Contents of the boxed UK editions

[oscar19681]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

The UK version comes with a signed picture of Neal:

Lol!

[JScones]

Originally Posted by Turbografx

How will UBI prevent people from extracting the "exclusive" sub-skins? After all, this was easy with 3/4 and 5 is supposed to be easier still to mod.

Or, perhaps more to the point, will the integration of these "limited edition" units affect moddability? That is, will modders with the limited edition have to always remember to remove references to the exclusive units before they release their mods, considering that most players will just have the standard edition?

Will modders without the limited edition units effectively mute them because mods they release won't consider, or include, the limited edition units?

Will releasing mods based on the limited edition crash for players without the limited edition because they don't have the units installed?

Will someone inadvertently release the limited edition units to everyone in a mod, thus making their exclusivity only temporary, and thus expensive?

[piri_reis]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

I don't know... what restriction are you talking about? You mean people outside of the US can't buy a download version? Isn't there a D2D version for Europe?

By restrictions I mean, it says this product is only sold in US and Canada.
There are 2 versions at UBI digital store, one a regular Download and the other the Gold Edition Download. Both have them say only for US/Can.

I might be missing something, because this doesn't sound logical, a download version should be available to purchase from anywhere in the world. Let me check again.

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by piri_reis

I might be missing something, because this doesn't sound logical, a download version should be available to purchase from anywhere in the world.

There's different laws covering different parts of the world. You can't have the Nazi flag in an 'entertainment product' unless it is a historical documentary in Europe. In the US you can, so their ships will have the Nazi flag on them and the Europe version won't. There's also the other reason of charging $40 for one region, €40 for another, £40 for a third and AUS $80 for a fourth region.

[piri_reis]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

There's different laws covering different parts of the world. You can't have the Nazi flag in an 'entertainment product' unless it is a historical documentary in Europe.

Right, I forgot about the Nazi stuff.
Hmm, so it looks like no download option for Europe.. If anybody comes across this, please post.

[Sky999]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

There's different laws covering different parts of the world. You can't have the Nazi flag in an 'entertainment product' unless it is a historical documentary in Europe. In the US you can, so their ships will have the Nazi flag on them and the Europe version won't. There's also the other reason of charging $40 for one region, €40 for another, £40 for a third and AUS $80 for a fourth region.

Hang on a second, there is no law in the UK that says you can't have a swastika included with entertainment products. So we can't say for sure that every other country in Europe, unlike the UK, has laws saying you can't either.

From my knowledge it is Germany where this is most prevelant and I'm sure in other european countries, but the UK is a part of Europe where I am certain there is no law saying we can't have swastikas in games.

In saying this, I'm going to be really annoyed if I buy my UK edition and find out that the swastika has been removed out of political correctness.

Political correctness = historical innaccuracy.

[Nisgeis]

UK doesn't have a ban, but other countries in the EU do, as you say. Modern games tend to be be packaged for markets, like US/Canada, Europe and AsiaPac and have the same content - e.g. manuals (or leaflets) in multiple languages, so they can ship them anywhere within that market. It helps to reduce cost, as you don't need to produce as many versions. I may be wrong, but I think SH5 in the UK, will not have a swastika in it. The UK version of SH3 didn't have it - the Bismark had just a red strip with a white circle, sort of made it look like an inverse japanese flag. There were mods made to re-introduce them.

[jwilliams]

My SH3 (european version) didnt have swastika's well not until GWX put them back in

It weird in NZ sometimes we get the US version and othertimes the european version. So I never truely know what im getting.

[Sky999]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

UK doesn't have a ban, but other countries in the EU do, as you say. Modern games tend to be be packaged for markets, like US/Canada, Europe and AsiaPac and have the same content - e.g. manuals (or leaflets) in multiple languages, so they can ship them anywhere within that market. It helps to reduce cost, as you don't need to produce as many versions. I may be wrong, but I think SH5 in the UK, will not have a swastika in it. The UK version of SH3 didn't have it - the Bismark had just a red strip with a white circle, sort of made it look like an inverse japanese flag. There were mods made to re-introduce them.

Sigh, now have to pretend the nazis didn't exist and instead we were fighting the 'Inverted Japanese Alliance'.

[dogshu]

Did any of Silent Hunter 3, Silent Hunter 4, or the U-Boat missions expansions have swastikas, in any edition? Not that I recall, as a matter of fact I'm using a swastika mod in my current US version SH4/Op Monsun installation right now.