Changing download region does not work

[⎛⎝ Necro Nexus ⎠⎞]

I live in China-Shanghai. Whenever i change download region(due to download speed fluctuation) to Korea and restarts steam, the setting is reverted back to Shanghai. Neither running as admin nor deleting some files helped. Any ideas?

[DirtyFishy]

Connections from China are forced to stay within the Chinese region.

I know a guy that lives in China, same deal with him.

[ACSlater2001]

China has a very restrictive internet law...as I'm sure you are well aware of if you are living in China. So yeah, what DirtyFishy said.

[⎛⎝ Necro Nexus ⎠⎞]

Originally posted by DirtyFishy:

Connections from China are forced to stay within the Chinese region.

I know a guy that lives in China, same deal with him.

I don't suppose vpn will do the trick, huh?

[ACSlater2001]

Originally posted by EOTS | Nemo nexus:

Originally posted by DirtyFishy:

Connections from China are forced to stay within the Chinese region.

I know a guy that lives in China, same deal with him.

I don't suppose vpn will do the trick, huh?

Nope, and if Valve catches you using a VPN, they will ban your account as it's against the ToS to do so.

[Tev]

Originally posted by EOTS | Nemo nexus:

Originally posted by DirtyFishy:

Connections from China are forced to stay within the Chinese region.

I know a guy that lives in China, same deal with him.

I don't suppose vpn will do the trick, huh?

Changing your region with a VPN is against the Steam Subscriber Agreement.

[⎛⎝ Necro Nexus ⎠⎞]

Originally posted by Teutep:

Originally posted by EOTS | Nemo nexus:

I don't suppose vpn will do the trick, huh?

Changing your region with a VPN is against the Steam Subscriber Agreement.

;_; ok then i guess i'll have to live with the current network

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[Caligo Clarus]

Originally posted by Teutep:

Originally posted by EOTS | Nemo nexus:

I don't suppose vpn will do the trick, huh?

Changing your region with a VPN is against the Steam Subscriber Agreement.

You people that don't know wth you're talking about can keep your incorrect "2 cents" to yourselves instead of wasting everyones time with WRONG information. It's 2015, yoru Steam region account is set by your payment source, not your current IP.

Since a Steam client update some weeks/months ago, the client attempts to identiy and use the nearest Steam server to your location, you are unable to change this to another country, at least if you are in China.

Several weeks ago, ALL Steam china servers have maxxed out around 40K or so download speeds for installing games.

EXCEPT if you route your traffic through another country e.g. VPN/Proxy, and even if you STILL USE China servers, then the download rate becomes uncapped.

I am not sure what the issue is, and the local Chinese community doesn't participate much here on the forums, so I am not sure if this will ever get back to Valve.




tl;dr:
1. Give up your inaccurate VPN threats please, Steam doesn't work that way anymore, region is based upon payment source.

2.Steam China servers only download game data at a max of few dozen Kbps for a few weeks now, UNLESS you route traffic (VPN) through another country first.

Hello, Kitty, Hello Steam Guangzhou server (same all of China w/o VPN, VPN AND China server is full speed):
http://i57.tinypic.com/2r3chw0.png