stolen from games.on.net

Astute Aussies have noticed a discrepancy in the local Steam version of Borderlands. These attentive gamers spotted a file labelled borderlands_low_violence.ncf in the installation folder, which isn’t present in the US version. Alarm bells rang, with the implication that Aussies were being sold a low-impact version of the game. It’s not such a far-fetched conspiracy theory, considering Australia’s stringent Classification Board and lack of R18+ rating.

We’ve just gotten off the phone to 2k Games, and it turns out that yes, the Australian Steam version of the game is a low-violence version of the game.

However, it’s not meant to be.

wat the fork?

Still 3 days till this is out for us, so hopefully it'll be fixed by then.

You can use a VPN to unlock the game early.

http://anonymitynetwork.com/ - Free 3 hour VPN

You can use a VPN to unlock the game early.

http://anonymitynetwork.com/ - Free 3 hour VPN

Wow that is working!

Haha, that's cool, but I think I'd rather just wait the extra few days than face the Valve banhammer.

I have no idea what Valve's priorities are, but my Steam account has too many games on there for me to want to risk it. I'll just play the L4D2 demo in the meantime.

can we use the vpn to buy l4d2?

I did the vpn unlock thing and didn't notice the lack of violence (though wasn't looking for it). I have the borderlands_low_violence.ncf file though, so that ust have been the case.

All that being said though, the game is boring as shit singleplayer, and no amount of violence will fix that. Hopefully there will be some amazing multiplayer moments that will redeem the title for me.

Haha, that's cool, but I think I'd rather just wait the extra few days than face the Valve banhammer.

I think valve have better things to do, plus they shouldn't have teased us with that countdown, only to delay it by 3 days less than an hour away from release. The release date was always said to be the 27th.last edited by Tremble at 15:10:32 27/Oct/09

In fact the banner ad on the AusGamers websites says 23rd October.

In fact the banner ad on the AusGamers websites says 23rd October.

Which was the correct date for the console versions.

Personally I don't see what all the fuss is about, I woke up early that morning, saw that Steam had incorrectly advertised the US release date and not the AUS release date and thus had to push the release back to Friday. My world failed to end so I said fuck it and went and got a round of golf in before work :)

i downloaded it last night does this count?

Managed a brief (up to level 3 Beserker) and it looks great and sounds great - but so as Machninarium.