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    Fallout: New Vegas

    Game » consists of 25 releases. Released Oct 19, 2010

    The post-apocalyptic Fallout universe expands into Nevada in this new title in the franchise. As a courier once left for dead by a mysterious man in a striped suit, the player must now set out to find their assailant and uncover the secrets of the enigmatic ruler of New Vegas.

    Steam are ASSHOLES

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    wealllikepie

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    #1  Edited By wealllikepie

    OK, so I get on the new vegas page today on steam, and I see that it unlocks in 3 hours. Deciding that it has the 360 achievements anyways through windows live, plus snatching the pre-order bonus along the way, I get the pre-order expecting to start on the game in no time. However, when there's 2 hours left, Steam SUDDENLY announces that the game is unlocked on the 22nd, which is 3 DAYS FROM NOW. SO, BESIDES THE SALES, WHO AGREES WITH ME THAT STEAM ARE ASSHOLES

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    #2  Edited By manhattan_project

    No.

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    #3  Edited By mesklinite

    you can ask for a refund.
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    #5  Edited By Garfield518

    It unlocks on the 22nd because you're in Europe, Valve is simply following the actual release date.
     
    It unlocks on the 19th in North America, however.

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    #6  Edited By CptChiken

    Not really, you can just get a refund.

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    #7  Edited By wealllikepie
    @Garfield518: :(
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    #8  Edited By benjaebe

    Still says the 19th for me, but I'm in NA. Maybe it's different elsewhere?

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    #9  Edited By ryanwho

    Hopefully one day the retailers will have to catch up with the digital distributors, instad of places like Steam having to retard their release dates so WalMart has a chance to sell some copies.

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    #10  Edited By Lukeweizer
    @wealllikepie: Can't you just cancel?
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    #11  Edited By wealllikepie
    @Lukeweizer: well yea, but i mean ill buy the game either way, so i guess ill wait and get that pre-order bonus
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    #12  Edited By FritzDude

    22nd? thats Europe's release date on steam. If you live in the US, then you should be able to get it tomorrow.

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    #13  Edited By NekuSakuraba

    Isn't the game using steamworks? Meaning you must use Steam with the game?

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    #14  Edited By wealllikepie

    also, since this question is related to the issue, is there any way to trick steam into thinking that im living in america, because i also wanted to buy civ5 on steam, but i missed the original date of release, and now they took it off european steam :(

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    #15  Edited By Sorrowsan

    Those fiendish rogues! how dare they!

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    #16  Edited By BraveToaster

    Over-react much?

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    #17  Edited By FancySoapsMan

    I don't get it. Why can't you just wait for the 22nd?

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    #18  Edited By wealllikepie
    @FancySoapsMan: i will, but i just wanted to get it on release date
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    #19  Edited By Genjai
    @Manhattan_Project said:
    " No. "
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    #20  Edited By Drakhir
    Steam time is different.
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    #21  Edited By probablytuna

    Calm down, just play Fallout 3 for the next three days before New Vegas comes out for the rest of the world. If that's not enough to ease your Fallout addiction then play Fallout and Fallout 2 as well. I know I will be doing this.

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    #22  Edited By Brians
    @wealllikepie:  you want it on north American release date? then move here.
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    #23  Edited By SaFt
    @wealllikepie:  Somehow i doubt it's the steam guys fault that it's being pushed back.
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    #24  Edited By Forcen

    Saying "Steam are assholes" is like saying "Windows XP are assholes" or "iTunes are assholes."

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    #25  Edited By WinterSnowblind

    They also just announced that the DLC is exclusive to the 360.
    Blame that on them as well?

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    #26  Edited By LiquidPenguins

    To answer the Civ 5 question, you can have someone in the US buy it and then gift it to you. This would also work with fallout if you wanted to get that early.

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    @Manhattan_Project said:
    " No. "
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    #28  Edited By gamer_152  Moderator

    Firstly, I think you mean the people behind Steam, Steam is a piece of software run by Valve, not a group of people. Secondly, it's extremely unlikely Valve pushed back the release and thirdly even if it was their fault they've done so much awesome stuff with Steam this one event doesn't make them assholes.

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    #29  Edited By RobReindl

    Sorry, I actually like Steam.

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    #30  Edited By HiraH4x

    I only have one thing to say: Valve Time
     
     http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time

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    #31  Edited By swamplord666

    so you're whining on here, when people offer advice, you say you're buying it anyway and thus not needing input. i have no sympathy for you. Take a chillpill and wait. 

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    #32  Edited By huntad

    I agree that I would start cursing up a storm, but I would eventually get my money back if I could get it earlier somewhere else. No use blaming steam for following the release date.

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    #33  Edited By PixieNinja
    @wealllikepie: Civ V is still up on steam in EU - check out the top sellers list in Steam, or head here.
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    #34  Edited By flaminghobo
    @wealllikepie:  By the way, New Vegas doesn't have GFWL achievements. It has Steam achievements.
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    #35  Edited By Jikla

    I don't get how you're not used to waiting for games when you live in Europe.I have waited for many games longer than 3 days to get to the EU because of the friggin translations for French, German or what the heck they're delaying the games for. I think I did wait 4 months for super smash brawl, 5 months for final fantasy x, about 6 months for Kingdom hearts 1 and 2 to get released in the EU. And you're whining about 3 days...*sigh*

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    #36  Edited By TorMasturba
    @wealllikepie said:
    " OK, so I get on the new vegas page today on steam, and I see that it unlocks in 3 hours. Deciding that it has the 360 achievements anyways through windows live, plus snatching the pre-order bonus along the way, I get the pre-order expecting to start on the game in no time. However, when there's 2 hours left, Steam SUDDENLY announces that the game is unlocked on the 22nd, which is 3 DAYS FROM NOW. SO, BESIDES THE SALES, WHO AGREES WITH ME THAT STEAM ARE ASSHOLES "
    Should've done some research, this information has been freely available for a few months now. 
    Any tough luck speech aside, I'd hate to expect it for a certain date and be rejected from getting it. 
    Sorry brother, but chin up we'll both be getting it in the same day. :-) Hope you enjoy it too.
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    #37  Edited By Bones8677
    @wealllikepie said:
    " also, since this question is related to the issue, is there any way to trick steam into thinking that im living in america, because i also wanted to buy civ5 on steam, but i missed the original date of release, and now they took it off european steam :( "
    I'm gonna say that that would be a bad idea even if you could. Unless you have an American credit card, you'll be paying for the game with Euros or whatever monopoly money you guys use.  jk.  So it would be pointless to switch to the American store if you're not going to be paying with Dollars. 
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    #38  Edited By Spwn
    @wealllikepie said:
    " also, since this question is related to the issue, is there any way to trick steam into thinking that im living in america, because i also wanted to buy civ5 on steam, but i missed the original date of release, and now they took it off european steam :( "
    What? You can still buy Civilization V from Steam, just search it. And if you try buying games through a proxy to trick steam into thinking you're in America, your account will most likely get banned.
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    #39  Edited By TorMasturba
    @wealllikepie said:
    " also, since this question is related to the issue, is there any way to trick steam into thinking that im living in america, because i also wanted to buy civ5 on steam, but i missed the original date of release, and now they took it off european steam :( "
    What are you talking about? I live in the UK and I can plainly see that Civ 5 is on the cloud slidy thingy on their first online store page.
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    #40  Edited By Seedofpower
    @wealllikepie said:
    "  Deciding that it has the 360 achievements anyways through windows live,  "
    Incorrect. Different devs and they decided to drop GWFL and go for steam.
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    #41  Edited By JamesBoyce

    Be patient, mate.

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    #42  Edited By Hunkulese
    @wealllikepie said:
    " OK, so I get on the new vegas page today on steam, and I see that it unlocks in 3 hours. Deciding that it has the 360 achievements anyways through windows live, plus snatching the pre-order bonus along the way, I get the pre-order expecting to start on the game in no time. However, when there's 2 hours left, Steam SUDDENLY announces that the game is unlocked on the 22nd, which is 3 DAYS FROM NOW. SO, BESIDES THE SALES, WHO AGREES WITH ME THAT STEAM ARE ASSHOLES "
    Shit is really going to hit the fan when you find out it doesn't have 360 achievements.
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    #43  Edited By ToastMan

    The point that the OP was trying to make was that even though he's not from the U.S, Steam decided to show him the American release date instead of the european one. By doing that, Steam is knowingly misleading non-U.S customers into preloading the game from them and thus, not buying it elsewhere where they might get it sooner.
    This is a pretty low move. They know from where this customer is logging in from and so, there's no reason for them not show the correct date for that region. 
     
    I feel ya dude. I fell for the same move with this game and also Borderlands when it came out. Pretty damn frustrating.

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    #44  Edited By Stew

    I would say it was "knowingly" probably just an oversight. Even Valve screws up from time to time.

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    #45  Edited By infininja
    @ToastMan said:
    " The point that the OP was trying to make was that even though he's not from the U.S, Steam decided to show him the American release date instead of the european one. By doing that, Steam is knowingly misleading non-U.S customers into preloading the game from them and thus, not buying it elsewhere where they might get it sooner. This is a pretty low move. They know from where this customer is logging in from and so, there's no reason for them not show the correct date for that region.    I feel ya dude. I fell for the same move with this game and also Borderlands when it came out. Pretty damn frustrating. "
    I don't think you can make that conclusion.
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    #46  Edited By ToastMan
    @Infininja said:
    " @ToastMan said:
    " The point that the OP was trying to make was that even though he's not from the U.S, Steam decided to show him the American release date instead of the european one. By doing that, Steam is knowingly misleading non-U.S customers into preloading the game from them and thus, not buying it elsewhere where they might get it sooner. This is a pretty low move. They know from where this customer is logging in from and so, there's no reason for them not show the correct date for that region.    I feel ya dude. I fell for the same move with this game and also Borderlands when it came out. Pretty damn frustrating. "
    I don't think you can make that conclusion. "
    No, you're right, I can't make that conclusion. But you don't need any knowledge in programming to know that this sort of thing should be fully automated. 
    1. Valve inputs release dates; one for each region.
    2. System figures out from where the person is logging in from and automatically presents the correct date for his region.
     
    Valve is a buisness, and like all buisnesses they might bend the rules a bit here and there.
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    #47  Edited By fentonalpha

    Sooooo.... hypothetically..... if one was to use a british or Australian proxy could you unlock the game early?

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    #48  Edited By Daryl

    Condensation is the real enemy.

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    #49  Edited By Krakn3Dfx
    @wealllikepie said:
    " Deciding that it has the 360 achievements anyways through windows live"
     
     
    It has Steam achievements, it's not a GFWL game like Fallout 3 was.
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    #50  Edited By Romination

    Steam is not a person or group of people. Steam is a service offered to you free from Valve and calling it an asshole is like calling a garbage can a mother fucker. 

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