Good day to you, foreign gamers.
I'm from Russia, as you know it's that country with snow, bears, and vodka.
I just decided to stop by and share with you the situation with the game BattleForge that we have here in Russia.
Those of you who plays BattleForge know that the contens of the game are: 4 starter decks and 3000 Battlrforge Point, right? Well, nope, wrong. At least in my country.
Several days ago I bought a DVD-box of the game for 899 rubles (approx $26). I was more than surprised when I discovered that in game I have only 1 (one) deck. Wtf, I said, and called the EARussia tech-support. 'Yes', they told me, 'there is such problem (!), but we are solving it as we speak'. Hooray, I said and started waiting. While doing so I have been looking through BattleForge forums and found out that all (!) Russian players, who had bought either DVD or jewel edition of the game have this problem.
Two days later we got this:
Ok, let me clarify this one. Russian players who are buying localized version of Battleforge (DVD or JC editions) receive 1 base deck from random Power. For BattleForge EA has consistent policy in terms of price of BF points and cards, but, as Russian market conditions differ from EU or US, we have opted for a special version of the game.
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Dmitry Polyakov, Online Community Manager Russia, Electronic Arts Russia
Woah, now. So, EA thinks that they can do this without telling their customers about it? Really nice and fair. At first it was a problem, and now it's a special policy towards russian customers?
'Hey', you, american and european gamers, can say,'We pay $50/€50 for our copy of the game, and you pay just $26! Shut up and go ride a bear, damn commie!'. Well, I would, but... Actually, any russian is able to buy an electornic version of the game for the same 899 rubles and get the very same 4 decks and 3000 point you guys are given. It's magic I suppose, for there is no logical explanation for this.
We, those who got ripped off, are uniting and going to sue EA if they won't give us our decks back or compensate their absence in any other way.
For more info: http://forums.battleforge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6562
I just wanted to let you know, thank you for you time.
From Russia with love,
Wyldyr
I'm from Russia, as you know it's that country with snow, bears, and vodka.
I just decided to stop by and share with you the situation with the game BattleForge that we have here in Russia.
Those of you who plays BattleForge know that the contens of the game are: 4 starter decks and 3000 Battlrforge Point, right? Well, nope, wrong. At least in my country.
Several days ago I bought a DVD-box of the game for 899 rubles (approx $26). I was more than surprised when I discovered that in game I have only 1 (one) deck. Wtf, I said, and called the EARussia tech-support. 'Yes', they told me, 'there is such problem (!), but we are solving it as we speak'. Hooray, I said and started waiting. While doing so I have been looking through BattleForge forums and found out that all (!) Russian players, who had bought either DVD or jewel edition of the game have this problem.
Two days later we got this:
Ok, let me clarify this one. Russian players who are buying localized version of Battleforge (DVD or JC editions) receive 1 base deck from random Power. For BattleForge EA has consistent policy in terms of price of BF points and cards, but, as Russian market conditions differ from EU or US, we have opted for a special version of the game.
__________________
Dmitry Polyakov, Online Community Manager Russia, Electronic Arts Russia
Woah, now. So, EA thinks that they can do this without telling their customers about it? Really nice and fair. At first it was a problem, and now it's a special policy towards russian customers?
'Hey', you, american and european gamers, can say,'We pay $50/€50 for our copy of the game, and you pay just $26! Shut up and go ride a bear, damn commie!'. Well, I would, but... Actually, any russian is able to buy an electornic version of the game for the same 899 rubles and get the very same 4 decks and 3000 point you guys are given. It's magic I suppose, for there is no logical explanation for this.
We, those who got ripped off, are uniting and going to sue EA if they won't give us our decks back or compensate their absence in any other way.
For more info: http://forums.battleforge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6562
I just wanted to let you know, thank you for you time.
From Russia with love,
Wyldyr
