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

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@EA_Illium wrote:

Hey Everyone, 

I wanted to share a quick update on this as we've reached out to the team to get more clarification. 

At this time Dragon Age is not available in India due to the game not being reviewed and approved locally by a Ratings Board for the region.

Apologies for the frustration this might cause. Cheers!

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Who "reviewed and approved" Mass Effect: Andromeda then?

There is no ratings board for video games in India. Even sex games are released without regulation here.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard was available to wishlist on stores but now show a error message saying unavailable in the region. Is it releasing in India? If not, why? @EA_Lanna @EA_Kent @EA_Kat 

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@EA_Illium wrote:

Hey Everyone, 

I wanted to share a quick update on this as we've reached out to the team to get more clarification. 

At this time Dragon Age is not available in India due to the game not being reviewed and approved locally by a Ratings Board for the region.

Apologies for the frustration this might cause. Cheers!

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What ratings board? India doesn't have a ratings board for video games! And how was Mass Effect: Andromeda "reviewed and approved" then?

Inquisition is available on Epic. Already own it there as well. This makes no sense! Just make it available on steam so we can own all three on the steam account. There is no reason it should still be unavailable considering the sheer nonsense available on steam. Plus Andromeda is available.

What it appears like is that you guys set the region lock a while back and never reverted it.

We all know this answer does not make sense.

Games similar to Dragon Age get released without issue on Steam and other places. And there are no "Ratings Board" in India checking on video games.

We would appreciate a clear and honest answer. What happened with Dragon Age specifically?

We would love to help out so that Inquisition and "The Veilguard" get launched and get sales in India. I think that's what you guys want as well.

Not to be rude but, do you really think India has some regulatory board for gaming which lead to not allowing dragon age veilguard to be sold in the country

This ain't the first time I've seen it happen

There is no ratings board that approves games in India. There are alot of RPG and Dragon Age fans here that would love to play and promote Veilguard so please be more transparent with this audience. 

I would really appreciate that you guys look a bit more thoroughly into this issue and not replying with the same placeholder text again. 

Hi, 

Could you please elaborate which "ratings board" has denied the certification?

We can raise a PIL against the board asking for the reasons. 

But as far as I am aware there are no ratings board in India for games. 

If you guys have decided to self regulate again, please be clear and don't paste a generic message. 

Please get this cleared up. This is absolutely not the case. It has been reported here that this decision was made 10 years ago due to the distributor lacking financially and giving EA the wrong advice. There is absolutely no reason for EA to skip out the country with the biggest population in the world.

There has been conflicting information regarding this anywhere. This is the biggest population in the world and skipping it because you made a bad decision 10 years ago is not good. Baldur's Gate 3 released here and did amazing. Multiple NSFW games with homosexual themes release here daily without any objection. There is no ratings board. No ban. Please re-consider your approach here as you're doing nothing but missing out on sales. If you cannot make the game available physically at least do not delist it from digital storefronts.