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"You agree that you will not use IP proxying or other methods to disguise the place of your residence, whether to circumvent geographical restrictions on game content, to purchase at pricing not applicable to your geography, or for any other purpose. If you do this, Valve may terminate your access to your Account.": from Subscriber Agreement
RU/CIS is a "region" that normally receives a unified subscription for some games. the whole region is infested with piracy and scam and to minimize profit loss, it is mostly handled as an own entity. when i say infested, russia was and still is responsible for 1/3 of the global piracy.
there is no specific store for any region, the dev can setup different restrictions for every single country if they want and can also apply and change those at later times. for RU/CIS this is just more widely known and applied.
CIS countries pay in USD with a seperate price, set by the dev.
as example:
https://steamdb.info/app/200710/subs/ torchlight2
Your store location is bound to your profile. You can change it in your account settings, but you need to provide a payment method which fits your new location.
So if were to travel to Russia and want to buy a game on Steam, you still use your original region for everything.
If you get hod on a Russian payment method and succesfully purchase from the Russian store, you will most likely not be able to enjoy your purchase once back home since it's locked to RUS/CIS and you'd need a VPN to circumvent it - which will endanger your account as posted above.
I forgot about region locks. Not all countries have them though, right? So if I travel to psydesville and use psydebux, and get it cheaper, then come home to usa, what then?
Region locks are not region specific but game specific.
A game can have region restrictions applied to it such as "don't start for the following regions", "not yet released for the following regions" or stuff like this. Sometimes games have different versions available in different regions. There is no general answer to this.
But again: you'd have to change your account's country to even access those games, which is a hassle in itself. If you're just travelling, there is no problem as you still use your native storefront.
You just change your store country then, like told in
Also known as buying wallet codes. You buy them in Russia, they are rubles. They are also all universal, at least the ones i've seen. So if you have some left over and go back home, you can convert your wallet back and use them later, Steam automatically does the conversion just like it did for whatever was left in your wallet.
That's exactly what happens.
If you move, for example to Germany, you wouldn't be able to access the games that are forbidden there. (Taking Germany as an example because they don't allow a lot of games there)
Or if you lived in Russia and bought a lot of cheap games and moved to somewhere else, you wouldn't be able to play them. You'd have to re-buy them.
Sucky but that's how it works.
You sure that wallet codes count? The FAQ states "you must complete your next purchase with a payment method tied to an address within the United States". Steam wallet is not tied to any country, which makes me doubt it.
Yeah, bad example with Germany.
First: no game is forbidden here. The sale, advertising, and in some extreme cases import is restricted, but not ownership or usage.
Which brings us to number two: It is highly game dependend. There are publishers who actually give a ♥♥♥♥ about the system and some falsly assume and go nuclear. Some games are just not available on the store but can be gifted and then used as normal. Others can't be activated. Very few cannot be launched at all. It all depends on the game and its restrictions.