Ubisoft retroactivately region-locked Valiant Hearts gift copies

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So... if you have a running giveaway for one, you may need to delete. And if you're trading for one, beware. And if you already traded for one and didn't activate it... whoops!

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Drumoff

AllowCrossRegionTradingAndGifting No
Nothing more.

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BorschtLover

So, it can be activated?

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zeroxxx

Any gift copy can be activated in a given condition set by publisher.

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Groopy

+++

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NastyHero

I've been wondering, does Valve compensate Ubisoft somehow for their obvious fuckup? They'd obviously would have earned more if it wasn't for the bug. Or are they just like "so yeah, we were selling your brand new game for 1/100 of its' value... mistakes happen, move on, kiddos"?

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Laptoprocker

Yeah they've lost $75.000-$200/300.000 on this fuckup, it's around 40% of the projected revenue.

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PsyKo

Depending who fucked up - Ubisoft or Valve. If Valve, then they will have to pay Ubi anyway.

Good thing for them they have those few millions from summer cards :P

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Kiru

Ubisoft fucked up here. Publishers set the prices from the recent mails we seen.

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hovnocuc

Oh, at least you can redeem it in a country called "Republic of".

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arronasu

poor non-russians who stacked copies

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drskull06

the fact those russian guys can easily farm a "game" in dota 2 breaks my heart. 0.20 cents....1 uncommon item.

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nevyn

Yea but TF2 keys have been around for a long time. Plus it was much easier to idle back then.

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gt90

I was just wondering. Can I activate the game if I visit Ukraine for instance ? I'm not going to use VPN for sure but does it violate ToS ?

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MP5

You can purchase and activate games across the globe if you're physically there.

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EddyGaming

I love Ubisoft! Can't wait for The Crew

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Khalaq

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Doesn't affect me, but still, thanks for the heads up, Bobo. )

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BoGG

Karma is a b*tch..

As soon as I noticed this bug I contacted one of my usual RU Steam trader.. he normally takes a small cut on games but this time he looked at the deal and asked me for 5$US .. I was like WTF.. I don't mind paying xtra for the trouble but 5$ for 20 cents spent is pretty greedy in my book. He told me he was only buying copies for himself and if I wanted one that was gonna be the price, then my next comment was sarcastically telling him how nice that was of him and how happy I was that I told him about the deal.

Fastforward to today, I noticed that he blocked me and I checked his inventory .. he's got 10 copies of the game sitting there with their red icon over. I normally would never gloat over someone else's misfortune but this time it brought a big smile to my face.. Greedy bastid.

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madjoki

Pretty sure he will be able to sell someone in these areas?

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Ariasla

how many gamers in any of them other than russia do you know? I know zero.

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