Store country

[the army of infinty]

how can steam detect if you are from real different countries honestly im from indonesia and accidently turn on the VPN and change the store country but haven't buy anything from the store can i get ban for this?

[Zekiran]

If they told people exactly 'how' they did that, cheaters and thieves would exploit it, now wouldn't they.

It doesn't matter how.

It matters that you should never be trying to exploit another country. You did not do this by accident.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

They will know. ToS violations aren't taken lightly.

Also read this...

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6627-QSNM-5276#currency

[Ogami]

You "accidently" pressed the button that said " Update store country to XXX" which prompts you to select a country from a drop down menu.
Then you "accidently" filled in all the billing information, including a legit address and name for the store country you switched to.
And then at the end when Steam again warns you about that those information need to be correct you pressed " Proceed" and switched store country.
All that while faking an IP address of that country via VPN.

Why dont i believe you?

[the army of infinty]

well i accidently change as US but i couldn't rapidly until i pass 10 june

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by the army of infinty:

well i accidently change as US but i couldn't rapidly until i pass 10 june

We know. Cooldowns and such. Read the linked info.

[the army of infinty]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by the army of infinty:

well i accidently change as US but i couldn't rapidly until i pass 10 june

We know. Cooldowns and such. Read the linked info.

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but how can i buy some steam games?,if my store country still on US

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by the army of infinty:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

We know. Cooldowns and such. Read the linked info.

but how can i buy some steam games?,if my store country still on US

Do NOT try to purchase anything until you can change it back.

[the army of infinty]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by the army of infinty:

but how can i buy some steam games?,if my store country still on US

Do NOT try to purchase anything until you can change it back.

:qr:

so i have to wait until i pass 10 june and then i can change my original state back?

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by the army of infinty:

how can steam detect if you are from real different countries honestly im from indonesia and accidently turn on the VPN and change the store country but haven't buy anything from the store

You can't just "accidently" change your account store region, in order to do so on Steam, you have to go into your account settings, then manually click on change store region, and then manually change the store to the country, meaning you manually selected the country, and manually confirm it, which that is not "accidently".

All sites, and etc have this problem they can't tell if someone claiming to be from so, and so by IP alone only, as that's the only infomation they can even go off on, and that's about it when visiting, or making the account using the said IP.

The only thing they can do is check if multiple sources using the same IP, and back checking if it's related to using a VPN/proxy service, beyond that, it's not possible to truely tell where someone from, unless they provide the said Details.

Some stores makes accounts base on what country you're from, and keep them fixed like that. For Steam, and etc, when you make your country, it will use the current IP to see what country your from, and lock your account to that country, to change your country, and store prices for the said country, is that you may need to provide information, such as billing address, and/or etc details to them.

Stores like PSN, Nintendo, or etc, they lock your account base by region, but you can still change your country as long within the region, like for America continent that Canada, USA, and other places in south America, for EU with Middle east, and then lastly Asia region, which you get the picture, and only way to change country from America, to EU is that you have to make a new whole account, or possibly may have to contact support for help if they provide that support feature to provide them information such as billing address, and/or etc details about yourself.

To keep this short, it's easy to spoof where your from, and there's no way for them to know where you're really from, unless they can verify you, but there's only so much information you can provide, and they can only go by what you say where you're from. If the whole world governments, or etc, wants more details from retails, and set new laws making those stores to collect those details, they have to ask everyone and provide them to thier governments, but that;s only if all whole world governments demands these things, then you be force to provide information that not easily spoof like your SIN / SSN, and etc, which yea that not going to be that simple to fake where you're from. But there is a key factor in place on some stores, may detect where your credit card company is from, and if you're claiming to be from said country, but using another country credit card, may get deny from being able to buy, or even change store region on the account, now that depends if the store has that feature.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by the army of infinty:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Do NOT try to purchase anything until you can change it back.

so i have to wait until i pass 10 june and then i can change my original state back?

Yes. And add a payment method from your home country.

[the army of infinty]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by the army of infinty:

so i have to wait until i pass 10 june and then i can change my original state back?

Yes. And add a payment method from your home country.

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but what happens if i play some games,could bad things happens to me?

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by the army of infinty:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Yes. And add a payment method from your home country.

but what happens if i play some games,could bad things happens to me?

Only buying is the problem for Steam, if you buy from another region that you're not from using VPN, proxy, or etc, to spoof where you're from, and Steam able to determine where you're from, they can either lock your account down from all future purchases, and losing some features, or worse case terminate your account. Some stores will terminate your account, or lock you out of the account from being able to use it any further. For example on console such as PS3, Xbox 360, or etc they can system ban you, meaning no account will ever work on that system, or account ban where you lose access to all games you bought digitally now all locked, and you can't use the account either.

[the army of infinty]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Originally posted by the army of infinty:

but what happens if i play some games,could bad things happens to me?

Only buying is the problem for Steam, if you buy from another region that you're not from using VPN, proxy, or etc, to spoof where you're from, and Steam able to determine where you're from, they can either lock your account down from all future purchases, and losing some features, or worse case terminate your account. Some stores will terminate your account, or lock you out of the account from being able to use it any further. For example on console such as PS3, Xbox 360, or etc they can system ban you, meaning no account will ever work on that system, or account ban where you lose access to all games you bought digitally now all locked, and you can't use the account either.

well so i'll guess i have to wait for until i pass 10 june

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

There's no reason to be switching country. If you're trying to see what prices are like in another country, use https://steamdb.info/ search the game name, then check the prices, and you see all the regions prices for the said game, this also works for softwares, movies, and DLC's.

[Zekiran]

It sounds more like you've already done this, and are now trying to figure out what might happen to your account.

Do nothing for that time. Nothing. Don't buy games.