If I buy ff13 in another area by vpn,for example, America, will my account be banned?

[30亿贝利的尼卡]

In China,I cant buy ff13 in steam store

[Villanelle]

i dont think so

[Ogami]

If you mean buy the game in another Steam Shop with VPN then YES, that will result in a account ban.
Steam considers that fraud.
Just buy the game from an keyshop that sells international Steam keys. Those will work anywhere in the world even if your region does not have the game.
Take a look around here:

https://isthereanydeal.com/


All stores listed there are authorized steam resellers.

[mimizukari]

yes. it will, VPN for buying games is not allowed. or for playing.

[30亿贝利的尼卡]

thanks for everyone ,and what about buy key in american amazon? Is it allowed?

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

Originally posted by EvilWith1n:

In China,I cant buy ff13 in steam store

Because the communist party view it as way too dangerous with fantasy? With Japanese "propaganda"?

[Ogami]

Originally posted by EvilWith1n:

thanks for everyone ,and what about buy key in american amazon? Is it allowed?

Sure.

[30亿贝利的尼卡]

Originally posted by Etnopluralism / Aliquis:

Originally posted by EvilWith1n:

In China,I cant buy ff13 in steam store

Because the communist party view it as way too dangerous with fantasy? With Japanese "propaganda"?

no...we can buy ff12,ff7 and many other japanese company' games, but ff13 locked chinese region, for no reason...

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

I would be surprised if Amazon sell Steam games to a Chinese address though because they are likely only allowed to sell to .. whatever limited American areas and maybe can't guarantee the game will run or activate in your region if you buy it somewhere else. If I visit Amazon.com with a Swedish adress they would just inform me that they don't sell the game to my region/country.

As long as the adress is American Amazon will of course sell the game but if you aren't going to use/activate the game while in America you still risk not being able to activate the key or being able to run the game.

I don't know if the system may be more allowing with activating a more expensive region key than a cheaper one though. Maybe keys from Europe but maybe also America activate almost everywhere whereas keys from South-America and some parts of East-Asia and CIS nations doesn't activate in the EU or US?

Even if you can get the purchase to pass through and even if you're not banned you risk ending up with a key you can't use. Hopefully if it activates you can play it and if it doesn't maybe you could find someone else who want to take it instead.

[30亿贝利的尼卡]

Originally posted by Etnopluralism / Aliquis:

I would be surprised if Amazon sell Steam games to a Chinese address though because they are likely only allowed to sell to .. whatever limited American areas and maybe can't guarantee the game will run or activate in your region if you buy it somewhere else. If I visit Amazon.com with a Swedish adress they would just inform me that they don't sell the game to my region/country.

As long as the adress is Amercian Amazon will of course sell the game but if you aren't going to use/activate the game while in America you still risk not being able to activate the key or being able to run the game.

I don't know if the system may be more allowing with activating a more expensive region key than a cheaper one though. Maybe keys from Europe but maybe also America activate almost everywhere whereas keys from South-America and some parts of East-Asia and CIS nations doesn't activate in the EU or US?

Even if you can get the purchase to pass through and even if you're not banned you risk ending up with a key you can't use. Hopefully if it activates you can play it and if it doesn't maybe you could find someone else who want to take it instead.

thanks for your explain, maybe the best way is wait for SE to unlock it.

[Ogami]

Again, just buy the game from one of the stores listed in the link i gave above. All those shop sell regionfree steam keys. Final Fantasy 13 is not regionlocked its just not available in your shop region.
That is a big difference. You can still activate a normal key for the game.
I done that dozens of times with games that are not available here in Germany because of violence or something else. Those keys still activate normally even if you cant buy the game here.

[30亿贝利的尼卡]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Again, just buy the game from one of the stores listed in the link i gave above. All those shop sell regionfree steam keys. Final Fantasy 13 is not regionlocked its just not available in your shop region.
That is a big difference. You can still activate a normal key for the game.
I done that dozens of times with games that are not available here in Germany because of violence or something else. Those keys still activate normally even if you cant buy the game here.

thanks,im tryinig to use this website, it's little hard to read an english website

[TrueMan]

i dont think so my friende

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

Originally posted by EvilWith1n:

Originally posted by Etnopluralism / Aliquis:

Because the communist party view it as way too dangerous with fantasy? With Japanese "propaganda"?

no...we can buy ff12,ff7 and many other japanese company' games, but ff13 locked chinese region, for no reason...

https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/final-fantasy-xiii/
"Chinese & Korean text You will receive the Package that applies to your country of purchase."
I wonder if that is the text of GMG or the game somewhere else.
I wonder if that one activates in China or not, the webpage doesn't say anything specifically and I guess on GMG maybe any address is fine.
So maybe try there rather than on Amazon at-least if the price is the same / as good?

Do you wan the best price ever or is current prices just fine? I assume it's been discounted before and will be again for a lower price.

Here's the current best price in my EU1 region according to Isthereanydeal:
https://fr.gamesplanet.com/game/final-fantasy-xiii-steam-key--2673-1?ref=itad
But the GMG webpage talked about texts being chinese depending on the region. I assume you won't get chinese text with this one.

Lowest price ever for my region has been Amazon according to isthereanydeal.

I wonder if this game was part of a bundle and if so I have it too or not.

Are you fine with English text? Would you prefer Chinese?

Originally posted by EvilWith1n:

thanks,im tryinig to use this website, it's little hard to read an english website

I assume _IF_ GMG allow you to buy the game and _IF_ their webpage make a claim which seem to suggest you'd get Chinese text then IF it doesn't work and doesn't give you Chinese text then maybe you could ask them for a refund and actually get that. Because then it would seem like they have screwed up / the marketing is false / flawed.

.. now if only I had given you a referal link too .. ;D
Or maybe they had stopped with those?

https://www.greenmangaming.com/refund-policy/
I don't know if the language claim could be a reason even if the key activates. I don't know if the game will have Chinese text or not.

Of course maybe it's better you do as Ogami said and visit isthereanydeal.com and let it set / set the region to the one you actually are on than going with mine which happen to be EU1 and see for yourself :), maybe there's better prices closer to where you are than GMG and French Gamesplanet :). Good luck!
Personally I feel like the game likely should be cheaper in the Chinese market than the EU market.