XCOM : Enemy Unknown - by Firaxis Games - Thread

There is a post on the steam forums from a valve employee saying it is a violation of the SSA.

Now whether or not they would do anything about it is unknown but with the amount of games i have on Steam it don't think it's worth even a small risk
 
Reemul said:
There is a post on the steam forums from a valve employee saying it is a violation of the SSA.

Now whether or not they would do anything about it is unknown but with the amount of games i have on Steam it don't think it's worth even a small risk
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Don't think there has ever been a single case of Valve banning an account for simply using a VPN to unlock games.

The only time they have been known to ban is when people use VPN to buy games.

EA on the other hand, they have been locking Origin accounts left , right and centre for ridiculous stuff.
 
Playin thru vpn now, your all mad if you think valve going to do anything to stop you, look it makes no difference to them if your playing it early. No difference to firaxis either. They HAVE to say its a breach of terms or lawyers would be all over their ass, they also HAVE to say that by being in breach you could have your account terminated as they need to keep the option available, if they dont then people could exploit them and they would not have legal recourse.

I spend 100's of pounds on steam, well over a £1000 in total, you really think they will kick me off the service for using a vpn to play a game early like im some naughty child? They dont give a ****!
 
Ultra_Extreme said:
Playin thru vpn now, your all mad if you think valve going to do anything to stop you, look it makes no difference to them if your playing it early. No difference to firaxis either. They HAVE to say its a breach of terms or lawyers would be all over their ass, they also HAVE to say that by being in breach you could have your account terminated as they need to keep the option available, if they dont then people could exploit them and they would not have legal recourse.

I spend 100's of pounds on steam, well over a £1000 in total, you really think they will kick me off the service for using a vpn to play a game early like im some naughty child? They dont give a ****!
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Apparently there were people who received e-mails last time around for Borderlands 2. It seems Valve are operating a strike system for repeat offenders. I doubt very much that Valve care when you play the game so long as they get the money but I'd imagine that the publishers are putting pressure on Valve to prevent it from happening. Personally I think it's absurd not to release it as soon as it's available but then I don't run a large game publishing company so what do I know.
 
Well pirates are currently enjoying it, so for Valve to get angst over VPN unlocks is absurd.

Should be happy people are paying for it. These limitations don't apply to consoles so why on earth should they count on PC.
 
Thoroughly enjoying this game at the moment, playing on classic ironman.

Numerous casualties already! 7 dead, 3 wounded, not even through the first month yet!

Lost my sniper early doors, have yet to find a replacement. I sent him to climb up onto the roof of a bus, a nice thin man was waiting up there and shot him in the head...

I also lost a couple of troops protecting a civilian I had to escort back to the skyranger. Gutted, but ironman is definitely the way to go, loving it.

The tutorial is fairly extensive, it goes on quite a bit longer than the demo, in terms of base management etc. Once you are let loose, brilliant.
 
So how do you do this unlock and does it affect anything? Do you always have to play it over VPN, or once it's released in uk will it be fine?
 
Glaucus said:
So how do you do this unlock and does it affect anything? Do you always have to play it over VPN, or once it's released in uk will it be fine?
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sign up to something like privatetunnel(.com) download trial app, connect to US server, restart steam, launch game, quit game, put steam in offline mode, keep it offline till friday. Done.
 
Sweet If you go Advance settings, when setting up a game you can disable tutorial.
I'm on normal iron man, just done third mission no one dead yet.
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Account banning in the EU/UK would bring about so many law suits it would be unreal, we are well protected against inappropriate T&C's - the OFC guidelines, whilst open to interpretation, are pretty strict when it comes to unreasonable barriers in sales contracts.
 
Bleek said:
Account banning in the EU/UK would bring about so many law suits it would be unreal, we are well protected against inappropriate T&C's - the OFC guidelines, whilst open to interpretation, are pretty strict when it comes to unreasonable barriers in sales contracts.
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That may be so but your account would still be locked without access to your games until the issue was resolved.
 
Great to see this picking up so many good reviews, what a relief.

Looking forward to Friday!

Can’t decide what difficulty to play on for the first time. I was thinking normal but don’t want to rush through it to easily, but at the same time I don’t want to get overly frustrated if it’s really hard. Anyone got any thoughts on this?
 
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