It doens't work with mine, I had to manually add it a week back or so.
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As mentioned, Wayback is the best option, but be aware it won't have archives of all profiles. Best of luck with your plan.
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Some of the users write fake country info in their profiles, like Vatican or some Islands, the only way to check real country - steamgifts base of IPs (or their steam reviews on national languages).
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Do a region locked giveaway, SG detects their country and won't show them the giveaway even if they lie when they join your group.
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Yeah I thought he was referring to a region that at least overlaps with a region steam has but he's not and it's going to be tricky what he's planning.
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Tricky, but worth trying. Worse case I'll have a few more users in my blacklist and send games to users who aren't worthy of them. It's not like both haven't happened before ;-)
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This would require the logs showing what IPs they used to access Steam with. And that info would be super sensitive and I think acquiring it would also break many laws.
Not to mention there are people who regularly access Steam from different IPs. I actually could switch between Hungary and Sweden any time, I access Steam so often from both IP regions. My secondary also has Japan as an offered region.
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Yes, it's difficult to tell for sure. Especially in a world where many people use VPNs. I think I'll just stick to whatever is defined in the user's Steam profile, and will try to check that it's been defined as such for a while (using archive.org). That's the best I can come up with for now...
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I don't check for those, sorry. I am one of those rare people who don't really look into anything related to the winner. I send the game, they mark it, and I hope they will play and enjoy them. Some do, some card farm only, some never touch them. I'm happy if I get one in the first category, then this whole raffle thing was worth something for me.
To be frank: since I deal with low-level bundle stuff mostly (even though there are tier 3 games in there, so considered non-bundle on this site), I don't want to spend that amount of time trying to look everyone up. I am almost 100% positive I have regifters and people who put the keys up to G2A on my winner list. I just don't have the time and energy to find them. Plus I don't use black or white list anyway, so there would be little point in it. ^^'
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You can ask for their driving licenses with a timestamp, a certifcation signed by their local mayor and to send you a couple of cotton swabs with their saliva.
OR you could set up a website, invite them there and log their ip, but it's not a foolproof solution either.
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Is see that there are already good suggestions. (Wayback machine on archive.org or tracking IPs)
Problem with archive.org:
Some users are already using a fake country just for fun.
Problem with IP tracking:
Some users are hidden behind proxies.
Another solution/guess:
It may be much work but you could ask users for a photo that shows a regional newspaper and has their Steam-url ID written on it. It would be important to see the day and city/region from that newspaper.
Every system has its flaws, you need to decide.
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Yeah, but the date would be missing and you could have one from a foreign country (for example as souvenir).
Okay the probability this would occur is very low. ^^
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There are free ones too. At least here are two that cost nothing.
I guess most big cities have free newpapers.
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I want to create a temporary invite-only region-specific group for some giveaways (for a region that isn't restricted as such by Steam). However I don't want users to change their country to be able to join the group. Is it possible to check the history of profiles to verify that the country wasn't changed recently? I believe legit-proof.com used to provide this service in the past, but it doesn't seem to work anymore.
Here's a giveaway to pay my dues :-)
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