If you’ve been following the steam store at all this week, you probably have noticed that there has been an Ubisoft sale going on. Each day a new game has been put on sale (Monday Assassin’s Creed, Tuesday Prince of Persia 4 (? the latest one), Wednesday was Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway, and Thursday saw a good deal on Far Cry 2. All of them were exceptionally good deals and I want to play all of them (except I already played through Assassin’s Creed) – I probably will when I get back to the states. However, the weekend deal was the greatest one, in my opinion: four Ubisoft games – Beyond Good & Evil, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946, Far Cry, and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic – for $10! Supposedly.
When I clicked on the banner ad on the front page of the Steam store it took me to this page, but lo and behold there were only three games included in the package. I naturally thought this was incredibly odd since it listed all of the games in the banner ad and said that it included “All four games for one low price.” I did a little bit of searching and found that at least one other person had the same problem (click here for the thread) – to which someone else suggested it might be an international restriction. To confirm this, I did a little test: using some ssh tunneling and a SOCKS proxy I made it appear to steam as though my IP was in the states (instead of India) and sure enough – the other game popped right up in the list. So apparently there’s an international restriction on Dark Messiah of Might and Magic…
Edit: I found out some more information – go here for a list of the countries that are restricted.
