Why the hell did EA pull Inquisition from India?!!! First the physical disc was not available, so I preordered it a month ago via Origin. Then today I got an email saying that the game had been withdrawn from India due to "local copyright laws" and I was being refunded! I am a long standing fan of the series and have been tracking Inquisition since 2012. To be told that I can't have it just a day before release is depressing beyond measure. What happened? Why did EA do this?
As far as I know, Indian Government banned the game because of gay themes, I dont think its EA's fault. I know whats the feeling is this: waiting so much for a game that you fall in love and BAM "game is not available for your region" I also get this crap on Steam too. But since Indian government is little bit restrictive about things like this (but they allowing lesbian romance, dem logic) I think they did the right thing BUT this way also block everyone in India playing the game. Cant they just censor the gay scenes?
Companies like BioWare are Universal-Thinkers which means romance/death/sex/war for everyone by all means in their games. While this sounds reasonable, some governments dont appreciate their kids seeing that content. Personally, I'm a guy in real life- I can watch female to female romance but not gay one.
This is just what I saw on google while searching web sites about gameplay, please dont take this any offensive comment since I'm not %100 sure about this, just wanted share this and my opinion.
NOTE: When politics matter, politicians can hide behind the laws. so I dont believe local copyright laws.