Why is Singapore region-locked from Steam PoE?

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Mivo wrote:
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Nightmare90 wrote:

The native client isn't region-locked, not even the Garena one. Valve is a publisher. GGG won't be able to make a statement about this as per contract and never officially did.

Everybody with half a brain will be able to fill the blanks.


Why would Valve region-lock the game without a request by GGG? I don't see the motivation.

GGG did make the Singapore gateway invisible, presumably to encourage players from the area to play through GArena. Considering this, it seems more likely that GGG would ask Steam to make the client unavailable in Singapore than that Valve would decide Valve doesn't benefit from this (arguably, they lose money because Singaporean players won't be able to buy stuff with the Steam wallet).

There is only one relevant bit of evidence: GGG made the Singapore gateway invisible. They couldn't block it since they had sold stuff to people from the area before they removed it from the gateway selection (you probably remember the shit storm that even that had caused). You don't need a second half of a brain when half the blanks have already been filled out for you.


Unfortunately, it has happened before, thats why they are asking. They locked russia out of POE for a while due to complying with some local laws. The entire situation was out of GGG's hands as well that time.

Just to clarify, the pure client will NEVER have these kinds of problems, only the steam and garena clients.
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Last edited by tramshed on Aug 28, 2014, 6:15:49 AM
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Deadpeng wrote:
yes it is just to promote bloody Garena. I only play on this international server instead of that hopeless Garena.


+1

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Why are there still retards that still thinks Singapore is part of china? Game region wise it is under south east asia.

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