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I would need one to start a Volksinitiative that says that...

a) all software sold in Switzerland must contain French, Italian and German language or otherwise clearly note it on the box for retail or on the store page for digital distribution.
and
b) any Software that fails to do so has a right to be refunded even if the box is already opened. If this leads to the copy being not able to be sold again, the publisher has to refund also the money to the retail store.

After the inacceptable things Bethesda did, this seems necessary.
Post edited May 20, 2014 by Protoss
What did they do? I only play their Elder Scrolls games (including Fallout, which is just Elder Scrolls: Now With Radiation) and those have always had the standard FRIGS support.
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OneFiercePuppy: What did they do? I only play their Elder Scrolls games (including Fallout, which is just Elder Scrolls: Now With Radiation) and those have always had the standard FRIGS support.
They sold a game that had only German language because apparently everyone in Switzerland speaks German. They did NOT clearly mark it on the box.
Also, nazis were censored out there due to German (!) laws. Apparently they thought they sell the censored version also in countries where they have no reason to do so, to get the money for localization back in or I don't know why.

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/careful_with_wolfenstein_if_you_live_in_austria_switzerland_or_czech_republic
Post edited May 20, 2014 by Protoss
I went to buying games online (or abroad) for the opposite problem : I couldn't find games in their original versions, and the boxes didn't always warn me that they only contained some terrible french and german localisation instead of the expected decent acting.

So, yeah, I'd have voted for the counter-project : have all boxes mention the featured languages, which must at least include the original one.
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Telika: I went to buying games online (or abroad) for the opposite problem : I couldn't find games in their original versions, and the boxes didn't always warn me that they only contained some terrible french and german localisation instead of the expected decent acting.

So, yeah, I'd have voted for the counter-project : have all boxes mention the featured languages, which must at least include the original one.
Can you start the Volksinitiative then? I can't because I'm not Swiss, I presume.
Buying a game about world war 2 in Germany and not trading someone from another country for a non-region restricted copy...have you not already been burned many times before to not realize this would happen again? :P
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Protoss: ...
I'm Swiss so I could technically start a Volksinitiative tomorrow if I wanted but you need to collect at least 100'000 signatures within 18 months (more info) and I doubt I would be able to find 100'000 people who give a damn about games, I mean there's a handful of us here on GOG but gamers who care enough to sign such an initiative seem to be typically lurking inside buildings and mostly up at night so it's probably quite impossible to hunt them all down without doing some breaking & entering.

Besides, it's very difficult to start an initiative without the support and resources of one of the two mainstream parties, the liberal SP/PS or the conservative SVP/UDC. And even if you can mobilize one of those parties, the other side will cockblock your efforts. The political landscape used to be more interesting here but in recent years it's been the same crap as in the US with two parties dominating the field and being categorically against anything that even remotely smells like being from the other side. Facts and arguments have close to zero relevance and every time one side loses, the other side is trigger happy and if they win the other side will get revenge next time etc, it's just kindergarten. Making an initiative would be like playing Russian Roulette with 3 bullets in the chamber.
A relative of mine had the idea to start a new political party that would be called Party of Reason or something like that (we're both non partisan at the moment) but he's got too much crap to deal with and so does probably everyone else who's in possession of a halfway reasonable mind which is why -unfortunately- the nation is firmly entrenched in a nonsensical and boring tug of war between left and right, losing a lot of efficiency, momentum and resources in the process and not really progressing at a satisfactory rate.
Post edited May 20, 2014 by awalterj