will I get banned if I buy game abroad? (solved)

[Ritter Ayla]

I am currently travelling to a different country from that in which I usually am, while I am here I might buy a game. Will Steam ban my account for doing this since the currency in this region is more expensive than the one I am usually in?

I dont want Steam to think I am commiting fraud by buying a game here where it might be more expensive than were I usually am.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

You don't need to change your country setting if you are only traveling.

[Ritter Ayla]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

You don't need to change your country setting if you are only traveling.

:qr:

Right, But the plan is to maybe buys games too while I am here, will that be alright?

[The Giving One]

"What if I am traveling and the product I am trying to purchase has a note about region restrictions?"

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1266-QFZC-2141

As the good Hotsauce said.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Malivamar:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

You don't need to change your country setting if you are only traveling.

Right, But the plan is to maybe buys games too while I am here, will that be alright?

Since you don't need to change anything, no. It should not be a problem.

[Ritter Ayla]

Alright thanks, now theres one extra thing. I might be able to stay and live in this place I travalled too, not sure if that will work out yet. How long until Steam decides that I must change the store currency to the local one?

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Malivamar:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

You don't need to change your country setting if you are only traveling.

:qr:

Right, But the plan is to maybe buys games too while I am here, will that be alright?

The plan is to defraud Steam? So... yeah that's gonna end real well for ya.
They'll think it's fraud because it IS.

[Ritter Ayla]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Originally posted by Malivamar:

Right, But the plan is to maybe buys games too while I am here, will that be alright?

The plan is to defraud Steam? So... yeah that's gonna end real well for ya.
They'll think it's fraud because it IS.

Exactly, thats why I'm asking if I can buy that game or if I should abstain until I am sure whether I am staying or not. Because I dont want that to happen but the game i want (Rome TW) is on sale

[The Giving One]

Traveling and "staying" is one thing, making the new location your place of residence is another.

The support page says "where you permanently reside", so it seems to me, that once you decide to become a legal resident of the place where you are visiting or traveling to, that then becomes your place of permanent residence.

Then again, I would not be "traveling" for years to that place, without becoming a resident and making it my new store location. So in the end, you have to decide what you are going to do.

[Fake]

Originally posted by Malivamar:

Exactly, thats why I'm asking if I can buy that game or if I should abstain until I am sure whether I am staying or not. Because I dont want that to happen but the game i want (Rome TW) is on sale

Pay in the currency that you are currently using. Problem solved.

[Ritter Ayla]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

Traveling and "staying" is one thing, making the new location your place of residence is another.

The support page says "where you permanently reside", so it seems to me, that once you decide to become a legal resident of the place where you are visiting or traveling to, that then becomes your place of permanent residence.

Then again, I would not be "traveling" for years to that place, without becoming a resident and making it my new store location. So in the end, you have to decide what you are going to do.

I am already a legal resident of the place I am at, but I havent been here in many years so my issue on wether I stay is money, but I dont have a credit card in this country anymore so idk if I need that for steam to accept that i moved, since the current one is for the previous country.

[Ritter Ayla]

Originally posted by Fake:

Originally posted by Malivamar:

Exactly, thats why I'm asking if I can buy that game or if I should abstain until I am sure whether I am staying or not. Because I dont want that to happen but the game i want (Rome TW) is on sale

Pay in the currency that you are currently using. Problem solved.

Ok, will steam let me pay in one currency with a foreign credit card?

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Originally posted by Malivamar:

Right, But the plan is to maybe buys games too while I am here, will that be alright?

The plan is to defraud Steam? So... yeah that's gonna end real well for ya.
They'll think it's fraud because it IS.

Where is it fraud to buy in a local store with local payment method when you are locally present?

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

Originally posted by Zekiran:

The plan is to defraud Steam? So... yeah that's gonna end real well for ya.
They'll think it's fraud because it IS.

Where is it fraud to buy in a local store with local payment method when you are locally present?

.... You know the answer to this. They do not have a bank account in that area = they are not in fact local to that area. It's that simple. If they had a payment method in that area? It'd be a different story.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Wallet cards are a local payment method.

If you create a steam account while on travel you literally have no other choice as to buy in the local store with a local payment method, as in wallet codes.

So it is not fraud in this situation, and can not suddenly be fraud doing the same just by the difference that you dont need to create an account.