So can someone tell me why changing store region can be done only after 3 months

[WhiteHornedRatMessiah]

You may not update your Steam account's country more than once every 3 months. Please complete this purchase using a payment method from your current region.

[J4MESOX4D]

To stop people easily flitting between regions to get games cheaper.

[WhiteHornedRatMessiah]

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

To stop people easily flitting between regions to get games cheaper.

Damn but people have online key sites for that :S

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Joe:

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

To stop people easily flitting between regions to get games cheaper.

Damn but people have online key sites for that :S

Regional lock keys exist.

[Pscht]

Whatever you come up with and you think is really clever, people have tried it before and Steam plugged that hole.

People trying ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is why normal users have to jump through so many hoops, so thanks for that.

[Memorex]

Originally posted by Joe:

You may not update your Steam account's country more than once every 3 months. Please complete this purchase using a payment method from your current region.

long time ago people abused that trick, buyin or trading with other steam users from 3rd or 4th world country where games cost $4.99 while your country's price is $49.99 so they changed regions to buy cheap and jump back.

[WhiteHornedRatMessiah]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Originally posted by Joe:

Damn but people have online key sites for that :S

Regional lock keys exist.

even for global?

[WhiteHornedRatMessiah]

Originally posted by BlightTide:

Originally posted by Joe:

You may not update your Steam account's country more than once every 3 months. Please complete this purchase using a payment method from your current region.

long time ago people abused that trick, buyin or trading with other steam users from 3rd or 4th world country where games cost $4.99 while your country's price is $49.99 so they changed regions to buy cheap and jump back.

Isnt that your countries fault for having that tax so high and have a nice Cost of living?
Like for honest people in 2nd world maybe 3rd world countries to buy games in US/Euro/ Pounds its more than what you pay not including transaction cost and other costs depending on banks....

[Anonymous Helper]

Originally posted by Joe:

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Regional lock keys exist.

even for global?

Steam can stop providing global keys if it feels they are abused too much like they already did with global gift cards. Steam will keep adding restrictions until system can no longer be abused. They already stopped providing gift cards in certain regions and most recently started flagging accounts with wallet gifting restrictions permanently disabling account's ability to gift using wallet funds.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Joe:

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Regional lock keys exist.

even for global?

Region lock keys are keys only meant to redeem in said region, they're not global keys, normally region lock keys be cheaper than global because need account to be set to said region in order to use them.

When people try to abuse regional pricing, that why region lock became a thing, to deter people from trying to abuse pricing, what happen in the end when some people that want to ruin it for others the people that has regional pricing have to pay the price because someone want to bypass regional pricing, by ruining regional pricing either having it to be removed, or raising the prices on them making it even more costly on them. Would you say that fair on them they now have to pay even more because someone want to ruin it for them?

Originally posted by Joe:

Originally posted by BlightTide:

long time ago people abused that trick, buyin or trading with other steam users from 3rd or 4th world country where games cost $4.99 while your country's price is $49.99 so they changed regions to buy cheap and jump back.

Isnt that your countries fault for having that tax so high and have a nice Cost of living?
Like for honest people in 2nd world maybe 3rd world countries to buy games in US/Euro/ Pounds its more than what you pay not including transaction cost and other costs depending on banks....

The problem is clowns want to bypass regional pricing, and ruin it for everyone else, which you can see EA, and some publishers are bit reluctant of offering regional pricing to some countires, hence the problem where people that want the games, can't because it cost them nearly month pay.

[Satoru]

Any REAL store will sell you an appropriate key for your region

When you use a shady cd key shop, that 'forces' you to change your region to actually use the thing you bought, then maybe the issue is not the fact htat you're not allowed to change your region, but more with the store that is forcing you to do something you're not supposed to do

[Chika Ogiue]

Originally posted by Joe:

even for global?

Yes, keys often labelled as "global" or "row (rest of world)" are inevitably locked in at least one region.

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

When people try to abuse regional pricing, that why region lock became a thing

Region locks existed WAY before that. They existed long before Steam was even a thing. The original CD release of Baldur's Gate 2 was region locked. It detected the version of Windows on your system and would refuse to run if it was specific versions.

[Darkslayer16]

A better question would be why would you need to change it that often

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

When people try to abuse regional pricing, that why region lock became a thing

Region locks existed WAY before that. They existed long before Steam was even a thing. The original CD release of Baldur's Gate 2 was region locked. It detected the version of Windows on your system and would refuse to run if it was specific versions.

I know it been a thing way before Steam exist, but what I said isn't wrong either.

[Chika Ogiue]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

I know it been a thing way before Steam exist, but what I said isn't wrong either.

Even on Steam regional restrictions and regional locking was a thing LONG before local currencies and local pricing were introduced.

[ReBoot]

See it this way: changing your store location is best used for when you move there permanently, not over the weekend. I remember buying a game from the German steam store (that's where I live) from the Netherlands, using my German PayPal account.

You don't permanently change living places every month. You may go someplace else for a while but unless you're going to actually stay there, you shall not change your store location.