So if I understand right, if a russian trader buys a gift from the store, the trader will be unable to trade that gift with someone who is not from the RU region.
What if the receiving party used a VPN to make it look like he's from the RU region, will the trader be able to gift the game to that person? The gift would be added to the inventory immediately after the trade still using the VPN from the browse.
Do you think more people will start using VPN software? Is it worth the risk?
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Does it work? Yes. Worth the risk? Fuck no.
It's something the SSA explicitly forbids, and you could lose your account for it. Not just restricted, but lose entirely.
It's trivial to detect. I don't think they do this yet, but Steam could automate VPN detection.
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Valve are very clear on their policy regarding VPN usage. Personally I wouldn't jeopardise my account just for the sake of a few dollars. It's digital Russian roulette...
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Pretty old news. This has been happening for about 2 months now.
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I'm sure publishers are tired of losing money in their opinion on Russians, Brazilians, etc...trading their games for half price. I'm kind of surprised Valve allowed to to begin with. I can buy COD AW on steam for 60 or get it from someone from another country for 11 keys. lol That's an easy choice.
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That's an easy choice.
Could i pay 11 keys for cod aw ? maybe (probably not cause is a cod game)
Could i pay 60€ for cod aw ? lel nope.
I applied the same concept to a lot of games i have in my library, cause to be honest there are a lot of games that are totally not worth the full price.
e.g. i've just finished tomb raider, not bad, i would buy it for 3-4keys without thinking, but i'm pretty sure that if it was region-locked I wouldn't have taken it.
another example: Goat simulator is in my "next-thing-to-buy" but i'll never pay more for 4€ for that game, cause i think i'll try it, i'll play for 3-5h and then i'll quit.
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I am pretty sure that at least 80% of the customers on Steam don`t have a clue about trading games for TF2 keys.
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They will loose more money then anything,as a lot of people can not afford to buy a lot of games,and trading this way allows them to play more.
I know some people will have an opinion of if you can not afford to buy full price you should not be gaming,the fact is it will only make those buy less and only purchase more at Summer sales and other big sales.
I could care less either way if they restrict all games ot each Region and i am surprised it has not been done by now,but that just means that i will spend less over all so everyone will make less over all.
Is it better to make some money on several games,or make one decent sum on one game??
I buy very few games at full price as i see most of them not worth the asking price,but that does not mean i do not buy non at full price,just most i do not.
I can always fall back to my console as i get rent,borrow to play games that i may pass on the P.C. because price is too high. Call Of Duty games are the worse for pricing imo as even Black Ops is still 49.99 after all these years for making millions by now they should at least be 30
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I think Russian, Brazilian, Indonesian traders will teach people how use VPN to activate games
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Most of the games with the new acrossregiontrading lock games don't have the "onlyallowrunin" locks. So no VPN needed for playing
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I don't know which AppID number is a start of region locks, it's 3xxxxx. So Joe Dever and Old City would need to request region lock, as they were added to Steam before default locking started (they have 2xxxxx AppIDs).
No idea about rest, through - they might be still pre-default adds, or devs do unlock games...
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Few years back there was no trading and guess what, everything was OK.
People just like to exploit everything and are greedy motherfuckers. It is really so hard to wait few months until sale if I am not willing to spend full price? No, it is not, unless you are...
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1/10? Lol.
Steam trading was introduced in the end of 2011. Yes, there was less people than now, but it was circa 4milions (online) vs 7 milions now.
And steam has more people mainly because of F2P market and indie bundles, not because of trading.
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100 million users 3 months ago. 25 million of which were created since January 2014. You can imagine how much users did it gain since winter sale 2011, which attracted people to Steam like moths to a flame (and guess by what - by adding trading!).
EDIT: Ok, I've overblown it with 10%, here's a NeoGAF post citing 35 million account. So yeah, Steam has grown only 3 times in the past 3 years :P
Back to original matter - if "everything was ok" without trading, that means you're not into trading. How does this affect you? Looks like - in no way. Then what are you grumbling about?
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Yes, I was buying cheaper games too, but if there will be no trading, I have no problem to buy games like before, for my own currency.
Dont be greedy, look at console players. They have no sales, if they could buy some games for 5€, they would be the happiest people on the planet.
At least you will think before you buy something rather than buy everything and never play it.
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you dumbass do you realize, some people live in fucking poor countries, but games prices are the same like in Norway or Germany, its why they buying them cheaper, better then pirating huh?
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Or at least according to this reddit post. The claim is that devs/publishers need to contact Valve in order to remove the lock from their game, since there's no option to do it themselves. If this is true, we'll probably see less and less non locked games.
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