Steam region change and account lock help

[𝙶𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝]

Hello everyone! I'll try to explain the situation in short. I live in an Asian country.

I have a friend in Russia. He wants my account for 2 months and I have no problems giving my account username and password to him. Although I'm concerned if there's a possibility of my account getting locked due to the sudden change in countries ? He wouldn't be making any purchase on my account, all he wants to do is play my games, the ones that cannot be unlocked via family share- Rainbow Six Siege etc

Would it really be a problem? Could I be banned from steam permanently ?
Would he have to update the store preferences at all after logging in from Russia ? Or can I leave the store region to my original country ( Asian country ) and he'd be able to use my account well ?

Of course, there would be no usage of VPN from any side.

[Wolf Knight]

account sharing is NOT allowed and is a violation of the SSA. all violations of the SSA are grounds for all related accounts to be locked/terminated

is this a real life friend or some random person you have never met?

[Nx Machina]

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[Zekiran]

Originally posted by 𝙶𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝:

Would it really be a problem? Could I be banned from steam permanently ?

Yes. All of your accounts might be.

[𝙶𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝]

Originally posted by Wolf Knight:

account sharing is NOT allowed and is a violation of the SSA. all violations of the SSA are grounds for all related accounts to be locked/terminated

is this a real life friend or some random person you have never met?

Yes it is a real life friend, I do trust him. I understand that it's wrong to share accounts but just for information, I'm curious how Steam would actually figure out it's 2 different people, I mean I could be traveling ( under normal circumstances when there's no virus ) to a different country and playing games, wouldn't it be the same thing ? - Traveling to a different country and playing there or someone from a different country logging in.

I do get however that sharing accounts is illegal and shouldn't be allowed

[Zekiran]

You literally saying you are doing it is one massive clue...

Account sharing OR selling can be detected on their end. They will not likely TELL anyone 'how' it's being detected, so that people doing those things cannot easily get around those methods of detection.

[𝙶𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

You literally saying you are doing it is one massive clue...

Account sharing OR selling can be detected on their end. They will not likely TELL anyone 'how' it's being detected, so that people doing those things cannot easily get around those methods of detection.

Yeah true, well I guess I won't be doing it now :[

[Zekiran]

You shouldn't have ever considered it, as it would absolutely be against the entire terms of use.

Your 'friend in russia' can get their own account made, it's free. If they want games, they can be bought.

[𝙶𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

You shouldn't have ever considered it, as it would absolutely be against the entire terms of use.

Your 'friend in russia' can get their own account made, it's free. If they want games, they can be bought.

Not everyone's fortunate enough to buy games like you but I get your point, thank you.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by 𝙶𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝:

Originally posted by Zekiran:

You shouldn't have ever considered it, as it would absolutely be against the entire terms of use.

Your 'friend in russia' can get their own account made, it's free. If they want games, they can be bought.

Not everyone's fortunate enough to buy games like you but I get your point, thank you.

He can be lucky then that he has a computer that can run r6s.

The game is 399 r at the moment.

[𝙶𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

Originally posted by 𝙶𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝:

Not everyone's fortunate enough to buy games like you but I get your point, thank you.

He can be lucky then that he has a computer that can run r6s.

The game is 399 r at the moment.

I didn't just denote R6 did I ? I mentioned etcetera, there are other games and well he has a 940mx, which doesn't even meet the minimum requirements of R6 but he still wants to play it lowering the resolution ( which works on his friend's PC ). Honestly your input was totally unneeded, I already marked the right answer for this topic. And yes, I'm pretty sure he feels lucky enough to own a 940mx but don't expect a person who's new to the gaming industry to just buy games here and there.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by 𝙶𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝:

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

He can be lucky then that he has a computer that can run r6s.

The game is 399 r at the moment.

Honestly your input was totally unneeded,

My input was about realizing what one has, and how to get something on a sale.

[𝙶𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

Originally posted by 𝙶𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝:

Honestly your input was totally unneeded,

My input was about realizing what one has, and how to get something on a sale.

He has 3 games- Modern Warfare 2, CSGO and Age of Empires and he's been playing them for a very long time so he got kinda bored. And this sale he might buy new stuff but he can't get a lot because he's got a student loan to pay for. Now compare that to my situation, I already own 97 games , a plenty lot more than what he owns and I don't have any problems in sharing it with him, that's all the main crux of this topic was. Deviating it to why he can't buy on sale etc is just totally uncalled for. The main problem is that I can't even family share the games because he can't login using my credentials.

[Muppet among Puppets]

I know that. But it was the best i could recommend.

[𝙶𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

I know that. But it was the best i could recommend.

Well, it's okay, I appreciate your reply, I do agree that slowly with time his library would increase, until then he just gotta be patient enough I guess :/

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