It is and was the same for other Bethesda games like Dishonored but now i looked and it not named RU like before but RHCP but i still see other languages in steam settings. And those Bethesda games wasn't counted on SG to account value when registering.
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They aren't counted towards your account value as the sites uses the US store pricing where these versions aren't available and as such ahve no price.
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It could be just a rename, the language options are still present within the game.
However in some cases there are language restricted copies. Not common, but happens. Hate these language restrictions. Like players from different countries didn't enjoy to play in the original language (that is usually english) or a different one.
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I think it is stupid they don't include all languages to begin with. My native language is Dutch but I prefer all my computer software to be in English.
Not that this example matters in this particular case, but if you have multiple translations for a game just add them all.
Why would you even need a language restriction if there is already a regional restriction?
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Not the case here but licensing. That's often why games don't include Japanese localizations even when they are technically available.
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Nice I activated the game years ago and now I got FNV RU. I'm from the Netherlands...
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Mine hasn't changed. Maybe they were the same as mine? I don't have Russian either.
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WTF? My Fallout: New Vegas even disappeared from my inventory library on steam. Just DLCs are there. :(
Edit: it is there but the link to store page says that it is not available in my country. Store page of the game doesn't know I own it. I can install it, though when I click on the install icon in the list of my owned games. :/
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Most definitely contact Steam support. Purchased items disappearing without any reason is definitely not cool, not to mention I am somewhat sure it is not even legal…
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Library =/= Inventory ;)
I can install it, though when I click on the install icon in the list of my owned games.
Yeah, I can also still see it in your Library. The Store page showing it as not owned should be related to the different versions.
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Np. Normally I wouldn't even point it out but the Library / Inventory thing seems to be a very common mixup and can cause a bit of confusion sometime ;)
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Yeah, I am so shocked of this afair that I even cannot think properly. :/
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Yeah, I know that feeling. While most people here on SG probably would't expect that I can be quite choleric at times and often when my technical equipment decides to troll me again I get so angry I can't think properly. Sometimes once I have calmed down the solution is pretty obvious ^^
But don't worry so far they haven't stolen your game yet :D It's "just" the usual regional version BS ;)
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I also don't understand the logic of Bethesda. I live in the Czech Republic and
- It is central Europe, not eastern.
- Russia is somewhere else, we even don't have borders in common. Even our eastern neighbor Slovakia doesn't have borders with them.
- (Almost) no one learns Russian here.
- We don't have anything in common with Russia.
I guess Geography is not a strong point of Bethesda.
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The real culprit here might be their local distribution partner (if I'm not mistaken)
1C / Cenega (that's why I deleted the last paragraph of my comment because I'm still considering that) but even if that's the case Bethesda should really care more about who they partner up with.
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Their publishers are doing a lot of Sheogorath lately. That being said, CZ region here and I can't see the own tag in my store when I search fro F:NV or F:NV - Ultimate Edition (for some reason I previously had both tagged as owned). But I still have the option to install F:NV (no RUS appeared; got it as a Steam Gift from a friend)
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If you are in CZ, store version would be for RU, thus your row in library won't cause highlight.
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The Madjoki replied to me O:. I actually had problems to buy some Bethesda's games before. Last time it was DLC for Dishonored (kept getting errors during purchase, probably clash between RHCP and ROW versions), after a year it still wasn't fixed, so friend bought it to me. I'm okay with whatever version it activates, as long as it works and has English language :D
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Can you please report what the support replies to your ticket. Thanks in advance :)
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If someone wants help with learning language...
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That's just ridiculous. Language restrictions shouldn't happen retroactively (in fact, they shouldn't happen at all). At least so far I see all 4 languages available (I'm in Russia), I guess I'm among the lucky ones (for now).
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I've seen that they did same bollocks with Dishonored. I refunded it once i've noticed that i have RU tag near my game. Gagh... Sadly i cant do it with New Vegas. Not going to touch it ever now.
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I love how Bethesda treats us Eastern Europeans. Since when is Hungary a russian province?
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Great. Can confirm, I now have Fallout: New Vegas RU in my steam library.
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Nope, Dishnonored and New Vegas are actually separate appids and you can own both whereas Skyrim has a Russian Package but maintains the same appid.
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They could always make RU appid and replace old with new tho.
but seriously it's always risk if you buy RU versions and didn't have problem with it until RU was added to name :D
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Sometimes I just think that if Russia, as an entity, just killed itself then the world would be such a better place.
EDIT: I'm making fun of people that blame Russia on a decision that 1C made. Blaming a country for the actions of a single company's actions is dumb. Stop being dumb.
Fuck... mine's RU as well now. Jesus fucking Christ...
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I think that if you get banned for this post, Steamgifts would be such a better place. :3
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I mean, if I did, it'd be hilarious because I was being sarcastic. Because of the RU tag behind the new versions of FO:NV, the whole situation is blamed on "Russia". So, if people are reacting in a ridiculous manner, I decided to kick it up a notch.
Plus, what's wrong with erasing a country? Are borders being removed such an awful thing? I mean, that's barbaric, right? :D
This is some top level triggering right there. I mean, I can see the reason if you're a mega nationalist or something. But still, is this the battle you want to pick? A bad joke? :P
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I highly recommend u to delete all your comments in this thread :)
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Why so? Russia is overall disliked in Eastern Europe and making fun of those people is suddenly a bad thing?
I personally don't care for Russia either, but I have no actual negative feelings towards them... I mean, maybe you support the idea of springing hate towards a whole country because of the actions of 1C, but I wouldn't condone that.
But thanks for your passive-aggressive comment. I prefer making fun of idiots through sarcasm.
EDIT: You know what? I give up. Maybe making fun of Russia-haters is a bad thing. I truly do not understand why it's bad, but if it is, it is. Thanks for the blacklist and such.
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Oh, I already had you blacklisted. Well, that's one click saved.
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Was I really not clear enough that I was literally making fun of people that hate on Russia because of things like this?
You can't be that insane as to think that I'd actually condemn a whole country because of the actions of a single publisher?
EDIT: I'll make the comment more clear because it's insane to see how people are so thick that they think a ridiculous stereotype actually exists here.
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Don't worry honey, I already had you blacklisted way before your comment here, so this wasn't the reason; just forget about it.
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Nah, I'm good, yeah. It's fine that I'm blacklisted and all. It's just that the whole comment thing seems to get people confused. Maybe I did something wrong here, that's quite possible as well. But if I did, I have no clue what the mistake might be.
Anyways, I don't want to waste your time any more than I already have.
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Well, tbh your joke was in bad taste and then there's the language barrier and non-verbal communication where jest is not immediately noticeable.
This will cheer you up:
I posted this "( ＾◡＾)っ（。ㅅ 。）" in a boobie themed GA today.
In my messages I received a reply from the creator telling me to grow up and found out I was blacklisted :D
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Fair enough, I guess. I do usually find myself to be the person in most groups that won't take as much seriously as others.
Thanks for the explanation :)
As to your experience... God damn :D
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I'm in Russia and I still have other languages available. The fact I hate is that New Vegas is set as my favorite game in the profile, and now, however patriotic I may be, that 'RU' thingo makes it look totally uncool. I mean, my favorite game is Fallout: New Vegas, not Fallout: New Vegas RU. :/
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Can confirm my library says RU ... idk what to feel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgGzAKP_HuM
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Greetings from Poland!
Game indeed is now listed as Fallout: New Vegas RU, but everything else (instalation, languages, DLCs) hasn't changed at all, at least for me.
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Repository has changed. Previously the game used only .bsa files and now they are merged together with .nam extension files to maintain backward compability. Steam just cheated people who bought Ultimate version by changing ROW to RU/CIS (maybe according to country set in profile or Ip range ). Just select the game and after entering properties click in steamdb link then you'll see the "This game is unavailable in your region". The name was changed to RU but i still can seel appid 22380 there and this is 100% ROW appid because CIS has 22490. Bethesda replied me that it is steam fault and steam support should deal with it.
Zmieniło się całe repozytorium oraz paragony(co powinno być karalne prawnie moim zdaniem). Dodało pliki z rozszerzeniem .nam do plików .bsa. Steam chciał przycebulić i po prostu oszukuje ludzi bo część osób która kupiła wersję Ultimate ma zmieniony appid z ROW na RU/CIS. Widać to jeszcze jak się wejdzie w preferencje i kliknie steam store link bo prowadzi on do wersji 22380 która jest ROW i powinna być poprawna dla całej EU a zablokowana dla RU bo appid RU to 22490. Niestety ktoś coś popsuł a sama Bethesda odcina się od problemu i każe pisać do supportu steam.
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Od kiedy 1C przejęło Cenegę to gry Bethesdy które wydają mają rosyjskie klucze. Jak kupisz np. ROW to nie masz polskiego. Cenega i Bethesda mają to głęboko gdzieś i każą pisać do Steama, ale przecież Steam regionu klucza ci nie zamieni...
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Tylko wiesz ja mam cały czas appid widoczny w zainstalowanej grze pasujacy wg steamdb do ROW które kupiłem i miałem w tym wszystkie jezyki również PL. Niestety teraz repozytoria i czesc linkow prowadzi do 22490. To dowód ze pozmieniali ludziom appid gry tak samo jak dane na rachunkach. Ja jestem jebnięty i zbieram rachunki w pdf w chmurze stąd wiem, że kupiłem ROW a teraz mam CIS oraz, że zmieniła się nazwa i skasowali discount z rachunku co jest wg przepisów podatkowych UE złamaniem prawa ale kto im coś zrobi jak oni w USA. Moje kolejne gry od Bethesdy po tym numerze (to juz 2 raz bo z dishonored bylo dokladnie tak samo) beda z relkow scenowych bo specjalnie kupilem wersje steam za 20 euro a nie RU/CIS na proxy zeby miec wersje ROW i taką miałem jakiś czas.
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Poważnie? Nawet klucze ROW, bo masz polskie konto? Myślałem, że zmieniają tylko CIS i RHCP pod jedną nazwę i id.
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My new vegas from greece remains retail row in my library
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I live in Poland and I still have normal, not RU version.
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You don't have to guess, He does not have FO NV in won games.
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like gonsi said - https://www.steamgifts.com/user/zelghadis/giveaways/won/search?q=fallout
so idk, I don't remember how I got it now, but surely have not won it ;p maybe someone gifted me ROW or I bought it as ROW key somewhere on sale.
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It was RU whole time, i bought it as a gift few years back and it was restricted.
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I traded for it with TF2 keys in 2013 when there was no way to find out whether the game was region locked. Mine now appears as the RU version, is there anything I can do?
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Beyond writing an angry letter to Valve, removing the game from your library, and re-buying the international version and starting the game all over as all your play time and achievements will be reset? No.
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A guy from Russia here. Game has RU in the name, but fortunately still has 4 language options. Rejoice!
This still is a huge dick move towards those who bought the game, especially people like me who prefer their games in original language. So if they would really leave only Russian language option, that would ultimately screw me over, just like Ubisoft did with their latest and future titles looking at you South Park: The Fractured but Whole. There should always be at least two language options: original and localization. And in case the original language isn't English - three.
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Russian and Chinese market tends to have only localised language. Considering both countries are at the tail end of the list of English-speakers by percentage of the population, it is an understandable decision since most buyers would want the local language anyway. Our country had a similar movement in the very early 2000s, then it was given up (mostly because while the dubbing here is legendarily good, game dubs were infamously horrid and cheap).
I agree that it should be possible to get the original and/or English. No matter how we look at it, it is the current lingua franca globally, and video games are surprisingly effective way to learn the basics of a language. (This is why funny enough CS:GO players start to get almost half-decent in basic Russian. :D)
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Our early 2000s localizations were horrid too :D Even if most buyers want only local language, I think it's not a big deal to keep the original too. I'm not very knowledgable in this, but I think that keeping the original files has no affect on the production costs after all. Like, you just localized those files, why not keep them in final version instead of whiping them away?
Lol'd at the CS:GO reference XD Yeah, I totally agree with your every word here.
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It is not just that. Keeping language files there means all audio files and all pre-recorded video files as well. This increases download size. In extreme cases, a language pack go as high as 20 GB (FFXIII). In Russia, it is not a particularly big issue as internet is fast and relatively cheap, but publishers think in CIS region, where only the Baltic countries have decent internet beyond that. (And in case of China, the commercial internet is pretty bad.)
Considering for most buyers the English language pack would be pointless besides Russian, it is more cost-efficient on server bandwidth to keep a fully Russian repo instead of sending over English all the time. That, accumulatively, can be petabytes of data saved yearly.
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Hmm, makes sense. Didn't look at the big picture of the issue.
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…then I hope you speak Russian fluently, because at the latest Steam maintenance phase, the Eastern European version, which offered English, Czech, Polish, and Russian as selectable languages, has magically turned into "Fallout: New Vegas RU" (this is how it shows up in the library now) with Russian as the only language.
Edit: Well, at least for some. Certain users say their version is the same just with the new name, many on the forums say the same, some others on the forum now can only see Russian. Yay for consistency!
https://steamdb.info/app/22490/history/
The funny part is that all the old languages are in there in the repository, they just seem to never download.
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