The Romanian game store fiasco...

[dcb]

I can confirm this. Nowhere to buy SH5 in Bucharest. Even the online stores seem to totally ignore the game. No possibility to preorder, nothing at all. It's like it never existed, in its home country.

To the Ubi marketing guys: Where can Romanians buy your products? Did you ever try to approach the (very few) game stores existing here to sell your game? Supermarkets have shelves of console games on display, there's plenty of the latest EA games, even Mass Effect 2 was on sale the week it launched abroad, only Ubi Romania seems give a s**t about customers at home. Inept marketing (I think it's the third time I'm complaining on this forum about this specific issue, but to no avail).

[alexradu89]

what about steam ? don't they service in romania ? :S

[dcb]

Originally Posted by alexradu89

what about steam ? don't they service in romania ? :S

They may have, but some of us don't have cards in foreign currency. They are rather expensive, at the rates charged by banks here. And not everybody's willing to open a card in euros or dollars only to buy games, once or twice a year.

[elanaiba]

Actually, you don't need cards in foreign currency to buy stuff on steam or online. Your regular debit card should work, provided its a Visa or Mastercard.

[martes86]

Arg... why do we always get delays?? One store says it gets here in Spain the 11th.

Can any of you guys tell me if it comes with a Spanish version (texts, installer)? I'll be damned if the game comes the same in all places, but there's a useless delay in Spain that nobody can explain.

[dcb]

Originally Posted by elanaiba

Actually, you don't need cards in foreign currency to buy stuff on steam or online. Your regular debit card should work, provided its a Visa or Mastercard.

Yes, I admit it's the most natural thing in the world. Being in Romania and ordering from the US a game made in Romania.

[Schultz]

I don't have a credit card my father has, but the problem is that I saved the money for the game cash.

[elanaiba]

Let me get back to work and I'll see what I can do for you guys.

[FIREWALL]

Originally Posted by martes86

Arg... why do we always get delays?? One store says it gets here in Spain the 11th.

Can any of you guys tell me if it comes with a Spanish version (texts, installer)? I'll be damned if the game comes the same in all places, but there's a useless delay in Spain that nobody can explain.

While I installed in default english, in the Credits it showed US , German, French, Polish and..... SPANISH.


ps. When installing it gave me language choices.

[temiri]

Originally Posted by elanaiba

Let me get back to work and I'll see what I can do for you guys.

To start you could donate your copy while adressing the matter to PR

[FIREWALL]

Originally Posted by temiri

To start you could donate your copy while adressing the matter to PR

First post and wants to be a comedian.

Welcome Aboard temiri

[Schultz]

We forgot to tell you that we want to buy the Collectors Edition

[karamazovnew]

Yeap, we want the metal box . No really, that's the only reason I'm not buying it from Steam. I can't play it these days anyway. Some of my pipes cracked, I flooded my neighbours, not funny... Lot of work to repair the damage (meaning loooots of waiting for the plumber). When I get it I want to fill up on Coca Cola, 20 packs of Dunhill Red and then wohooooo 70 hours without sleep . So yeah, I want the box.

Look, ok, were pirating here games like there's no tomorrow and we'd rather play WoW and CounterStrike instead of a good sim. But still, at the moment, this the only gaming dev team that bears our flag. Not even listing the game in stores is a poor show. Not sure if the stores were scared about unsold copies or Ubi decided to delay release here or scratched the Bentley of some politician...I don't really care. I just wanted to share this with the community as a sign of support to the devs. Not to complain that I didn't get to buy a copy BEFORE the official release date.

I see that many can't believe that the devs themselves haven't yet received a hard-copy. It's actually quite simple. The disks are not printed here! I think they're made in Canada. The global Ubi marketing decisions are also not made here. So, the devs finish the game, and send it for printing. The first batches come out, the Canadians and Americans get it first simply for being closest. Then the shipments start to cross the Atlantic and reach Amsterdam, then the UK, then the rest. 2 weeks later, the devs finally get the boxes and start using them for door-stops. Easy geography.

Originally Posted by elanaiba

Let me get back to work and I'll see what I can do for you guys.

Dan, really, you're a gem . I owe you a beer just for being here with us

[martes86]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

While I installed in default english, in the Credits it showed US , German, French, Polish and..... SPANISH.


ps. When installing it gave me language choices.

Thanks for the info.
That says 2 things. The game comes out in Spanish without the need for us to translate the whole thing (which is good), but at the same time it also gives out that no matter where you get it, it will be multilingual, which means that the delay is basically useless, and they've fooled us again, which I don't like a bit.

Cheers

[capthelm]

Originally Posted by karamazovnew

C'mon, I don't have he nerve to bother them with such a thing.

( @ Dan)


Anyway, that wasn't the issue. Even if I had 10 copies since February 20th, I would've still wrote the OP.

thats a good idea bake some cake take it over ..ya never know get a DRM copy free version mmmm