I bought a ROW region game and can't activate on Steam need help?

[GamerXtreme]

I bought a ROW region game and can't seem to activate it on Steam, can you guys please help me with activating it?.

I have been googling and I read it might take a while for it to accept my key. If that is true please let me know. Right now it says purchase canceled and not available when I enter my cd key in Steam game activation, I bought the game from Kinguin.

Please help I really want to play the game which is a NBA game.

Can you help me?.

[nullable]

Move to a region where you can activate the game. Or get a refund from the seller. If that doesn't work out, maybe be a bit more careful trying to get cheap games from sketchy grey market sites.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Don't buy key from shady site resellers.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Don't buy key from shady site resellers.

:qr:

^^ pretty much this. If you'd bought it from Steam in the first place, yeah you might have paid slightly more, but you would be assured that it's in your region.

[GamerXtreme]

Originally posted by Brockenstein:

Move to a region where you can activate the game. Or get a refund from the seller. If that doesn't work out, maybe be a bit more careful trying to get cheap games from sketchy grey market sites.

I never bought a ROW region game before and I am unable to activate it, How can I activate it?, some tips would be great.

Also I am gonna get a refund if I am unable to activate it. I looks like it is a correct key but will not activate for some reason.

Some help would be great.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by GamerFan12:

Originally posted by Brockenstein:

Move to a region where you can activate the game. Or get a refund from the seller. If that doesn't work out, maybe be a bit more careful trying to get cheap games from sketchy grey market sites.

I never bought a ROW region game before and I am unable to activate it, How can I activate it?, some tips would be great.

Also I am gonna get a refund if I am unable to activate it. I looks like it is a correct key but will not activate for some reason.

Some help would be great.

They lied. You can't.

[Zekiran]

Unless you bought it from Steam, you have NO recourse ON steam.

If you paid a store online or in a physical place with a credit card, you should do a chargeback because they won't give you that money voluntarily.

Steam had nothing to do with your off-steam purchase. It has nothing to give you now.

[nullable]

Originally posted by GamerFan12:

Originally posted by Brockenstein:

Move to a region where you can activate the game. Or get a refund from the seller. If that doesn't work out, maybe be a bit more careful trying to get cheap games from sketchy grey market sites.

I never bought a ROW region game before and I am unable to activate it, How can I activate it?, some tips would be great.

Also I am gonna get a refund if I am unable to activate it. I looks like it is a correct key but will not activate for some reason.

Some help would be great.

It's like you're aware I posted something. But as to the actual meaning, you haven't a clue.

There's not really a mystery here. You bought a game from a sketchy source that you're not eligible to activate. You see about a refund, but when dealing with sketchy grey market sites, I'm not holding my breath. If my pessimism is right, your "tip" would be stop trying to buy cheap games from sketchy grey market sites.

There's really not much to it.

[GamerXtreme]

I'll just get a refund.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by GamerFan12:

I'll just get a refund.

From the site? ... good luck. Hopefully they will honor it, but it's not Steam's problem, so make sure you don't try and get one from here for it...

[Jank Sinatra]

I am genuinely curious as to whether or not homie got his refund

[Nanami]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.