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Activating Region-Restricted Keys For Others?

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NemoKhan

I was doing a bit of trading on steamgifts' sister site, traded a key to someone from the EU region and it turns out it's region-restricted to North America. If I log into his steam account for him (I'm in the US) and activate it, will that work? He's a bit concerned that Steam might detect this and penalize him for it.

Anyone had a similar situation, or have advice? Or know where I can trade a region-restricted Dead Island: Riptide key for a ROW one?
Thanks!

1 decade ago*

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thejadefalcon

Even if it does activate, there's no guarantee he'll actually be able to install or play it in his region. That said, Steam is a bit off the wall with that sort of thing. Sometimes they'll penalise, sometimes they'll just go "lol, whatevs, brah."

Also, just saying, but if I was him, I'd be more concerned about my account being stolen than in being detected by Steam.

1 decade ago
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NemoKhan

Hm, I'd rather not get him into any situations where he'd get into trouble. I'm not interested in stealing his account because that's not something I do, but I'd like to have the trade go smoothly.

1 decade ago
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ivanlonel

"Even if it does activate, there's no guarantee he'll actually be able to install or play it in his region."
Well actually, there is. Once activated, region restricted keys are no longer a trouble.

All the rest you said is true. xD

1 decade ago
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NemoKhan

Yeah that's what I figured as well, but I don't want him to be penalized for it. Anyone have any experience where they've done what I'm suggesting and either gotten in trouble, or gotten away with it?

1 decade ago
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thejadefalcon

Wrong.

1 decade ago
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0x442E472E

A friend of mine bought a cheap russian Skyrim which could only be activated and started with a russian ip. That's an easy way to lose a Steam account...

1 decade ago
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NemoKhan

More info: me and a person I traded with used a middleman to activate a UK-only FC3: BD key on my uPlay account with no trouble, so I'm hoping this can go as smoothly, although obviously uPlay and Steam probably operate differently.

1 decade ago
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MaximumBunny

You have games that are activatable only in a certain region (meaning it's unlocked once it's activated) and others than require a constant connection in that region. For your case, you should go with trading it and not try to do circumvention that goes against the Steam TOS.

1 decade ago
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NemoKhan

Good advice, alright I will do my best to exchange this key then. Thanks for the advice guys!

1 decade ago
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Closed 1 decade ago by NemoKhan.