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Re: No English language supported?

@holger1405 I do understand that. However, I hope EA also understands that this approach to the problem is exactly what drives people to seek pirated or otherwise illegal access to fully English versions of their games... as was painfully obvious from reading some of the posts here in the multitude of similar topics. People - mos of them real die hard fans of the games -  want to get legal copies, they want to support the developers, but if it means paying money for a version of the game they won't be able to fully enjoy... they simply won't. They'll go elsewhere instead.

Punishing legit customers for what the shady ones do is the worst PR move possible. Most unfair one, too. Of course, EA doesn't care about our minority, they're going to make their money anyway, so it doesn't hurt their accounts to put this dirty bandaid on the problem and leave it at that.

I'm sorry if I seem bitter, but in my long-time relationship with EA and their games, I've always - ALWAYS - felt like a second class citizen who can be given a lesser product and told to shut up.

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  • @Arishocked Trust me, I do know that purchases from abrod or VPN are not for everyone and are far from ideal. Hell, that's why I started this thread. 

    All I'm saying is what can be done, and as stated before, they will not allow language change because that's how they choose to deal with people buying cheaper games with VPN.

    By making the product itself worth sh*t.

    No, I do not agree with such practices at all. All we can do, is do the reverse of what they wanted to protect against, VPN purchases or boxed/abroad purchases.

    People above mentioned workarounds, DO NOT COUNT ON IT!

    Keep in mind they do more and more work to prevent this! 

    Even if you switch the files/change registry, you have to disable Origin as it checks in real time during startup what language you are using. 

    Dragon Age Inquisition was a PAIN to switch to english. Andromeda might be impossible.

    If it's a deal breaker for you, be warned, lest you end up with a copy you are not satisfied with (like me with Inquisition, Sims4... Previous game thankfully I could modify easily, but current ones are not worth the effort).

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