Why is this banned in my country?

[Cherry]

I'm so freaking tired, I've posted about 10 threads in 10 different games on why this is banned in my country...

[nads]

if you are from aus then it is not

[Asphe]

Fayy... Fayy... you need to slow down. Ten threads is too many. Just one or two. Then you won't feel so tired. Go play with the cat in between threads. You'll feel better.

[Sharcman]

Maybe you should tell us what your country actually is.

[Cherry]

Thailand, it's on my profile.

[Ikagawa]

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Thailand, it's on my profile.

Your profile says you're from Australia. You should probably look into that.

[Cherry]

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Początkowo opublikowane przez -H-Fayy:

Thailand, it's on my profile.

Your profile says you're from Australia. You should probably look into that.

I just changed it because I kept getting ♥♥♥♥♥♥ jokes.

[Ikagawa]

I've been looking around and I haven't seen any reports of IP addresses from Thailand being banned from the FFXIV servers.

The only relevant thing I've seen so far is from 2013 from a player on the Tonberry server.

"Yah not every country allows digital sales. It's best your friend picks it up in Thailand because the region of the game has to match your location as indicated in your Square Enix Account or the registration code that comes with the game will NOT work. If he was shipped a North American copy he'd have to register his Country as Canada or US and he'd then be unable to pay with a Thai based credit card I believe. "

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/121652-Playing-in-thailand?p=1614760&viewfull=1#post1614760

Sorry I couldn't help!

[Cherry]

Ok. A lot of games are banned with no explanation here. Not in federal law, but on Steam. Such as 90% of Rockstar games, Games with GFWL DRM, games that Asian companies own (Thailand or not) and much others.

[nads]

can i just say try using a vpn tunnel it may work to get the games but may be illegal

[Roflcakes Internet]

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Ok. A lot of games are banned with no explanation here. Not in federal law, but on Steam. Such as 90% of Rockstar games, Games with GFWL DRM, games that Asian companies own (Thailand or not) and much others.

maybe you need to find a different country i know when i go on youtube for a video and it says not available in my country i just move to a different country

[Asphe]

Just buy in Bangkok and add it as a non-Steam game. You only 'lose' the option to pay via Steam Wallet (but you still keep the Crysta option).

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If you MUST have it on Steam, make a SE account and see what region you're allowed to 'belong to'. Then buy it / trade it (making sure the regions match). Once it's in your Library... well this issue is no longer relevant then.

If you want to know the root cause of this, look to the person (and his family) controlling the sole distributorships in your country's area.

[Sharcman]

For God's sake, just get a VPN like hotspot shield and use to change your location any time you need to bypass the block.

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Ok. A lot of games are banned with no explanation here. Not in federal law, but on Steam. Such as 90% of Rockstar games, Games with GFWL DRM, games that Asian companies own (Thailand or not) and much others.

Probably has something to do with piracy. pirated games mostly came from Thailand and Russia when i was a kid. Now that i have steam, no more pirated games for me, but still, i think that piracy is the likely issue for you. That, and Gil Sellers. Too easy to download a new copy of the game. Having to use a physical copy, i think, slows them down a little on making new accounts to sell with.

[MancSoulja]

From Wikipedia:

'Thailand will typically ban any games with sexual content, such as many hentai games, with the same reasons as banning any pornographic films.

Additionally, all video games of Grand Theft Auto video game series have been banned in Thailand since August 2008[50] because of an 18-year old Thai player who killed a taxi-driver similar to the gameplay in GTA.[51]'

Maybe your censors have made the Japan \ hentai connection and banned it inproperly, or maybe the data centre FFXIV uses for your region hosts games that are already banned and thus meaning this will be automatically banned.

[Asphe]

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For God's sake, just get a VPN like hotspot shield and use to change your location any time you need to bypass the block.

Doesn't work.

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Początkowo opublikowane przez ¤-H-Fayy:

Ok. A lot of games are banned with no explanation here. Not in federal law, but on Steam. Such as 90% of Rockstar games, Games with GFWL DRM, games that Asian companies own (Thailand or not) and much others.

Probably has something to do with piracy. pirated games mostly came from Thailand and Russia when i was a kid. Now that i have steam, no more pirated games for me, but still, i think that piracy is the likely issue for you. That, and Gil Sellers. Too easy to download a new copy of the game. Having to use a physical copy, i think, slows them down a little on making new accounts to sell with.

Początkowo opublikowane przez MancSoulja:

From Wikipedia:

'Thailand will typically ban any games with sexual content, such as many hentai games, with the same reasons as banning any pornographic films.

Additionally, all video games of Grand Theft Auto video game series have been banned in Thailand since August 2008[50] because of an 18-year old Thai player who killed a taxi-driver similar to the gameplay in GTA.[51]'

Maybe your censors have made the Japan \ hentai connection and banned it inproperly, or maybe the data centre FFXIV uses for your region hosts games that are already banned and thus meaning this will be automatically banned.

It's Steam. But it's on request by SE i.e. SE tells Steam not to offer so-and-so games in certain regions. Look up FF14 at SteamDB, it's not available in the ASEAN (irc) region not just Thailand.

As to why... who knows? SE doesn't want to offer 'inferior' service to say Singapore because Singapore has a terrible connection to Tokyo (my proxy in SG, ping of 75-85ms, no packet loss). SE might be trying to get another entity to start up a 'Thailand ONRY FFXIV' service (google FF14 in China for examples) and maybe... the region in question has a rather prudish government that is like what MancSoulja mentioned. For example, Malaysia (considered by some to be a Islamic authoritarian state) might censor certain things (wanna buy the latest South Park game? 100% UNCENSORED in Malaysia... not so much in Australia/Germany... Go Malaysia!).

Or say, company A wants to sell their games in Region B. They might have to use a certain distributor C who tells A [thou shalt not sell ANYTHING in Region B except through us]. So when a certain online service wants to sell A's games, they can't sell then in Region B.

Look, it's modern DRM. Using Thailand as an example, you can buy some games like Dark Souls 2 using Steam in Thailand. Try buying Dark Souls 1. No? Ok, buy Dark Souls 2... then try to activate the game in Italy (I dunno, maybe you want really, really fresh pasta?). No. Ok, perhaps the Dark Souls 2 is a lot cheaper in Thailand (e.g. like some games are in Russia)... no, they pay the same price as the USA... in dollars. So why? Take your pick from the above. Or just throw a dart. Sometimes noone really knows why.

PS If the OP has been using a credit card / payment credentials located in Thailand/etc... the account is 'locked' to Thailand. Using a geo-locate IP service / VPN will NOT help.