How to play BDO EU from Russia?

[slowly_dead]

Hello, 3 friends and I started playing BDO EU this year, and since it is impossible to purchase a Game Pass from the official website in our region for political reasons, we downloaded steam's version of client. We have no problems with Game Pass through steam, but after each update on Wednesdays, I mean every week, a Russian client downloads to us, instead of a European one, we have to wait for it to download completely, and then, using file replacement, re-download the European client absolutely from scratch, it takes several hours every week, and my friends they complain that all they do is download updates instead of playing the game. Is it possible to fix this problem somehow?
We still using this "crutch" to change our region each time: https://steamcommunity.com/app/582660/discussions/15/3195864877892179682/

[помогите]

same problem, it's so annoying to redownload game TWICE every week

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Получаю полное удовольствие готов и дальше перекачивать игру (нет)

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Originally posted by slowly_dead:

Hello, 3 friends and I started playing BDO EU this year, and since it is impossible to purchase a Game Pass from the official website in our region for political reasons, we downloaded steam's version of client. We have no problems with Game Pass through steam, but after each update on Wednesdays, I mean every week, a Russian client downloads to us, instead of a European one, we have to wait for it to download completely, and then, using file replacement, re-download the European client absolutely from scratch, it takes several hours every week, and my friends they complain that all they do is download updates instead of playing the game. Is it possible to fix this problem somehow?
We still using this "crutch" to change our region each time: https://steamcommunity.com/app/582660/discussions/15/3195864877892179682/

Can you try using a VPN? Maybe if you connect to a european country it will download the EU client update instead?

[slowly_dead]

Originally posted by Joe "Kenya" Biden:

Originally posted by slowly_dead:

Hello, 3 friends and I started playing BDO EU this year, and since it is impossible to purchase a Game Pass from the official website in our region for political reasons, we downloaded steam's version of client. We have no problems with Game Pass through steam, but after each update on Wednesdays, I mean every week, a Russian client downloads to us, instead of a European one, we have to wait for it to download completely, and then, using file replacement, re-download the European client absolutely from scratch, it takes several hours every week, and my friends they complain that all they do is download updates instead of playing the game. Is it possible to fix this problem somehow?
We still using this "crutch" to change our region each time: https://steamcommunity.com/app/582660/discussions/15/3195864877892179682/

Can you try using a VPN? Maybe if you connect to a european country it will download the EU client update instead?

Ye, we've tried it, of course, but it doesn't help. The fact is that the steam's bdo client most likely checks which region the steam is locked to, I mean, in the account settings connected with wallet and payment information. And we cannot change this region. As a last resort, we can only do this if we contact steam technical support, but we can also completely lose our steam accounts when we want to replenish our wallet, since our cards are still linked to Russian banks.

[octopath]

Originally posted by slowly_dead:

Originally posted by Joe "Kenya" Biden:

Can you try using a VPN? Maybe if you connect to a european country it will download the EU client update instead?

Ye, we've tried it, of course, but it doesn't help. The fact is that the steam's bdo client most likely checks which region the steam is locked to, I mean, in the account settings connected with wallet and payment information. And we cannot change this region. As a last resort, we can only do this if we contact steam technical support, but we can also completely lose our steam accounts when we want to replenish our wallet, since our cards are still linked to Russian banks.

other solution would be to use vpn .download the game from offical website instead of steam and buy the eu version from a third party website .but i am not sure if any 3rd party is selling keys for it that will use russian payment methods for payment.

[slowly_dead]

Originally posted by octopath:

Originally posted by slowly_dead:

Ye, we've tried it, of course, but it doesn't help. The fact is that the steam's bdo client most likely checks which region the steam is locked to, I mean, in the account settings connected with wallet and payment information. And we cannot change this region. As a last resort, we can only do this if we contact steam technical support, but we can also completely lose our steam accounts when we want to replenish our wallet, since our cards are still linked to Russian banks.

other solution would be to use vpn .download the game from offical website instead of steam and buy the eu version from a third party website .but i am not sure if any 3rd party is selling keys for it that will use russian payment methods for payment.

Yes, we also tried this option for an official client. we found a Russian-language website where was sold keys on BDO EU. My friend bought a key there, but in the end nothing came to him. They replied that they were sorry, but the goods were out. And they didn't even give him the money back. He just bought air. It is unlikely that he will want to try this with another site using vpn, there is no guarantee that the same thing will not happen.

[warbaby345]

This is all to do with payment acceptance. I always use my Paypal account for online transactions. I realise that may not be currently possible from Russia due to Paypal's shortsighted view of the world but maybe there is another such offering which will shield payee eyes from the payment funds source. I don't know if there is such a facility.

If that is not available to Russians then both Pearl Abyss and Steam will eventually suffer gamer backlash since more and more nations are dumping the USD in overseas payments in favour of paying in their own local currencies. Both Europe and the US are now suffering massive economic downturns as a direct result of useless unilateral sanctions against Russia, which are actually benefitting Russia and hurting themselves. But I'm sure this is already well known.

The gaming world which operates internationally, if they had an eye to their own future, would be taking such global movements away from a single reserve currency to more broader acceptance of global payment systems. I understand that BRICS is currently working on their own non-dollar-based Payment System. Any international vendor, which includes the gaming world, would be foolish to ignore such moves, don't you think?