Can/Will developers prevent the use of VPNs

Atlas23

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Hello all, the use of VPNs to get games (with staggered launch windows in different countries) 'early' seems to be fairly common practice now.

It got me wondering; do you think developers will (if it is possible) start trying to prevent people using VPNs to unlock games early in their country?

Is it considered a serious breach of TOA/law etc by using a VPN to play a game you have paid for early?

e: seems this could fit equally in GD as well as PC games
 
Yeh I figured it would be nigh on impossible to stop, but maybe that it is becoming much more widespread now, developers (or is it up to publishers?) would actually think about having a single release date, instead of delaying it by a few days for certain countries.

I can understand it for games that require translating, but when it is only a couple days apart, what is the point?

Maybe they don't want to overload their servers with everyone downloading the inevitable massive day one update/dlc? :p
 
Aedus said:
The above being said, I think developers may crack down on people buying games via VPN, because it's costing them a lot of money, for example the Mexican origin VPN, where people can get Titanfall for over £10 cheaper than on the UK site.
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Yeh I didn't really think about that.

I'd imagine devs would see that as a bigger 'issue' as people pre-loading a few days early using a VPN have already paid for the game.
 
Longbow said:
Thursday or Friday release date makes more sense since most people have the weekend off.
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I believe his point was that having it release on a Tuesday gives more time before the weekend for the game to arrive (if it is late), download (if you have poor internet like me) and also so there is no delay between here and the US.
 
Puppetmaster said:
I thought one of the reasons for different release dates was to avoid online servers getting hammered, like when Diablo 3 was released and battlenet pretty much died. (I may be talking out of my behind however)
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For digital purchases, that can be partly circumvented by letting people pre-load the game. It is also one of the issues with developers releasing unfinished games and then having to patch them to death. As well as day one DLC because they are capitalist monsters :p
 
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