money. For such a big company the UK release seems to have been a very amateurish affair at best and a big disappointment for at least 4 people (I am sure many more but I don't profess to speak for anyone other than those I know.) All very sad as I do consider Brink to be a good game and enjoyable to play.

Anyhow signing off now as I have said my piece even though it will make zero impact on anyone.

Same problem here i really want to play this game with my friend who can already play duo preorder .

Please gamesas get it back into the UK Store fast its already a day ago D:.

Why not just grab a copy of d2d instead? It still goes trough steam.

I pay with paysafecards it doesn't have an option for that.

There have been reported cases of d2d keys not working in Europe/UK and I don't know about you but I wouldn't be prepared to shell out my money if this had a chance of happening. The thing is this could have been avoided with a bit more communications from anyone (Steam, Bethesda or SD). Fine Bethesda said they were looking into it (in this thread), SD tweeted that it is being looked at and as usual naff all from steam. After that silence. Even something as simple as "sorry but it isn't going to be up until x or y time" would have been ok but silence is not an option in this day and age in my opinion.

Anyhow at this stage the point is mute as far as I am concerned as my friends have given up on Brink so I will just have to take my chances with the online side. To be honest though this whole episode has left a sour taste in my mouth so I wont be playing much for a little while. For the moment back to BC2 which my friends and I can all enjoy.

Hope you all enjoy Brink and I sure I will when I get back into it as at the end of the day it is fun (even more so with a group of mates)

Lmfao, the fact that Steam suddenly isnt offering Brink to UK Is more then likely a steam issue not sd..

So in other words steam left a sour taste in your mouth, dont use it

That would be rather unlikely because Steam get money by selling games - they have nothing to gain by releasing game everywhere except UK - only cases where game was pulled that I know of were decided by publishers.

By that same logic SD/Bethesda has nothing to gain by doing it either, your own logic is against you :/

It's not only Steam. You can't buy Brink digitally from any site if you're in the UK.

Publishers setting stupid regional restrictions arent exactly rare. Also Steam isnt only shop not selling in UK.

Yeah, I just clicked the Steam link to see id there's any DLC, but it says "Oops, this product has not been released in your region" (UK).

...Just as well I ordered pre-release from Game, and I'm loving the game... hopefully it'll be sorted before next month's DLC comes out

I noticed this earlier browsing steam, my friends spilt on this game.. some went for the PC version, some for the 360.. so I was tempted to pick up a 2nd copy on the PC.. and it was just not there

Frankly I didn't care whose fault it was to be honest, assigning blame is something you do after the issue has been dealt with.

However, just for completeness, I put in a support ticket at Steam regarding this issue (as did my friends) and also made a post in a thread on the steam forums - result - no reply to any of them. Therefore it is not unreasonable for me to try the publisher next as it is their job to publish the game, hence why this thread appeared. To their credit Bethesda did at least acknowledge the issue but after that silence. Also tried to contact SD but as a developer they would be somewhat limited as to actual action with regard to resolving this issue and again to their credit they acknowledged the issue in a tweet but sadly nothing more than that.

As I said I didn't really care who was at fault only that I got some solid info that I could pass onto my friends, who are the people who are affected by this problem. Going by the steam forums many other are affected too but I don't presume to speak for people I don't know. However, as stated in my previous post all this is now a mute point as far as my friends and I are concerned as they will not be buying the game now because of this flawed UK launch (I already own it but don't feel inclined to play at the moment but will probably jump online at some point)

I sincerely hope that the others who are prepared to wait don't have a long wait for this to be resolved as Brink is in itself a good fun multi player game with plenty of potential for expansion in the future.

I've been holding very tight, can we please have an update, I really want to purchase this game, I only use Steam for digital downloads and my nearest game store is a damn long walk.

BUMP

Just to add a little bit of irony to this thread, the Steam News feed features an article from another site reporting the fact that Brink is missing from the UK Steam Store

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/594685399040455013/7FD27291BFBAABFDA957E2B52FB728A9B80D6195/

Somewhat messed up whichever way you look at it, when Steam haven't said a single thing themselves with regard to this situation :wacko: :down:

What I find even stranger is that Valve are still advertising the pre-load option for Brink to people in the UK.... - http://store.steampowered.com/news/5429/

You can pre-load it but not buy it. Something has gone very strange here. I work for a GSP and we have had loads of people banging on about how they had pre-ordered a server with us, but then didn't have a game to play on the server!!

Not doing much for the reputation of the Steam/SD partnership.

Thank God we ordered our copy's from shop2

This situation is insane, I want to purcahse this game but can't. I don't mind delays or technical problems, these things happens. It's the total lack of communication that's frustrating, all we ask for is an update on the situation.

why is it taking so long to find out what went wrong here?

no one on the steam forums is giving reasons.. and it seems the same here, I want to buy this game on my PC dammit