That I will, thanks.Castellon said:
But I have plain english XP and the game runs ?
The only copy protection I saw was intended to prevent non-russian speakers from installing the game.
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But I have plain english XP and the game runs ?
The only copy protection I saw was intended to prevent non-russian speakers from installing the game.
I thought the fact that it does not run properly is the problem.
I think that versions requires Cylic (sp) version of windows.
Do you live in Russia?
I think that versions requires Cylic (sp) version of windows.
Do you live in Russia?
I live in Belarus and I have english version of winXP. If I had a russian windows the DirectX report would be in russian too. Snowball had enough brains not to translate the game so its english also.
I think the game ran properly on my previous PC that had winME (also enlish version), I seriously doubt that it checks the language settings, but I'll clear this out with snowball.
It is my understanding that it in fact does.
You see the game is sold way underprice in Russia and is for the Russian market only, in order to ensure those copies are not purchased cheap and then sold outside Russia it performs about 3 different checks including the language one.
You see the game is sold way underprice in Russia and is for the Russian market only, in order to ensure those copies are not purchased cheap and then sold outside Russia it performs about 3 different checks including the language one.
Okay here is the quote I was looking for it is from Sergei and referes to HOI but I assume the same applies to Victoria.
sergei said:Comrades,
It's been reported to our Bureau that some of the adventurous souls outside of the united and undivided Soviet Union have entertained a vague thought of ordering HOI English (known as ORIGINALS edition in our lands) from a Russian online store at a ridiculously low price.
Thereby, our comments follow:
1) yes it is out
2) yes retails at less than in Europe or US
3) to install the game, users must:
a) have Russian Windows (this is checked)
b) have Cyrillic font installed
c) be proficient in Russian language to answer the randomly generated question in Russian since both Q&A are in Russian
c) have Russian keyboard to be able to type in the answer as it requires entering special symbols
4) furthermore, the ORIGINALS version has big letters FOR SALE IN RUSSIA ONLY on both CD and jewel cover so should Ozon etc. attempt to ship it internationally, we will delete them from list of dealers same week after we have that confirmed.
But in the big way the above is really not important.
What is important is that the game costs less in Russia because on average our players earn $400 a month or less. Charging them 1/10 of monthly income for a game would be too cruel (though EA and the other big companies try to do it). Not releasing the game on the market would be plain throwing the fans into the embrace of pirates. Thus the lower-than-European price.
If you take advantage of this (going to considerable effort to hack the Russian protection), all this can possibly result in is that Russian players won't have sim release of the next game from Paradox because Paradox will not let us release it here at a lower price due to re-exports. This would be sad because then we will have to get the tanks out of garage and invade Scandinavia.
Do not hijack this thread with your problem.samy8905 said:
If you are having problems, then start your own thread and I will be happy to help!
i do understand the marketing reasons, but I assure you - CK does work on my PC and so does Victoria (I am not the only person having CTD problems). The 40 euro european version crashes too
Yes I did download a pirate deviance copy to test it. Don't kill me for this please.
Um yes we sort of do!Adahn said:Yes I did download a pirate deviance copy to test it. Don't kill me for this please.
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