Alternate solution to german geolock

[BjornB]

There should be no difference for Germans when it comes to sales and stuff. It will be like now. If you buy it from Germany, the retailer will give you a German Steam key.

 

[BjornB]

You must ask each retailer how they do it. The information I received is what I've been saying for a while now:

- If you are in Germany and buy the game from GMG, Paradoxplaza etc, you will receive a German Steam key. I don't know how to say it more clearly.

If you are living in Germany, you will get the German version no matter what retailer/outlet/botique you buy it from.

 

[BjornB]

And still no freaking warnings anywhere. You know you are currently shooting yourselves in the food by trying to trick your customers into buying a censored version, right. Every other Publisher has the decency to warn their customers about this sort of thing. If you keep this up, enjoy the sh**storm come release.
Believe me the current forums will be a peacefull paradise in comparison.

You are really on the war path Amaror. I have no idea what you think we stand to gain from "tricking people into buying a censored version". What kind of agenda do you think we have here?

 

[BjornB]

I tried yesterday to receive a refund from paradox, based of the info Bjorn told us yesterday, today they said no, as the key will work. I hope the key will work.
Thats the first and last game i bought in your store, thanks PDX. Your info policy is really dissapointing.

The key will work, but you can still request a refund. It's your consumer right. Did they really deny you a refund when you wanted it?

But can you gurantee that Austria will get the international version?

The information I've received is that it's only Germany that is affected by this.

 

[BjornB]

On the contrary I am trying to help you here.
I have no idea what you have to gain from "tricking people into buying a censored version". The only thing I know is that you are only selling a censored version in Germany in combination with the fact that the storefronts selling that censored version are not warning their customers about the fact that it is a censored version. I don't know why you are doing that, but since I have told you multiple times that this sort of thing seriously needs a warning, the only reason I can come up with for why there still isn't a warning is that for some reason paradox doesn't want their german customers to know that they are buying a censored version of the game. Correct me If I am wrong here.
The only thing alluding to the existence of this german version is a single thread on this very forum. Which, btw., didn't exist until I brought this issue to your attention. Do you, for some reason, think that every single customer will check the official Forum of the game before buying it? And how do you think customers will react when they paid up to 90 Euros for a game and finally get that game only to discover that it is censored. Considering the fact that the Publisher selling the game did no concernable effort to inform them that the version they bought will be censored. Now they will not only be upset about the censored game version but they will also be upset because they will feel like paradox tricked them into buying the game.
I personally think that that would hurt paradox image considerably in a lot of people's eyes and I am trying to keep you guys from making that mistake. But, sorry, If you feel I am on a warpath here. Do whatever you want. It's your company after all.

Everything displayed to Germans about the game beforehand is the exact version you will receive. Nowhere in the product description does it say that the game features a 256 color Adolf portrait.

 

[BjornB]

I don't want to belittle the concerns there is around this. But somehow it feels strange that we would need to put up a big warning sign that we are not selling you illegal content :/

 

[BjornB]

I don't want to be disrespectful. I will contact the sales people to see if there is any way of getting some sort of notification up. But I just think it's not strange that there is not a notification.

I will lock this thread now as it, as all other threads are going into the same old subjects again...