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[PATV] Monday, August 26, 2013 - CheckPoint Season 3, Ep. 11: Plants vs. Productivity
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[PATV] Monday, August 26, 2013 - CheckPoint Season 3, Ep. 11: Plants vs. Productivity
Humans love Plants vs. Zombies. But couldn't we be doing something better with our time?
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I'm pretty sure it's not "England"s fault, it's either the publisher (Deep Silver) or Valve who has wrangled that one.
Also:
England is a part of the UK, yes, but England != UK.
UK is a part of EU, yes, but UK != EU.
Not having a physical release in England != Not having a physical release in EU, but historically the whole of EU (including the UK) have had the same release dates, and I have a feeling that's the issue.
When someone pens a deal for an "EU release date", it likely covers the entire EU. So as more and more games go digital we are likely to find that if just one country in the EU is getting a physical release, the entire EU release will be held back. And even if that's not the case, they'll still likely try to get all the different platform releases out at the same time, so as long as XBOX/PS/Wii has a physical release, the digital one for PC will be delayed.
So yay that. Or something.
TLDR; This issue is not going away any time soon, and we'll see a lot more of it.
@Swissmatt He didn't specify it well but I think he's only talking about a PC release. You likely bought it for a console, yes?
Which we understand.
What we said was "Europe", not the EU. England is still part of Europe (much as I'm sure you'd like to pretend not to be sometimes).
Anyway, I hope we help to raise notice of this issue for those outside the borders of Europe. Because it's insane.
Don't go believing every rumor you hear in the internet
England (as a part of the UK) is both a part of the EU (European Union) and Europe (the continent), so we can add even more silliness there.
The term "EU" is often used to describe the launch region of Europe though, and the UK is a part of that as you say. Since they are rarely seperated for game launch purposes, I guess I was just confused as to which you actually meant were not getting it; UK or the whole of Europe.
Btw. I am not English, I'm Danish. Just trying to clear it up a bit.
In any case I am quite happy you brought it up, because it is indeed silly! I just doubt we'll see any changes to it "because paper work" -_-
@Kakou%20Onkei I think the problem is that the LRR crew forgot to mention that the story is about the PC release of the game. As far as I know, the console versions were always coming to the UK in physical form, but not the PC version. Am I mistaken?
(if you did and I somehow didn't notice, I'm sorry)
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Another great episode !
Maybe a bit short sighted, but hardly nefarious. "Forcing" people to wait a few days for a game is nothing compared to the price gouging some of these countries are subject too.
"Ah...dude-man my game's now mainstream, this SUCKS...it's played out man, time to move on...."
If you're actually interested you can read his own words here http://notch.tumblr.com/
Either way, pretentious hipster or not, it's pretty pathetic to throw it all away b/c you don't like being paid attention to and having fans.
You're of course entitled to your oppinion - just trying to clear up the basis you form it on.
BTW: does this make up for watching LRR content for like 5 years and never buying DVDs, T-Shirts or other murch? I mean it it was like $10.