Deus Ex on PC is region locked

Kotaku reports that the PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, which is scheduled to be released any day now, will be region locked. It's all down to disc size and language files, Eidos says.

"Just to be clear to everyone the region lock is just for the retail BOX copies..," an admin on the official forums writes, explaining that digital copies will not suffer from the same problem. "ie if you physically buy a box in the UK it will have the uk region code etc, if you buy a boxed copy in russia will be locked to russia, everywhere else is covered by a rest of world region (including poland)."

Due to disc size limitations, the languages had to be split onto different masters (PCs dont have universal bluray drives yet so we couldnt put all on 1 disc this is why there is so much confusion)"

But what if you buy the game in the UK but still wants to play it in German, you ask? Don't fear, Eidos and the Internet to the rescue.

"Also all versions have ALL languages available. So even if you buy the English UK version, you can change the language to French, German etc whenever you want.. The size of the game meant we couldnt fit all languages onto the disc so you will just download the language pack for the game that is all.."