It says right there in their statement that the plan only ever affected boxed PC versions, NOT digital or console versions. So no, the digital versions are fine and always were fine.
I’ll definitely wait until people have successfully activated their boxed and/or unboxed UK copies before I buy this game. No way I’m playing Eidos’ stupid “guess which edition is region-locked right now!” game.
Damn, that was a quick u-turn indeed. I’m not entirely convinced though so I’ll be waiting as well.
See? That’s what I thought! :)
Also, to answer my own earlier question, it sounds like the review embargo is Tuesday, so those folks who were going wait on a review from their favorite site(s) to pre-order will be SOL. LAME.
Why would the embargo be the day OF release? Why not the weekend before? I don’t get it. Hopefully the information I have is just wrong.
To protect whoever has the exclusive first review? I see a lot of games that don’t have reviews go up until the day of release.
Giaddon
1646
It’s so people can’t cancel their pre-order if the word is bad.
I suppose that must be true, such a weird world. I know several magazines have already published reviews, but that was a long time ago.
That’s very unlikely the case. The reviews to date have been VERY positive, and the publisher is likey aware of that, so I don’t think this is like when a movie doesn’t get a screening or something like that. Anything is possible though, I guess, but I’d have thought Eidos would have been all over getting the positive reviews out to PUSH pre-orders.
Giaddon
1648
I meant for review embargoes/game releases in general, not just this particular case. And I don’t think they’re going to change that pattern just for one game. (That is, I suspect it’s Square-Enix-Eidos policy to allow reviews on the date of release).
Review embargo? There is already several reviews of the game!
Oxm, Opm, PcGamer, GamesMaster, Play4, Pelaja and Pelit. (91% average)
There is a review embargo for the digital sites, such as IGN, Gamespot, etc. The reviews you cited are all print magazines (well, I assume Palaja and Pelit are).
I’m not sure it’d matter if they were. My understanding is that there’s a certain tendency among some of the European sites to break embargo. That’s based entirely on hearsay and my crappy recollection, though.
Metacritic has review scores, but I’ve yet to see a full text review that I can read online.
Is there any good reason not to get this game on PC if your PC can run it? Using the 20% off coupon code at greenmangaming.com (20PEC-TWEET-SAVER!) I can get the regular edition for $32.00 as opposed to the $59.99 I’m going to pay for the (reportedly inferior) 360 version at Amazon.
All signs seem to point towards the PC version being the way to go, and at nearly half the price it should be doubly so.
My Core 2 Quad 6600 and Radeon HD 6870 should definitely be able to handle the game and it sounds like it’s better all the way around on PC. It’s hard to argue that the comfy couch, bigger screen and surround sound setup I have with my 360 is worth spending $28 extra for a lesser version of the game.
Gendal
1657
I jumped on the greenmangaming deal too. I was briefly worried after the region thing but it looks like that was really never an issue to begin with, and double so now that there will be zero region locking on any edition.
I went ahead and bought the regular edition through greenman for $34 and canceled my $59.99 360 preorder at Amazon. Hopefully all the region locking shenanigans are truly ironed out given that greenman is in the UK and I’m in the U.S.
Otagan
1659
The region locking shenanigans never applied to digital sales in the first place, only physical copies. Most of the people making a big deal out of it (not here, but the ones elsewhere on the net that turned it into a debacle) didn’t bother to read the actual text of the region locking announcement.
Greenman is digital, and digital was regionlock-free always. The idiotic shenanigans only applied to boxed version.
So to summarize, thanks to Squeenix’s idiocy, I canceled augmented game.co.uk preorder that I had there for last 8 months. I ordered normal version in a local shop. And today I canceled this normal version and re-preordered the augmented game.co.uk one.
What a hassle, but at least I will get the augmented version that I wanted in the first place. And if they, spaghetti monster forbid, change their mind again and reintroduce the region lock (thus rendering my augmented version nonworking), I will simply get functional version “somewhere else”.
