Impulse - Please get rid of that stupid region limitation

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Getting this way to often in Impulse (in fact on EVERY game I would like):

Sorry, this item is not available in your region.

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Carl...that's entirely outside of SD's control.

BTW...if anyone 'over there' would like to send me that Starship Troopers game I'd appreciate it....it's a prohibited import in Australia....even Amazon does that same dummy spit 'sorry this item is not availabel...etc..."

The A triple C [in Oz] determined that region coding was/is a restriction of trade and outlawed it in Oz...which is fine except that the stuff it affects is outside their control anyway....the restrictive practices are a world wide issue that no individual Gov't can deal with on its own....and certainly a single distributor has no chance.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

prohibited import in Australia
End of quote

I dont know much about world trade laws...why would a game be 'prohibited import'?

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I know that there is such a thing for music also, go figure... Don't know if anyone knows Beatport here...

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Okay, I don't work for SD, but it's always been my understanding that this is not a legal issue in the sense that Jafo means; it's a question of the contractual agreement between the publisher and the distributor.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

So what sense does it have to lock europeans out in certain cases ? I really would have liked to purchase C&C 4 via Stardock...

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Region limitations...as in DVD Region Coding is well and truly outside of 'our' control.

Games can be subject to similar distribution limitations...and in the case of censorship classifications causing the restriction they are again outside of 'the little people's' control.

Example.  Australia does not have an adult classification for games...so...if something is deemed to be 'adult' in content then it will not be available to anyone, anywhere within Australia.

Anything with fascist/nazi content is prohibited in Germany....same deal....it's available in other countries.

Never confuse the Global nature of the Internet and it's seeming liberal intercourse with some ideal of Global touchy-feely free world market.

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That's bad. :-( At least I understand now.