Atari doesn't want my money?

[ltmayonnaise]

I love games and I support the developers who make them. I want to buy The Witcher Enhanced Edition, but live in Spain. I live about 2 hours from the nearest games store and rarely have time to go there. Therefore I rely on Steam and Direct2Drive for most of my game purchases. I recently found out (as has been the case with all Atari releases) that The Witcher Enhanced Edition will not be available to purchase via digital distribution for a large part of Europe and many other regions of the world DESPITE the fact that the game is being released in 10 different languages.

Here's what Atari has to say about the release: "Games from Atari are only available in North America. * The Witcher is also available in Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, and Ukraine."

I want to buy your games and support you. You're losing many international purchases by insisting on publishing agreements that region restrict your games. Just take a look at this recent Witcher topic (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=724885) on the Steam forums or check out the nearly 9000 Steam users who have joined the "Rest Of World" (http://steamcommunity.com/groups/restofworld) group to petition against unfair region restrictions and pricing.

We want to support you, why not let us?

Thanks,
Nathan

[kalniel]

Can't you buy The Witcher from the Atari online store or gamesplanet/metaboli?

[ltmayonnaise]

I suppose I could use Gamesplanet, however if I could buy it via Steam or D2D the game costs $40. From Gamesplanet it costs £35/$65!!! Somebody want to tell me why it's $25 more expensive buying the same digital download? I'll probably wait to see if distribution via Steam in Europe gets sorted out and hope for a fairer price.

One other thing. On all the forums I've visited where people are bitching about this no one knows the game is available via Gamesplanet. Most people think it's not available as a digital download in Western Europe. Hell, I'd never even heard of Gamesplanet until you mentioned it.

[Diablo_]

Your best bet would be contact metaboli and/or gamesplanet and find out if they would ship to you from their French counterpart which you can see has their price in Euros (€).They don't appear to have a Spanish setup yet though they do have UK, France, Germany and Italy.

Not much help to you I know but if there are others in these regions then be sure to pass it on, thanks.

UK http://www.gamesplanet.com/UK/
France http://www.gamesplanet.com/FR/
Germany http://www.gamesplanet.com/DE/
Italy http://www.gamesplanet.com/IT/

[ltmayonnaise]

Thanks for the help eh. I already linked to this post from a thread on Steam so I'm sure the news will filter down.

[Diablo_]

No problem, and here's an email you can contact if you want to ask about shipping to your country: serviceclient@gamesplanet.com