Bleh, someone has to say it. It's all because of culture, could be the culture of the game in those versions, not necessarily the culture of the country. I remember I used to play this golf MMO called Albatross / Pangya that was all tea and cookies until the company bought the brazilian provider of the game. Suddenly we were flooded with cheats, in-game currency begging in the chats. The admins made it clear that such behavior was forbidden but eventually ended up banning all south american IPs IIRC. Bad move because I lived in Chile back then, and I wasn't gonna set up a VPN just to play that game.