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76561198100224127 Aug 9, 2013 @ 4:57pm
Using VPN (proxy) to BUY region-free games from foreign countries
Hi!
I'm just wondering if i would get banned if just BOUGHT region-free gifts from different countries using proxy server and gave them to my friends. Does Valve ban for this?
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Dagnabbit Aug 9, 2013 @ 5:11pm 
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Kieran Lee Aug 9, 2013 @ 5:23pm 
You can buy off of Russian Traders on websites that will give you for a little above what they're getting it for. They sell in the currency of keys from dota or tf2. As far as im aware of you dont get banned from that.
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76561198100224127 Aug 9, 2013 @ 5:40pm 
Originally posted by DylanSWFC:
You can buy off of Russian Traders on websites that will give you for a little above what they're getting it for. They sell in the currency of keys from dota or tf2. As far as im aware of you dont get banned from that.

That's exactly what I'm talkng about, but in this case I could act as that "Russian" trader. If I went abroad, created an account there and bought the game, that would be completely legal, but if I do the same from my home using proxy - that's a fraud...
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Jawaka Aug 9, 2013 @ 7:00pm 
If a person has to ask if something is allowed it usually isn't.
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Erosinnin Aug 9, 2013 @ 7:02pm 
Originally posted by Jawaka:
If a person has to ask if something is allowed it usually isn't.
thats why i never ask :)
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Shin Ramyun Aug 9, 2013 @ 7:28pm 
ha ha ha good one.

Originally posted by Erosinnin:
Originally posted by Jawaka:
If a person has to ask if something is allowed it usually isn't.
thats why i never ask :)
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76561198100224127 Aug 10, 2013 @ 1:41am 

Originally posted by Jawaka:
If a person has to ask if something is allowed it usually isn't.
I'm not asking if it's allowed. I'm asking if such accounts get banned ;D
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Wolfpig Aug 10, 2013 @ 2:04am 
Originally posted by Dota2Fan:
I'm not asking if it's allowed. I'm asking if such accounts get banned ;D

They could get banned. I heard of a few people who got lucky and only had to agree that they don't do it anymore, or the account(s) get locked.

If you only do that 1-2 times i doubt that they will do anything....if you plan on doing that regularly with a lot of purchases....good luck.
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