Can someone explain me why I have two separate games of Borderlands 2?

[Miles (Tails) Prower]

Hey.

I am asking this out of curiosity. Currently In my library I have Borderlands 2 RU & Borderlands 2. But I don't know for what reason it's like that. Is it for each individual country or there's maybe some region lock?

[Count Burzum]

ru= russian version

[Zen_Disaster]

Originally posted by Miles (Tails) Prower:

Hey.

I am asking this out of curiosity. Currently In my library I have Borderlands 2 RU & Borderlands 2. But I don't know for what reason it's like that. Is it for each individual country or there's maybe some region lock?

I don't know why or how you'd have two, speaking frankly. Perhaps one was an unnoticed extra @ the time you got it as a gift? Something like that where you didn't even notice the extra copy @ the time ~ I agree that it's doubtful, but far from impossible. As long as you've met a couple of Steam's easy requirements for a full game credit as detailed on their page here ~~~ https://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds ~~~ you're good to go ...
Good Luck & Happy Gaming

[Miles (Tails) Prower]

Originally posted by Count Burzum:

ru= russian version

I mean I know, but why? Why couldn't I just had only one borderlands 2? I still don't understand this separation. It's just the same game only on Russian language (some textures even with text), and it doesn't have that thingy on the left bottom in main menu. But the same game.

Originally posted by Zen_Disaster:

Originally posted by Miles (Tails) Prower:

Hey.

I am asking this out of curiosity. Currently In my library I have Borderlands 2 RU & Borderlands 2. But I don't know for what reason it's like that. Is it for each individual country or there's maybe some region lock?

I don't know why or how you'd have two, speaking frankly. Perhaps one was an unnoticed extra @ the time you got it as a gift? Something like that where you didn't even notice the extra copy @ the time ~ I agree that it's doubtful, but far from impossible. As long as you've met a couple of Steam's easy requirements for a full game credit as detailed on their page here ~~~ https://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds ~~~ you're good to go ...
Good Luck & Happy Gaming

Well, I played this at 2013, so it's soooo far away from refunding

But the curious just now. Quite suddenly my head was like "How the hell did Gearbox [or 2K] make 2 the same games?"

[goka9696]

Originally posted by Miles (Tails) Prower:

Originally posted by Count Burzum:

ru= russian version

I mean I know, but why? Why couldn't I just had only one borderlands 2? I still don't understand this separation. It's just the same game only on Russian language (some textures even with text), and it doesn't have that thingy on the left bottom in main menu. But the same game.

Originally posted by Zen_Disaster:

I don't know why or how you'd have two, speaking frankly. Perhaps one was an unnoticed extra @ the time you got it as a gift? Something like that where you didn't even notice the extra copy @ the time ~ I agree that it's doubtful, but far from impossible. As long as you've met a couple of Steam's easy requirements for a full game credit as detailed on their page here ~~~ https://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds ~~~ you're good to go ...
Good Luck & Happy Gaming

Well, I played this at 2013, so it's soooo far away from refunding :c7xd:

But the curious just now. Quite suddenly my head was like "How the hell did Gearbox [or 2K] make 2 the same games?"

Some devs used to do that to separate the versions that were released for sale in specific regions. This ensures that players who have those games have their own forums (russian forum for Borderlands 2, Dishonored also had a special version for Eastern Europe which has its own forums). Sometimes these games (such as Borderlands 2 RU) are locked to a specific language and can't be changed.

[Linukas164]

For easter european users the devs added a russion version of the game in case they weren't speaking english, I also have it, I am from Lithuania. We pay the same price as other Euro currency countries, however, when looking at purchase history, it says 6 cents.

[Casurin]

As others have mentioned already: when BL2 was developed they created a seperate version for the russian marked, but they just added that as an extra launcher to the game instead of developing an incompatible version all together.

Why not integrate it into 1 game?
Local regulations.
Very often a game has content that is allowed in many but not all regions. Changing the game to follow all regulations often would leave a lackluster game, so they just change it for specific regions.
This that can get games banned include depiction of religion (positive and negative), nudity, sexual refrences, dark humor, social and political commentary or satire.... and the list goes on.

Well, you can choose which version you want to play, but they are essentially the same (thankfully back then they did not cater to the CCP or other terror-organisations like Antifa,BLM and co).