Re: [Update] DATV - Steam/Epic games unavailable in India or Turkey
Yeah, there's so many talented people who've legitimately worked hard on it who have no hand whatsoever in any of this, and I have no desire to bear any illwill towards any developer at BioWare - not when their games have meant so much to me. @MorningAnn also absolutely has the point of like - why would most of us be here wanting to play the game so desperately if we weren't fans or didn't think it was going to be good? Even if the worst comes to worst, and this doesn't get resolved and we can't play the game, I'd want the best for it - for the people who've put in the effort to make it what it is and for the people who are looking forward and can still enjoy it.
Also yeah, that's *really all community managers* are allowed to say, they're certainly not going to be privy to any information other than what's relayed to them (in fact they most likely don't even know anything more than we do), and they can't go around putting statements for EA without the go-ahead - that would straight up just get them fired, their hands really are tied here. There's no point in lambasting them over this when everything is in the hands of people a lot higher up in publishing.
All that aside, we also just have no idea *why* any of this is happening. The silence does not help, I agree, and I'm as exasperated about it as anyone else here - heck I was worried that this kind of thing could happen months before posts like this started coming up because people in India have had the same issue with Inquisition and wayyy back when Veilguard was revealed as Dreadwolf, we couldn't access the store page after a short while. But at this point all that ranting is doing is just meaningless shouting into the void, based on assumptions after assumptions (don't get me wrong: I fully agree with everyone earlier who was mad at how certain parts of the community have been treating people voicing this, there's just a ton of racism there, but we can't say the same for this situation by itself- we have no information on the "why" of any of this, it could be as simple as distribution rights as it could be some fearful corporate refusal). I get it, we're all mad, but we can think about this rationally- and rationally we've done what we can, we've gotten an acknowledgement that word about this has been passed along, and that's really all that we could have ever done. All this noise we've made has certainly caught their attention, and I won't fault anyone for being so mad and exhausted they're done with all this and can't care less, but yeah, I'm just going to hope and if nothing comes of that - then well, we did what we could.
Also yeah, that's *really all community managers* are allowed to say, they're certainly not going to be privy to any information other than what's relayed to them (in fact they most likely don't even know anything more than we do), and they can't go around putting statements for EA without the go-ahead - that would straight up just get them fired, their hands really are tied here. There's no point in lambasting them over this when everything is in the hands of people a lot higher up in publishing.
All that aside, we also just have no idea *why* any of this is happening. The silence does not help, I agree, and I'm as exasperated about it as anyone else here - heck I was worried that this kind of thing could happen months before posts like this started coming up because people in India have had the same issue with Inquisition and wayyy back when Veilguard was revealed as Dreadwolf, we couldn't access the store page after a short while. But at this point all that ranting is doing is just meaningless shouting into the void, based on assumptions after assumptions (don't get me wrong: I fully agree with everyone earlier who was mad at how certain parts of the community have been treating people voicing this, there's just a ton of racism there, but we can't say the same for this situation by itself- we have no information on the "why" of any of this, it could be as simple as distribution rights as it could be some fearful corporate refusal). I get it, we're all mad, but we can think about this rationally- and rationally we've done what we can, we've gotten an acknowledgement that word about this has been passed along, and that's really all that we could have ever done. All this noise we've made has certainly caught their attention, and I won't fault anyone for being so mad and exhausted they're done with all this and can't care less, but yeah, I'm just going to hope and if nothing comes of that - then well, we did what we could.
