Banned country's?

[Bromius]

which country's are banned from steam and games?

[HikariLight]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Golden Unicorn:

what about Russia and China on the space station, does the space station have full access to steam? i would imagine they do since its a international space station.

The scientists on the ISS do not have the time to play computer games.
Their too busy doing experiments or taking care of their physical health.

[HikariLight]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Kargor:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Lokiator:

Based on my understanding of the sanctions, Russians can download and play any older games that they already own, but can't buy any new ones.

And even that's not because of a "Russians may not buy western videogames" sanction -- is because Steam wants money, and Russia has been cut off the global monetary system.

The international banking systems have joined the sanctions and unless a country (like Chine does) does direct business with Russia or Belarus they cannot buy or sell anything online.
But the same goes the other way too, people outside of Russia and Belarus cannot buy or sell anything with those two countries.

But the players can still access the games and the servers of those game that they already own.

[HikariLight]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bromius:

which country's are banned from steam and games?

Iran is simply under sanctions like Russia and Belarus.
North Korea is the only banned country, but that is because anything from outside of North Korea is not allowed, so it's simply banned from inside the country, not by Steam.

[Lokaror]

Huh. Curious if anyone knows, does the cuba embargo effect steam at all?

[Satoru]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Lokaror:

Huh. Curious if anyone knows, does the cuba embargo effect steam at all?

Ursprünglich geschrieben von HikariLight:

Iran is simply under sanctions like Russia and Belarus.
North Korea is the only banned country, but that is because anything from outside of North Korea is not allowed, so it's simply banned from inside the country, not by Steam.

It actually easy to see which countries Steam is not able to business in via the download statistics

https://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

Regions with a black color are unavailable for that reason

These are regions where the US has actual broad economic sanctions. It's a common misconception that sanctions against Russia impact steam. They do not. Russian sanctions target very specific industries like military and energy sectors, but steam doesn't fall into any of those categories in Russia.

You can see countries that have broad economic sanctions such as

* Cuba
* Myanmar
* Iran
* Syria
* North Korea

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Ursprünglich geschrieben von HikariLight:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Golden Unicorn:

what about Russia and China on the space station, does the space station have full access to steam? i would imagine they do since its a international space station.

The scientists on the ISS do not have the time to play computer games.
Their too busy doing experiments or taking care of their physical health.

lol what they are floating in a bubble the size of a small cubical, they all have plenty of time to play games on steam, in fact i am sure most of them that is all the do/

i can't relate to people in the world doing nothing but eating potato chips and playing video games in small rooms 24/7 and those space station people forced to be in small rooms 24/7 eat healthy and don't play video games? they clearly do play video games or they would have mental break downs due to lack of actual things to do while floating in a bubble for 18 months.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Golden Unicorn:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von HikariLight:

The scientists on the ISS do not have the time to play computer games.
Their too busy doing experiments or taking care of their physical health.

lol what they are floating in a bubble the size of a small cubical, they all have plenty of time to play games on steam, in fact i am sure most of them that is all the do/

i can't relate to people in the world doing nothing but eating potato chips and playing video games in small rooms 24/7 and those space station people forced to be in small rooms 24/7 eat healthy and don't play video games? they clearly do play video games or they would have mental break downs due to lack of actual things to do while floating in a bubble for 18 months.

Their PCs aren't designed for Steam and playing games.

[[TGSA] oujisan2236]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bromius:

which country's are banned from steam and games?

Steam doesnt ban countries

its the otherway around and a simple google search would answer your question

[Will]

Does China have access to our steam or do they have a censored version of steam?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Will:

Does China have access to our steam or do they have a censored version of steam?

Both. They have an official client for China but they can still use the international version they were using before Steam for China launched.

[Bromius]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Kargor:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Lokiator:

Based on my understanding of the sanctions, Russians can download and play any older games that they already own, but can't buy any new ones.

And even that's not because of a "Russians may not buy western videogames" sanction -- is because Steam wants money, and Russia has been cut off the global monetary system.

And yet they seem to be able to use steam and more, im sorry no disrespect but Russia should not have access at all for what they have done to people but thats how i feel sorry

[Taebrythn]

also if certain games are banned in certain countries then blame the countries for banning games not publishers. Germany i know has banned some.

[Max]

Lol they banned ppl who have best hackers gl with that, they shot on their feet xd

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Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bromius:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Kargor:

And even that's not because of a "Russians may not buy western videogames" sanction -- is because Steam wants money, and Russia has been cut off the global monetary system.

And yet they seem to be able to use steam and more, im sorry no disrespect but Russia should not have access at all for what they have done to people but thats how i feel sorry

Sounds like a personal issue you will have to overcome.

[Max]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von The Living Tribunal:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bromius:

And yet they seem to be able to use steam and more, im sorry no disrespect but Russia should not have access at all for what they have done to people but thats how i feel sorry

Sounds like a personal issue you will have to overcome.

these people always hypocritical they alwasy say ex001 country is bad but they support/buy from ex002 bad rep country because oil or money becouse it dosn't hurt them, only bad country when they hurt.