THQ humble bundle

meh, would be better if they would give you codes for each game rather than a bundle code.

i have 2 of those games already.
 
Holy. These are all great games. I own all of them but Saint's Row 3 which doesn't really interest me. THQ is just desperate at this point. I hope that if they go down under someone will make sure Relic can continue making games. I'd hate my favourite RTS developper to can because their publishers suck :(.
 
Bought the pack, i hope the google wallet thing is secure... i havent used it before.
Overall some pretty decent games there, i would recommend.
 
Oh, cool. More games to add to my "I will play this some time in the future, maybe" queue. Can't say no to that price.
 
That's a pretty great deal.

If THQ does go under I hope they don't drag Relic with them, I'm looking forward to the new Company of Heroes.
As long as they don't sell Relic to EA, of course.
 
So Germans are stuck with the "Low violence version" of Saints Row 3. Great. Foreseeable but still.
 
There's still violence but you can't use human shields and people don't drop money when you kill them. The cops will come after you the moment you kill a civilian. And the "Whored Mode" was removed, it seems.
I don't get why publishers region lock their games like this. It's not illegal for adults to aquire and play uncut games yet they decide to keep all Germans from activating a non-German key on Steam.
 
Have a friend in a non-restricted country log on your Steam account and activate the key.

Problem solved.


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You could also use a VPN to trick steam into thinking you aren't actually in Germany when you activate/download it.
 
Buxbaum666 said:
There's still violence but you can't use human shields and people don't drop money when you kill them. The cops will come after you the moment you kill a civilian. And the "Whored Mode" was removed, it seems.
I don't get why publishers region lock their games like this. It's not illegal for adults to aquire and play uncut games yet they decide to keep all Germans from activating a non-German key on Steam.
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Convenience. For the german market they'd have to enforce a stricter age-restriction if they wanted to sell indexed games to us. That's hard to implement, so they just don't sell the uncut versions at all.
 
I don't get it, really. At 80+ mln people, you'd think the German market is big enough to put a wee bit of effort in it.
 
It's because the German state has a special commission to decide what is harmful to young people. Which is funny: in a country so obsessed with personal freedoms and fighting fascism, nobody seems to have a real problem with the existence of an institution that encourages (or rather, forces) censorship.

Everyone with a German IP is buggered. Good thing Steam doesn't retroactively limit access to your games.

Note: VPN is a bit dodgy as far as Steam is concerned, I recall the TOS specifically forbid this kind of circumvention. If you do use one, try to make sure it's set to a neighbouring country without fucked up regulations.

If Steam asks, tell them you had to shell out and travel to the country next door, to exercise your customer rights.
 
Hassknecht said:
Convenience. For the german market they'd have to enforce a stricter age-restriction if they wanted to sell indexed games to us. That's hard to implement, so they just don't sell the uncut versions at all.
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I know that but that's not the point. You can't even activate a key for the uncut version. I bought a UK key for Left4Dead2 on ebay and could activate it on Steam with no problems at all. That game was actually confiscated for "glorification of violence" and it's thus illegal to sell the international version in Germany. (thank god for the European Union and open borders) The uncut version of SR3 was "indexed" but not confiscated so it's technically still legal to sell it to adults.
The bundle includes a key for the "low violence" version and I totally get that. To make sure the buyer is old enough is too big a hassle. But the decision to prevent activation of uncut keys on Steam is absolutely pointless. If one manages to get such a key, one should be able to play it.

Multidirectional said:
Buxbaum666 said:
people don't drop money when you kill them
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:lol: Because stealing is bad? Are Thief games banned over there too?
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No. :roll: Because killing civilians is bad and the money is seen as an incentive to do that.
 
Doesn't Germany have electronic ID cards too? Couldn't all this bullshit be easily solved by devising a system to use these for activating adult-only games etc.?
 
Theoretically? Yes. But I don't think there will be a standardized age restriction system for the internet anytime soon.
 
If even Germany couldn't organize something like that, the world is doomed. DOOMED.
 
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