Re: [Update] DATV - Steam/Epic games unavailable in India or Turkey

I feel like this decision was made by only a few people, and they didn't inform the EA HELP team about it.

I just watched a youtuber named Orhun Kayaalp, this guy went to watch the demo and saw the game backstage. He talks about the game not being available in Turkey calls it a drama and doesn’t wanna touch on the subject and brushes it off. Are these people just paid not to say anything so they can keep their invitations to these previews??? because this is ridiculous 😂

@gnceThose game journalists should be ashamed of themselves, they should side with us as ''fellow gamers'' but instead they side with the corps...

We have right to know what will happen next. Just say we are off on TURKEY. First reason...and sorry about it...we want hear! İ dont wanna wait it

Ive been tracking the global top selling games list on Steam for the past week, The Veilguard only got up as high as 103. It is 2 months away from release, they announced a month ago that it is Steam Deck verified and wont use EA App, they also dedicated a part of their big marketing push to how much work they put into PC version but right now it sits at number 119 in top sellers list. Meanwhile Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 keeps going up the ladder and is at number 67 right now with 6 months to go before release. It is sad to see this happening to Dragon Age, because first KCD game didnt gain that much attention at release and its sales only started increasing over time with discounts and word of mouth. But there is the fact that KCD 2 is only banned in Russia-Belarus and has regional pricing applied, while The Veilguard is banned in 15 countries and its price is flat 60 everywhere(even higher in Poland in a really weird way). 

EA is trying very hard to ruin this franchise and Bioware. They are just throwing away major game spoilers on discord, journal videos, trailers to get some kind of attention. 

Still many people might be waiting for reviews to buy. 

So someone used a VPN to “relocate” to New Zealand to play Star Wars: Outlaws a little early (definitely wasn’t me), opened EA app by mistake instead of Ubisoft, and Veilguard was available to purchase. Bought it, showing in library as preordered, hoping it works as normal?

It works as normal, thats how I purchased Inquisition ten years back on the release day. Thats the only option for Vielguard as well, or wait for the Third party Global Keys and lose the Preorder bonus. 

@Jedasdd That doesn't really mean much, pre-orders wane and wax, especially during times of marketing. Veilguard got up to #3 in the top sellers list on Steam and stayed pretty high for a few days following/around the 15th August reveal. It's liable to keep shifting as they continue to drop more trailers. The recent combat ones were unlisted when they dropped, and the compilation was only made public like 30 minutes ago so!

Also it hit top 20 on the PSN, there's a post about it on reddit right now.

If you are using VPN

Steam - Buy through a new Account. They tend to ban accounts if you take advantage of their regional pricing. 

EPIC - Impossible. Need a country Specific Credit Card. Even Paypal is out of question. 

EA App - Use Paypal and purchase. It Works!

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@NamelessFaraam wrote:

@Jedasdd That doesn't really mean much, pre-orders wane and wax, especially during times of marketing. Veilguard got up to #3 in the top sellers list on Steam and stayed pretty high for a few days following/around the 15th August reveal. It's liable to keep shifting as they continue to drop more trailers. The recent combat ones were unlisted when they dropped, and the compilation was only made public like 30 minutes ago so!

Also it hit top 20 on the PSN, there's a post about it on reddit right now.

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It is a really worrying situation with such a strong focus on pc and Steam with 2 motnhs to go and it cant even break into top 100 while games that can be seen as competitors and months away are doing much better. Maybe IGN will do a better job marketing it with their month long coverage.

@JedasddI mean, it *did* break in though, like I said it was literally #3 at its peak and stayed pretty high up for a while before dropping out - which is natural. The other games aren't doing "much better", like I said: pre-order metrics such as that are completely unreliable and vary depending on new trailers and such. You mentioned KCD2 there and it had a new trailer drop only 5 days ago that has had over a million views, of course it's higher up (and that's coming a week after the Veilguard one, and yet even that has slipped back to the 60s as you note)

Yes, you need country Specific Credit card, or buy steam gift card for that country in third party sites or try using paypal. Be careful not to use your main account though. 

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@velvetassasin wrote:

If you are using VPN

Steam - Buy through a new Account. They tend to ban accounts if you take advantage of their regional pricing. 

EPIC - Impossible. Need a country Specific Credit Card. Even Paypal is out of question. 

EA App - Use Paypal and purchase. It Works!

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Others have mentioned problems with these methods, but we shouldnt be forced to find loopholes to give away our 60 dollars to a company thats worth billions when they are not even willing to adress the issue one way or another. At this point Im pretty happy with not being allowed to buy after watching the high level combat footage theyve released, they accidentally helped me from making a regretful purchase based on 10 years of pent up hype.

Guys maybe we can move the lengthy discussions on how to illicitly acquire the game to somewhere else as they might be used as an excuse to delete/lock the thread. 

This is not illicit at all, this was suggested by EA during inquisition time 😂

@velvetassasinWe don't know what their current stance is as afaik they never suggested a similar course of action for Turkey 🙂 Mods have been altering/removing comments for way less, it would be a shame to lose 40+ pages of discussion to this

Where am i? is this EA support site? why they don't support customers...


HEY EA! i am a customer. You have to respond us ..What are you doin now?? just read the massage and sit and shut up??? what is goin on