People using loopholes to install and play the game doesnât mean itâs not forbidden in these countries.
i completely understand that it sucks for everyone who relied on a vpn to play, legally in some cases or not. If my country decided all of a sudden to outlaw lootboxes and subsequently iâd be unable to play iâd be pissed, too. But there just isnt a thing amazon can do. they canât officialy allow ppl to use vpnâs for legal reasons.
Maaaybe u will get lucky and they drop the vpn ban at some point since they figured sth out that worked against the bots. i dont rly think that will be the case though sadly, its hard to imagine that theyâd lift it after implementing it.
I am sorry but if they are only blocking certain countries, while letting others continue to have access (even though they donât have the rights to publish the game there) I sense something more sinister than âwe donât have the rights to publish this game in your country.â
Dheck is up with publishing rights? does new world have that? itâs available in all country,⌠no region lock
Whatever. You can then wear your aluminum hat and think about all these evil people hired in AGS and SMilegate who are paid just to think about the best ways to screw Middle East players since obviously everyone needs to hate them for some reason.
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well its a thing from smilegate as iâve been told at least,tho the vpn ban isnt in new world
there is no war or anything,not even arguement so no need to do that,weâre just talking about this desicion that was made "to get rid of botsâ thats all 
Have I become a conspiracy theorist now? Hahah, that something Iâve never bee accused of before. Thanks for that! 
Now, Iâll try to rephrase what I said in hopes that you might understand it this time. I have a friend from Iran and another one from Netherlands. They were both able to download the game by using the same trick. As long as they had the game installed they were playing it just fine. Amazon doesnât have the rights to publish this game on either of those countries.
At one point Amazon restricted the IPs from Iran so they could no longer log into the game. People from Netherlands never encountered this problem. So the one from Iran started using VPN to play.
Now, I am not trying to defend any sides here. But I canât help but find it odd that this is how this played out.
Iâll gladly put on my tin hat now. Thanks for the free hat 
Everytime AGS âsolvesâ bot problem only what we are getting is more bots and more pissed players xD
ye its very normal tbh lmao,i mean i played new world so i know how they âhandleâ problems
âI used to play from middle eastâ
Fixed for you.
You should blame EU then.
Im not 100% sure about that but in EU there is a law that treats IP address as some kind of âprivacy dataâ so steam neither collects it nor âshowsâ to the game dev/publisher. So basically they have blocked the game but donât have a legal way to track IP of specific EU countries. And thatâs most likely the reason for this disproportion.
AGS could find a way to enforce ToS on Belgium/Netherland players but that would require manpower, time and money so they most likely donât care enough to bother.
I am glad that we can have a discussion without insulting one another now. 
I wasnât aware of that detail, so I appreciate you sharing that. If thatâs the reason, I can understand it a little better. Even though it still makes me sad that these are the measures they decided to take.
i mean they dont need to do it from steam,they can do it in a way to give the same error that it gives to others when youâre in like server login section,thats why AGS seems a little bit sus imo and no i dont want them to do that before some angry person comes and say something like that
well someone is mad,tho to make you even more mad im not from middle east,i just have some friends in there,so good luck in being more angry for pretty much no reason
Well⌠Itâs easy to assume that most of the botters are from China so in theory VPN ban should stop their access but also for everyone with some experience in that field it should be clear that itâs not that hard to bypass by using more advanced VPN tools or just TOR connection. Anyway, I would not suspect AGS employees of being competent in anything so most likely we will see more ârandomâ solutions in hope that maybe any of them will work.
@Camazotz546 AGS has also no access to that data. They are obligated to respect EU laws when they work on the EU terrain as any other company.
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Releasing game in the ME would be problematic since they would need to change many many many things just to fit their regional laws and most likely itâs just not worth doing it.
ye they have hard laws afaik,also i didnt know about that info you said,tho as i heard bots are still flooding the game and ppl are in queue iirc
US is flooded with bots. EU is more or less fine (we still have bots but not as much and no qs), US is infected because its closer to China + they spend more than EU so itâs easier money.
No, you dont anymore:D