mirta000 2015 年 3 月 12 日 下午 9:13
regional restrictions - is it even legal?
If I move I'm not rebuying my steam library and at the same time if I purchased the product I think I'm entitled to own it. While I'm not planning moving out of EU anytime soon (still wondering trough countries though), if I ever do, I bloody hope that they have a good customer support in place to convert your region locked games as you go.

Otherwise everything that steam did trough out the years is pointless, because why use a digital convenient and legal way of getting games, if then you're restricted from ever leaving your region?
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mirta000 2015 年 3 月 12 日 下午 9:21 
is it? I hope it is. Having in mind that I'm moving backwards and forwards UK and Lithuania I have this fear that they'll either put a restriction somewhere in between these countries, or my games will show up as EU restricted, therefore if I ever got a job proposal in Canada I got to choose between working and keeping my steam library -_-;

either way, there have been suggestions on this from other people (such as being able to buy games more expensively to make sure that they're region unlocked) and I really don't think that this is the right way to battle illegal keys :I
mirta000 2015 年 3 月 12 日 下午 9:26 
having in mind that Lithuania is both in EU and Euro zone, so far I didn't run into problems. Hopefully it stayed region free.
mirta000 2015 年 3 月 12 日 下午 9:33 
Yep but still there are 2 zone in EU for price.

submitted a steam support ticket. Hopefully they'll respond soon.
mjhcsta 2015 年 3 月 13 日 上午 10:42 
This is disgusting...i bought myself Mortal Kombat X Premium Edition from cdkeys and it arrived with the whole restriction thing, the retailer wont give me a refund as its been over 2 days and they are clearly ignoring me via messages and now am stuck with a restricted Steam key/gift...am scared if i redeem it to my account i might not be able to even play it once release date comes also i dont want to have to result to using a VPN in order to play a game i legally bought!

This is a clear sign PC gaming is about to go back to the dark ages...i hope Valve clear this up and fix this for its users sakes...I for one will have two options after this...turn to the dark side or which back to Console gaming as at least then we have our rights as consumers to demand refunds and get real proper support for faulty games etc

Upto you Valve/Steam! I hope this gets resolved!

Would they rather keep selling games at a high rate or risk everyone pirating them? I am seriously disappointed about this!

Steam is almost more restricted than Consoles themselves at the rate there going...:spycon:
76561198001062896 2015 年 3 月 13 日 上午 11:03 
引用自 csta
This is disgusting...i bought myself Mortal Kombat X Premium Edition from cdkeys and it arrived with the whole restriction thing, the retailer wont give me a refund as its been over 2 days and they are clearly ignoring me via messages and now am stuck with a restricted Steam key/gift...am scared if i redeem it to my account i might not be able to even play it once release date comes also i dont want to have to result to using a VPN in order to play a game i legally bought!

This is a clear sign PC gaming is about to go back to the dark ages...i hope Valve clear this up and fix this for its users sakes...I for one will have two options after this...turn to the dark side or which back to Console gaming as at least then we have our rights as consumers to demand refunds and get real proper support for faulty games etc

Upto you Valve/Steam! I hope this gets resolved!

Would they rather keep selling games at a high rate or risk everyone pirating them? I am seriously disappointed about this!

Steam is almost more restricted than Consoles themselves at the rate there going...:spycon:
btw cdkeys is an unauthorised reseller FYI
Laptop 2015 年 3 月 13 日 上午 11:25 
引用自 csta
This is disgusting...i bought myself Mortal Kombat X Premium Edition from cdkeys and it arrived with the whole restriction thing, the retailer wont give me a refund as its been over 2 days and they are clearly ignoring me via messages and now am stuck with a restricted Steam key/gift...am scared if i redeem it to my account i might not be able to even play it once release date comes also i dont want to have to result to using a VPN in order to play a game i legally bought!

This is a clear sign PC gaming is about to go back to the dark ages...i hope Valve clear this up and fix this for its users sakes...I for one will have two options after this...turn to the dark side or which back to Console gaming as at least then we have our rights as consumers to demand refunds and get real proper support for faulty games etc

Upto you Valve/Steam! I hope this gets resolved!

Would they rather keep selling games at a high rate or risk everyone pirating them? I am seriously disappointed about this!

Steam is almost more restricted than Consoles themselves at the rate there going...:spycon:
You're not supposed to be buying from shady cd-key reselling sites...
belaerdei 2015 年 3 月 13 日 上午 11:42 
引用自 Laptop65
You're not supposed to be buying from shady cd-key reselling sites...
What about physical copys of the game?Clearly say on the box we need internet connection and we need to activate it on Steam.
Tito Shivan 2015 年 3 月 13 日 下午 12:09 
Stay calm.
Your library is fine, your purchases are fine, your future steam purchases are fine.
You may move tomorrow to a restricted region and you'll be able to play all your games fine.

Please refer and read the support article for the complete information:
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1266-QFZC-2141&l=English

From the article:
If you attempt to redeem a region restricted game and your location is inconsistent with your past Steam activity, a warning will appear.
最後修改者:Tito Shivan; 2015 年 3 月 13 日 下午 12:10
mjhcsta 2015 年 3 月 13 日 下午 6:50 
I managed to get a refund for my game just now thank god, am just a little worried as i am now scared this is limiting me to only buying from Steam themselves which no offence is a bit of a ♥♥♥♥ move by them to make...here was me thinking open platform buy my games from wherever and whoever i please...

I usually do buy everything off of Steam but for example GTAV is more expensive than the next gen console version so why do i want to pay a crazy overkill price for it via Steam when other sellers are selling it cheaper...

Sadly i cant help but fall for whose genuine or not...I've shopped with GMG, G2A, CDKEYS, EBAY, AMAZON, ONLIVE, NVIDIA HUB, as well as many more retailers but its hard to know when its safe to shop when your now telling me most if not all retailers are selling meh steam keys/gifts just because Valve doesn't like it lol

You'd think we were pirates or something lol seriously why do we even bother with Steam mean there support is complete garbage...I lost access to my Steam account and it took Valve/Steam 32 DAYS to reply to my support ticket to tell me if was my fault my account was hacked even though i had Steam Guard enabled since 20010 LMFAO

I now have a Vac Ban against my account because someone messed with it and i cant get a single word from support as they told me they refuse to help and any further messages sent to them will result in being unread...

Ive also posted on other social media sites about this as its indeed disgusting...Anyways rant over for now...:spycon:
supertrooper225 2015 年 3 月 13 日 下午 7:30 
引用自 eisberg
CDKeys, and the one

引用自 csta
I managed to get a refund for my game just now thank god, am just a little worried as i am now scared this is limiting me to only buying from Steam themselves which no offence is a bit of a ♥♥♥♥ move by them to make...here was me thinking open platform buy my games from wherever and whoever i please...

I usually do buy everything off of Steam but for example GTAV is more expensive than the next gen console version so why do i want to pay a crazy overkill price for it via Steam when other sellers are selling it cheaper...

Sadly i cant help but fall for whose genuine or not...I've shopped with GMG, G2A, CDKEYS, EBAY, AMAZON, ONLIVE, NVIDIA HUB, as well as many more retailers but its hard to know when its safe to shop when your now telling me most if not all retailers are selling meh steam keys/gifts just because Valve doesn't like it lol

You'd think we were pirates or something lol seriously why do we even bother with Steam mean there support is complete garbage...I lost access to my Steam account and it took Valve/Steam 32 DAYS to reply to my support ticket to tell me if was my fault my account was hacked even though i had Steam Guard enabled since 20010 LMFAO

I now have a Vac Ban against my account because someone messed with it and i cant get a single word from support as they told me they refuse to help and any further messages sent to them will result in being unread...

Ive also posted on other social media sites about this as its indeed disgusting...Anyways rant over for now...:spycon:


CDkeys and the one with the three hearts in your message are gray market sites. They have been known to sell stolen keys, or keys bought with stolen credit cards and then resold.

Also, games are sold much cheaper in some regions because that is what the market can handle, it is not supposed to be abused to get cheaper games outside of those markets. This new policy protects the prices for those markets by preventing the abuse of reselling the games to markets where the game is more expensive.

Buying from places like Amazon, GMG, Onlive are all legit sellers. it really is not hard to know who are the legit sellers and who are the gray market sellers. Stay away from the grey market sellers, they do not deserve to supported.

Finally someone who knows the difference between the truth and the bs. Exactly. Those other sites are shady and sell bad keys. Thousands of keys sold by them have been locked becuase they were bad keys acquired through shady practices. Those aren't the proper prices of the games just because people like how cheap they are..... the higher prices you see in legit stores ARE the proper prices. Spending money on grey sites is not even supporting the industry....but scammers and criminals.
最後修改者:supertrooper225; 2015 年 3 月 13 日 下午 7:32
mirta000 2015 年 3 月 13 日 下午 7:30 
引用自 eisberg
Stay away from the grey market sellers, they do not deserve to supported.

problem is, grey resellers sometimes are the only ones stocking some of the items. For example hunting down a digital copy of Guild Wars 2 gem card is a real pain, because I don't live anywhere near a game store and I wouldn't want to wait several weeks until the gem card would arrive via mail.
最後修改者:mirta000; 2015 年 3 月 13 日 下午 7:51
mirta000 2015 年 3 月 13 日 下午 7:35 
引用自 eisberg

Buy the GEMs from Guild Wars 2 game instead of supporting shady practices that more then likely screwed an innocent person.

can't. With a Lithuanian card, living in UK means that I trigger all sorts of bells for Anet. And unlike GMG they don't allow me to just call them, contact support and varify my identity. Meaning that I simply can't puchase directly from Anet. Same with Origin actually. Except that Origin plainly told me "go and get an Origin pre-paid card, we can't fix it", while Anet's responce was "well... Tough luck. Get a new card".
mirta000 2015 年 3 月 13 日 下午 7:41 
引用自 eisberg

Then you choice is either be patient and wait for it to be delivered to you, or potentially screw over an innocent person.

or... More places could be told to stock specific cards or use multiple systems of payment. For example any place that uses Amazon Payments work great. Smite gems you can also get absolutely anywhere. Love getting it from Amazon mostly. Also why not stock digital products in codes? Or use steam wallet for more things? Respect Rift for allowing me to pay trough steam. Very handy.
最後修改者:mirta000; 2015 年 3 月 13 日 下午 7:42
supertrooper225 2015 年 3 月 13 日 下午 11:09 
引用自 mirta000
引用自 eisberg

Then you choice is either be patient and wait for it to be delivered to you, or potentially screw over an innocent person.

or... More places could be told to stock specific cards or use multiple systems of payment. For example any place that uses Amazon Payments work great. Smite gems you can also get absolutely anywhere. Love getting it from Amazon mostly. Also why not stock digital products in codes? Or use steam wallet for more things? Respect Rift for allowing me to pay trough steam. Very handy.

Places aren't told to stock anything. They choose to stock something or they don't. It is up to the store. If they want to do it, great. If they don't, oh well. The most you could do is put in a request for a store to stock this or that. But they don't have to do anything.
manlethamlet 2015 年 3 月 14 日 下午 11:11 
引用自 mirta000
regional restrictions - is it even legal?
yes it is
DSi enhanced games and 3DS games are all region locked bro
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