PlayStation®Network General

[Lithics]

To: MICROSOFT CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION, NINTENDO and EUROPEAN UNION REPRESENTATIVES

We, the ROMANIAN owners of gaming consoles, related products and services offered by MICROSOFT CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION and NINTENDO, as full rights members of EUROPEAN UNION and users of the products and services you sold us, we kindly plead you to consider our petition for enabling full online services and support for ROMANIA. Through this document, we would like to request to be treated according to the EUROPEAN UNION laws, as equals in rights with all the other member countries where these services are available.

The products named here as MICROSOFT XBOX 360, SONY PLAYSTATION 3 and NINTENDO WII you sold us and are still selling in ROMANIA, like in any other European country, come with no warnings that the products bought have no support at all in our country. Therefore we would like to benefit from the full online services we paid for.

Dear EUROPEAN UNION REPRESENTATIVES, as members of the EUROPEAN UNION, we would like to petition for full rights as everyone else and be able to use the online services and support for the products we paid for. None of the three products named above allow us to use it online in ROMANIA, as there is no such support, although most of us have paid for a product or service that gives us one month, three months, six months or unlimited access to online services. Most of us have bought products (software and hardware) that require a connection to XBOX LIVE or PLAYSTATION STORE, which is impossible as there is no such service for ROMANIA.

Dear representatives at MICROSOFT, SONY and NINTENDO, when the products named above were launched, you promised us an experience like never seen before, with online multiplayer, online chat, online tournaments, news, downloads, updates and online support. How can we have that unbelievable experience if you don't allow us to access those services?

So, we, the ROMANIAN owners of products you sold us, kindly ask you to give us what we paid for. We ask for nothing more than what you promised when we bought your products. We honestly believe this is a win-win situation for all of us. And as a proof to you that we are not just 5 or 10 people, we will sign below.

Thank you in advance for your understanding and listening to the gaming community from ROMANIA.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

...3 years later and nothing happened....Read more here (Romanian language only) !

[tomboland]

CAPSLOCK BLAAAAAAAUUUUUUGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[tomboland]

and its not that simple

[kushlius]

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tomboland wrote:
and its not that simple

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Its simple. Please dont start that nonsence about copyrights, currency etc. Its plain simple, everyone can do it why sony cant?

[tomboland]

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kushlius wrote:

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tomboland wrote:
and its not that simple

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Its simple. Please dont start that nonsence about copyrights, currency etc. Its plain simple, everyone can do it why sony cant?

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But thing is its not nonsense

[CrustyJockStrap]

It' all to do with licensing.

We in the UK suffer compared to the US, Japan and Canada.

Granted it is not as bad as your country but it is still their.

It all comes down to who owns the licence in your country and if they are willing for it to be used.

Also it comes down to country laws of what can and can;t be used.

To put the blame on Sony Microsoft and Nintendo is wrong as it is not them with holding anything it is the companies that hold the licence to the said media and individual laws from individual country's.

[Lithics]

The following services are unavailable for Romanian users:

• What’s New
• PlayStation Home
• PlayStation Plus subscription
• PlayStation Store

Everything under the message “This service is not available in your country/region.”

….and that means that you cannot buy the downloadable game add-ons like map packs for Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Battlefield Bad Company 2 series and many, many other games and you will remain with the retail game and that’s all (you will be kick from servers when a non-default map is loaded).

I don’t speak about services or technical support in Romanian language because I don’t care about that. I just speak about the online provided services for all users.

Thank you!

[Renwick_hu]

I know it's frustrating, but you still have the opportunity to register an UK account, and voilá!, you can purchase all of the extra contents from PlayStation Store, just like everyone else in the UK...

(Don't get me wrong, I live in Hungary, and we also don't have the store and so on)...

[Razvus]

wait so, I can make another account, select Uk as country and everything is peachy?

*and by that I mean, can I purchase games from the store or what it's supposed to do normally.

[mattyg89]

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Razvus wrote:

wait so, I can make another account, select Uk as country and everything is peachy?

*and by that I mean, can I purchase games from the store or what it's supposed to do normally.

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Pretty much, but you'll probably need to buy UK PSN vouchers if you want to buy anything from the store