Dear russian fellows..

[BobTuck]

i got to the point where it allowed me to enter my credit card details, but then it wanted a small test amount to check my account (2$), but that check failed and it locked my account!

[David198502]

so adonys tell us how it worked please!

[LegTaste]

Is there a Russian version of steam?

If so buying the steam version will be quite easy, subscribe to a vpn service that has russian servers (you should be able to just buy a week for a small amount), log into steam and you will see steam as the russians would even with your normal account.

It works for UK steam accounts accessed through a US server, gets you the cheaper prices.

Update:

Looks like the hidemyass VPN will do and can be purchased for cheap.

Just need people to confirm if cliffs of dover can be bought from steam when access from russia, then we're good to go.

[palvas]

Originally Posted by LegTaste

Is there a Russian version of steam?

If so buying the steam version will be quite easy, subscribe to a vpn service that has russian servers, log into steam and you will see steam as the russians would even with your normal account.

It works for UK steam accounts accessed through a US server, gets you the cheaper prices.

Ok,but,as I said: it's a safe procedure ? Is there a risk of ban ? When i put the CC info,i put italy of course.I don't want to spend XXX rubles for playng 10 minutes of COD,thx.

[adonys]

I am a romanian, my cc is a romanian one from BRD bank, which is a french bank (Societe Generale), and it is a Mastercard.

I did all of this from London, UK (where I am atm).

1) I've bought the game from the russian yuplay site. I can confirm it was 14.something (under 15) USD, and another 1.6 USD the security payment.

I've used google translate (even if I know how to read russian, I don't understand all the words, it was a loong time ago when I was studying russian in highschool). You need an yuplay account to buy, just set up one (I've already had one on yuplay.com, from buying WoP on Steam as it was required, and it worked on yuplay.ru too)

I've browsed to the game, pressed the Buy (in russian) button, then went to checkout.

I've selected the VISA/MASTERCARD payment option, then I've added my cc details.

Then I've pressed buy.

As it is the first time I've added that cc on my acount, they've did a security payment from it, and asked me to check my bank account and enter the amount taken from them in that security payment. For me, it was 1.6 USD

All of this I did last night. I couldn't confirm the security amount, as my bank's online application wouldn't show recent transactions (it can take even 3 days to update)

This morning I've called the bank, and they've confirmed there were two payments made from y account to yuplay, the security one in amount of 1.6 USD, and the game's payment in 14.something USD amount.

After I've confirmed the security amount (1.6 USD for me), the trasaction was made, and I've received an email with the game's serial.

I've made a normal new account (from my UK appartment, using Steam app, marking it's country ass Romania), and then registered the serial on it (which appears as IL2 CoD russian retail, app 63650), then I've downloaded it, and started it.

All the text is in russian, but you can manage if you can read russian, or have a look at the english menu screenshots Oleg released a while ago in some updates. All the sounds are in english (radio chatter, etc).

PS: do NOT try to buy it through Steam, even if you'll use a VPN and a russian IP/russian Steam (by adding a ?cc=RU at the end of the application's link), your cc will not be russian, and you will not be allowed to buy it.

PPS: the game runs horribly for me, but well then, I am on a rather crappy laptop (Intel Core2 Duo 330M 2.13 GHz 1066 MHz, ATI Mobility Radeon 5470 500 MB VRAM, 4 GB DDR2 RAM, 5400 rotations HDD), with everythingset on medium I think. I'll start thinkering the video settings as soon as you guys let me

[Flanker15]

There's another way to buy the Russian release on steam just have someone who can buy the Russian version (e.g. a Russian) to gift you the game on steam. Of course you'll need someone who can buy the Russian version first.
The version you gift is the version you buy regardless of where it's being sent too.
Important thing to note is a game with one steamID can't play with another steamID game using steamworks so if you buy the Russian version you can't play against Ubi versions, it will missmatch.
This has been used for many steam games (usually to circumvent censorship) and if it doesn't work with this one I'd be shocked.

You should probably wait until the game comes out first though, I still have faith that the devs won't let us down.

[LegTaste]

is russian hard to learn?

I see myself doing that before i buy a fucked version of the game.

[palvas]

Well,if the game menu is still in Russian,sorry for me ,but i'll go (maybe) with West version.I cannot afford a game sim in a language that i can't read at all: briefings,menu,settings,keys. And still,we don't know if it steam allows this strange procedure.Maybe not now,but in a week our fakeaccounts could be banished.

[adonys]

Originally Posted by Flanker15

Important thing to note is a game with one steamID can't play with another steamID game using steamworks so if you buy the Russian version you can't play against Ubi versions, it will missmatch.
This has been used for many steam games (usually to circumvent censorship) and if it doesn't work with this one I'd be shocked.

that's why I've setup a new id for it, I've not added it to my main Steam account, but to a new one.

Originally Posted by Flanker15

You should probably wait until the game comes out first though, I still have faith that the devs won't let us down.

Well, Luthier said more than a couple of times that UBI international version will have the permanent (as in not optional) epilepsy preventing modifications (be them the epilepsy filter, or the tinkered graphics) no matter what. Is not about them, is about UBI's policy and the contract they've signed.

[adonys]

Originally Posted by palvas

Well,if the game menu is still in Russian,sorry for me ,but i'll go (maybe) with West version.I cannot afford a game sim in a language that i can't read at all: briefings,menu,settings,keys. And still,we don't know if it steam allows this strange procedure.Maybe not now,but in a week our fakeaccounts could be banished.

I'm confident we'll find out how to turn on/force the english menu in the russian version pretty soon.

The account can not be banned, as there is nothing illegal in there. As someone said above, getting Steam games gifted from other countries is actually an official mechanism incorporated in Steam, and it works ok.