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I'm a polish ORIGIN user and was really looking forward to give BF4 a try after all the good times that I had with BF3, but the whole locked region thing is a major turn off for me, mostly due to the poor localization. Saw the polish version on my friends PC and the voice actors are just horrible, not to mention the botched translation. Some things just should be left untouched/unaltered. Even worse is that there's no possibility to buy a english version directly from ORIGIN, so instead of getting the game from an official source or retailer I'm forced to search for crummy websites selling EU/ROW keys!
I can understand that EA is trying to stop people from exploiting the whole price difference thing and selling cheaper CDkeys because it's not good for their business, but why are we legit paying customers being punished for this? Saying that we shouldn't be playing the english version because we paid less is just horrible, especially comming from a community manager. Yes we pay aprox. 130-150 polish zloty for the game which is around 30 euros or 44 dollars, but considering our economic situation and our salaries, for us that's basically the equivalent of a 60 bucks game purchase compared to western countries. It's really disappointing that we are being treated by EA and their support staff like second grade customers. If EA keeps this up they're not only going to be titled the worst company in the US again, but soon also the worst company in the world.