Global Steam subscription issues languages unavailiable

Post » Wed Jul 29, 2015 6:16 am

I purchased 'Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary' Steam digital key at Humble (Bundle) Store.
When I activated it, I saw a list of available 7 languages, which not including my native language - russian.

At the same time, there is any info about any language restrictions at Steam Store page (see https://Store.SteamPowered.Com/app/72850/).

I investigated this issue in depth and wish to report you:
according to SteamDB.Info source information, there are 7 different Steam subscriptions, which contains in its title 'Legendary' word.
2 of them (## 28026, 28188) are for Ru/CIS region, 2 of them (## 27101, 28187) are global but not availiable for purhase at RU/CIS region
see proofs:
https://SteamDB.Info/app/72850/subs/ : The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim // Packages;
https://SteamDB.Info/sub/28188/ : Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary (RU) // Information;
https://SteamDB.Info/sub/28187/ : The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Legendary Edition // Information;
https://SteamDB.Info/sub/28026/ : Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Retail (RU) // Information;
https://SteamDB.Info/sub/27101/ : Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Retail // Information.
other 3 (## https://SteamDB.Info/sub/27699/, https://SteamDB.Info/sub/27700/, https://SteamDB.Info/sub/28027/) are for rest world countries or group of countries.
Let's compare 4 subscriptions (Ru/CIS and global) by groups:
first group would be
https://SteamDB.Info/sub/28188/ : Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary (RU) // Information;
https://SteamDB.Info/sub/28026/ : Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Retail (RU) // Information.
and second group
https://SteamDB.Info/sub/28187/ : The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Legendary Edition // Information;
https://SteamDB.Info/sub/27101/ : Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Retail // Information.
There should be totally identical information about Steam subscriptions ## 28026 and 28188 from the first group in 'Depots' path of SteamDB.Info, because they should be different from each other ONLY by method of purchising (retail digital key or Steam store).
Let's check whether this:
https://SteamDB.Info/sub/28188/depots/ : Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary (RU) // Depots;
https://SteamDB.Info/sub/28026/depots/ : Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Retail (RU) // Depots
According current version of SteamDB.Info information about these subscriptions, they really totally different:
If I'll activate Steam store subscription # 28188 called 'Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary (RU)', it could be used 40 depots and there will be availiable the next 10 languages including russian:
english, french, italian, german, spanish, polish, czech, russian, japanese, traditional chinese
versus situation when
I'll activate retail subscription # 28026 called 'Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Retail (RU)', - it could be used only 12 depots and there will be availiable the next 3 languages including russian:
english, russian, traditional chinese.
THAT's ALREADY ABSOLUTELY ABNORMAL.
Let's see details about our second group of subscriptions.
Like with the first group, there should be totally identical information about Steam subscriptions ## 27101 and 28187 from our second group in 'Depots' path of SteamDB.Info, because they should be different from each other ONLY by method of purchising (retail digital key or Steam store).
Let's check whether this:
https://SteamDB.Info/sub/28187/depots/ : The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Legendary Edition // Depots;
https://SteamDB.Info/sub/27101/depots/ : Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Retail // Depots
According current version of SteamDB.Info information about these subscriptions, they really totally different, like in situation with our first goup of subs:
If I'll activate Steam store subscription # 28187 called 'The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Legendary Edition', it could be used 40 depots and there will be availiable the next 10 languages including russian:
english, french, italian, german, spanish, polish, czech, russian, japanese, traditional chinese
versus situation when
I'll activate retail subscription # 27101 called 'Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Retail', - it could be used only 28 depots and there will be available a list of the next 7 languages (WHICH DOESN't INCLUDE RUSSIAN language):
english, french, italian, german, spanish, japanese, traditional chinese.
THAT's ABSOLUTELY ABNORMAL, as I already said.
That should be fixed. As You see, that's already more than personal.
DESCRIBED INVESTIGATION SHOWS THAT THIS IS GLOBAL ISSUE became because of FAILINGS MADE BY AUTHOR(S) of 'Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim' SUBSCRIPTIONS THAT MUST BE FIXED AS SOON AS IT POSSIBLE.

?Thanks in advance.
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