Why has Steam removed region locked warning on store pages?

[himmatsj]

Previously, if a game was region locked, Steam would clearly indicate it to be the case on the Store page. But that's not the case anymore.

[Perrywinkle]

maybe this time just dont show regin locked games in the store and only shows the apropiate ones in you region,i ont really think of you receive the ad news after the purchase.
see you!!!!!!

[Black Blade]

i think i may not understand you, as much as i know you cant even go into a store page that is not on your area no?

[ KARR™]

Sucy Manbavaran eredeti hozzászólása:

maybe this time just dont show regin locked games in the store and only shows the apropiate ones in you region,

That's not the point. Yes you may be able to buy it to play here, but what if you are currently on holiday and when you get HOME again, you wouldn't be able to play it because it is region locked elsewhere?

If they have removed it, then that's worrying for people that do go to more than country.

[Black Blade]

ᴷᴬᴿᴿ eredeti hozzászólása:

That's not the point. Yes you may be able to buy it to play here, but what if you are currently on holiday and when you get HOME again, you wouldn't be able to play it because it is region locked elsewhere?

If they have removed it, then that's worrying for people that do go to more than country.

Do games that you own get locked if you go to a holiday somewhere else?
Over all you cant buy outside of your country Store, even if you go some were else you have to use a link to use your Home reguin store page

so i may be miss understanding something here?

[Satoru]

BO2 stil has the region lock warning in RU/CIS

You'd need to give a clear example of where it should be presented but is not. I've also disabled Enhanced Steam and the warning persists on BO2 so it's not the addon that's generating the warning

[himmatsj]

Satoru eredeti hozzászólása:

BO2 stil has the region lock warning in RU/CIS

You'd need to give a clear example of where it should be presented but is not. I've also disabled Enhanced Steam and the warning persists on BO2 so it's not the addon that's generating the warning

Check Thief. http://store.steampowered.com/app/239160

I noticed a few others as well.

[himmatsj]

Black Blade eredeti hozzászólása:

ᴷᴬᴿᴿ eredeti hozzászólása:

That's not the point. Yes you may be able to buy it to play here, but what if you are currently on holiday and when you get HOME again, you wouldn't be able to play it because it is region locked elsewhere?

If they have removed it, then that's worrying for people that do go to more than country.

Do games that you own get locked if you go to a holiday somewhere else?
Over all you cant buy outside of your country Store, even if you go some were else you have to use a link to use your Home reguin store page

so i may be miss understanding something here?

Actually, in most cases no. Region lock only applies to activation, but not anytime thereafter, so you can continue playing it abroad with no issues. But if you are Russian, then yeah quite a number of AAA games won't work at all outside Russia.

But this is more relevant for trading/gifting.

[Black Blade]

himmatsj eredeti hozzászólása:

Actually, in most cases no. Region lock only applies to activation, but not anytime thereafter, so you can continue playing it abroad with no issues. But if you are Russian, then yeah quite a number of AAA games won't work at all outside Russia.

But this is more relevant for trading/gifting.

Ok thanks
So just asking, is these something that show only on the russian store? i do not think i ever seen a region lock message on any game..

[himmatsj]

Black Blade eredeti hozzászólása:

himmatsj eredeti hozzászólása:

Actually, in most cases no. Region lock only applies to activation, but not anytime thereafter, so you can continue playing it abroad with no issues. But if you are Russian, then yeah quite a number of AAA games won't work at all outside Russia.

But this is more relevant for trading/gifting.

Ok thanks
So just asking, is these something that show only on the russian store? i do not think i ever seen a region lock message on any game..

Regions where games are cheaper have region locks. South East Asia, Russia + CIS and Brazil are usually the regions.

[Satoru]

The thing is I've seen tinsg where the Steam version is unlcoked but RETAIL copies are region locked. So it can be confusing

[himmatsj]

Satoru eredeti hozzászólása:

The thing is I've seen tinsg where the Steam version is unlcoked but RETAIL copies are region locked. So it can be confusing

No Thief is really region locked. Like I said, there are others, but I can't recall and list the lot of them here. Previously, all of them had the warning.

[Spawn of Totoro]

I'll pass it on. I'm sure removal of such a warning wouldn't have been intentional.

[himmatsj]

Spawn of Totoro eredeti hozzászólása:

I'll pass it on. I'm sure removal of such a warning wouldn't have been intentional.

Ok thanks. The other games off the top of my head are Shadow of Mordor, Borderlands Pre Sequel, Wolfenstein and Civilization Beyond Earth.

I think it is intentional though, just not communicated to us why.

[himmatsj]

Spawn of Totoro eredeti hozzászólása:

I'll pass it on. I'm sure removal of such a warning wouldn't have been intentional.

Any word back Totoro?

[Spawn of Totoro]

himmatsj eredeti hozzászólása:

Any word back Totoro?

Nope. I'm not guarnteed an answer though, just like everyone else. I meantiond it and that is all I can do. :-( Wish I had something more to tell you.