Okay, so since I can't pre-order it, then that means it is not even available, then what the hell I'm going to do with the Collectors Edition, if it requires Steamworks, then it required Steam activation, no?

Then seriously, how the hell I'm going to activate my copy?

I feel you man. Same stuff in my country - can not buy it on steam.

So i did the next best thing, ordered retail copy, but yes i too am afraid it will not activate, no idea what to do in that situation.

Pity i am no lawyer, should be easy enough to sue the crap out of someone for discrimination based on where you live, we'r all in European union after all.

In Poland skyrim is not even on steam, but you can still pre-order and everything, dunno what's wrong, I'm sure they'll fix it tho

Relevant legislation just allows local vendors to sell products from elsewhere in the EU, but it doesn't force anyone to sell you the game. You are free to buy anywhere too, of course...

just preorder a retail copy, and you will thank me later.

in Spain we have to stick to the lame dubbed spanish version, if it wasen't too late for preodering i would just buy it from amazon.uk instead

Yeah, because every country is in the Union. Besides, the fact that it's even possible to sue/arrest someone in another country for a law in your own country shows how screwed up EU really is.

Seriously, why no one won't asnwer this question from Bethesda?

What if I get my game and Steam refuses to activate it for me?

Who do I turn to?

Nadya, I feel you, I too want to play the game in english, subbed, not completely dubbed, although Fallout 3's dub was quite good for a spanish dub.
Off Topic: Regards from Catalonia

Edit: I'm not totally sure, but I think we can change the language in Steam. Let's cross our fingers.

Sorry, but why is it that Skyrim is not avaiable on steam? Is it beacause [censored] up people that are making the laws or what? I don't get it ?

It is more like because of [censored] distributor companies.

but why in the earth would steam forbit it then? I don't think steam would care wich country you are living in? Who has the power over steam in you'r country? I'd say vote from the rooftops man. That is pretty [censored]d up system there

You can actually do what I did, go to direct2drive.co.uk and order it from there. You get an activation key via e-mail and you can register - and preload now - on Steam.

Ps.: I am also from Hungary.

Same here, I really hope that in a day or 2 Skyrim will appear on Steam

Same here, I'm from Estonia and Steam wouldn't let me pre-order. The only way I got mine is because a super-generous person gifted it to me through Steam, so now I have Skyrim shown in my games library with the pre-load option and everything. So I think that for everyone else, either pre-ordering a retail copy or having it gifted to you should allow you to unlock the game on Steam

It is probably not steam's fault.
It is most likely Bethesda has made an agreement with retailers in Hungary to not sell online versions of the game to Hungary. So Steam is not allowed to sell it.
I am basing from my experience with Impulse, another digital game distribution software. They told me it is due to developers or publishers that some games are not available for my region.

We need more information from you. Do Hungary retail shops sell Skyrim?

There is a possibly that it is due to laws, but that seems unlikely because Skyrim and Witcher 2 (mature games) are sold to me, yet Dirt 3 is not available for my region.

But, despite Dirt 3 not being available to me on Steam, I bought a Sapphire HD6970 graphics card that gave me a free Dirt 3 game. I registered it and it is available on my Steam for download.

Hope it helps.

So you mean, if I buy it on the release date, in the shop, well personally I will buy the TES5: Skyrim Collectors Edition, so it will be in my language or in English? And so, after I will be able to activate it on Steam?

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Any more people wana discuss this?