rage -_- : Fallout: New Vegas

» Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:06 am

I know this is probably not the right outlet for this but I just have to rage somewhere or I'm going to blow.
I love Fallout. I really, really do. I'm an international student staying with a friend in germany at the moment while studying. I speak broken german at best. So I searched everywhere for a good Fallout New Vegas version (import since I can't play german of course). I found it on Steam, description, checkout, every little thing in english. I start the game and... it's in german, and so heavily censored that I might as well play Hello Kitty Adventures. So now I spent 50€ (1/4th of my monthly income as a student) for a game I'll never be able to play and Steam just points cockily to their no-refunds policy.
I know all this is not Bethesdas fault.. or maybe it is for not making the right deals with the german market, I don't know.

thanks for listening, a very, VERY angry customer..

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:03 pm

I know this is probably not the right outlet for this but I just have to rage somewhere or I'm going to blow.
I love Fallout. I really, really do. I'm an international student staying with a friend in germany at the moment while studying. I speak broken german at best. So I searched everywhere for a good Fallout New Vegas version (import since I can't play german of course). I found it on Steam, description, checkout, every little thing in english. I start the game and... it's in german, and so heavily censored that I might as well play Hello Kitty Adventures. So now I spent 50€ (1/4th of my monthly income as a student) for a game I'll never be able to play and Steam just points cockily to their no-refunds policy.
I know all this is not Bethesdas fault.. or maybe it is for not making the right deals with the german market, I don't know.
But at this point the only thing I am considering is pirating the game as that would finally give me the option to play the game as it was intended to play in a language I can actually understand...

thanks for listening, a very, VERY angry customer..

"No refund" policies need to GTFO. So irritating.

They won't even do an exchange? That's all it would be...

» Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:27 am

The whole german censoring thing is a problem with (well obviously germany) Steam. They give you the localized version even if you bought it in a different country. Lots of people have raged about buying a game in the U.S. (where they live) then going overseas and having to play the censored version.

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 8:47 pm

No refunds, no exchange, I'm stuck with a german censored version which meant that I threw it in the proverbial trash can already... I don't know what I will do now, probably wait a year or two till I'm comfortable enough to buy another copy that's under 15€ -_- I can't shake this anger though

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:11 pm

the issue here is the worldwide state of games and censoring(especially in germany) and stupid steam, the company that like, ruins everything good about getting a game on the pc. go find a petition website, and petition for games censoring, then go find a boycott site, and boycot steam. its not beths fault, just politics and the flow of money (germany censoring and steam respectivly)

» Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:28 pm

censored? ... I thought it was the west that won, and the east that fell?

in what ways is it censored?

» Wed Dec 23, 2009 2:26 am

Sorry for your troubles with the game, however, your issue seems to be unrelated to FO:NV specifically, and we don't allow rant threads on this forum.

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