As it says in the title, apparently games are now region locked. But as we know a lot of games on this site are from Humble Bundle. So now how am i supposed to know in which giveawas i can participate. This information should be in the description so that the people who enter the giveaways know right...!? Please discuss

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Any source please? With info about region locks?

8 years ago
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If you generate key / giftlink and give it away it can be region locked here

8 years ago
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Ahhh not important for me, iam from EU we have all row :D
but its bad in trading, if (maybe) i want to buy bundle game from stranger)
I already have HB support in contact so i send him question about lockZ.

8 years ago*
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Thx for the link. So if a someone wants to give it away he has to do it with gift link or it will get region locked. But the problem still remains. A lot of people don't know this information and there is nothing written about this on the Humble Bundle page. People will have problems receiving gifts

8 years ago
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Do you even read your thread? Even giftlinks are generating region locked keys. There are no way out, we're doomed.

8 years ago
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If you give away the redeemed key it's region locked. But if you gift them as humble links they are not

8 years ago
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No.
Wanna bet for 1 dollar? I have had made a GAs from codemasters bundle and currently have 3 keys locked. I can buy one more bundle and send gift links to winners instead of keys. But if they're locked anyways - you are to gift me a basic codemasters bundle. Deal?

8 years ago
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Hey chill out dude. This is what i read from other people, i never tried it so...
I am sure people wouldn't lie about it, maybe for some bundles it's still doesn't work, idk, i just hope it does

8 years ago
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It was debunked: all keys and links get locked to the region the buyer is from. No workaround.

8 years ago
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Since when?

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Since at least three people (one SEA and on SA) tried this a few days ago with gift links and the recipient got blocked. If you can find the other threads on this one, it was there, somewhere last Friday-ish (2015-11-27).

8 years ago
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Thank you.

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Too bad but don't really understand why. Aren't all the prices the same for all the countries in humble bundle, so why do they region lock them. I guess it's so that they would get more money.

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Wont be region locked if in Europe or US.

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False, participated on a group buy purchased on US, not valid keys for EU.

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Baaah.. Why does Humble Bundle have to complicate things even more >.<'

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ok that messes up my belief system.

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Was it the Capcom one? Because they are the only publisher who lock their games to EU and NA separately.

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Messy, very messy.

8 years ago
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Deep Silver, they started messing things on gamersgate on a weird way (purchased in EU and got non EU redemable keys), then they screwed amazon, then humble, and by now we can guess everywhere.

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don't see any logic here, price is same worldwide :\
unless they are suffering from resellers... that might be true.

8 years ago
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Keys generated from humble bundles have a chance of becoming region ed locked while gift links of said bundles are not.

Humble also prevents peeps from Japan a few others from buying bundles when they involve games from Sega and other Japanese publishers.

8 years ago
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Gift links are not locked, but keys, which you get from them, have a chance to be region locked, if bundle was bought from certain regions.

8 years ago
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I won a game from HB and I was unable to activate it because of a region block. True Story.

8 years ago
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It was Lost Planet 3, gift link.

8 years ago
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you should have asked the ga creator for a row gift, or mark it as not-received. :|

8 years ago
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well, suspended today because of this, but already fixed, 4 hours without SG, almost dead. =P

8 years ago
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4 hours? Sounds like hell...

8 years ago
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Yes there is. AFAIK the GRID games and some others can only be activated in China if bundle was purchased with a payment method issued in China.

There has been another topic about the Codemaster Bundle here before.

8 years ago
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if this means regional prices for different regions... good.

if not then its time to flip tables

8 years ago
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regional prices for different regions

Can't wait for 1$ = 1€ = 1£ on HB bundles, yay (╯ಠ_ಠ)╯︵ ┻━┻

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No, pricing is the same. It only means less ROW people will finally have a chance in trades and don't have to compete with Russian groups buying the bundles in the thousands.

8 years ago
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gift link is region lock too.... :(

8 years ago
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So sad ;(

8 years ago
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Humble support will replace the key if you ask them. I (EU region) gave away RE5 from the Capcom bundle. Winner was South Korean and claimed the gift link, but could not activate the key. We wrote a ticket and now he has the game.
Downside is that it took 2 weeks to get the first answer from them, but then it was done in a couple days.

8 years ago
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region lock for a product with the same price worldwide? :/

8 years ago
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Well... region locked giveaways from now on :(

8 years ago
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With all this stupidness they are going to need to make a us and a europe region only also

8 years ago
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Please. Do it. I really, really, really would love it…

8 years ago
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i have won a game from the capcom bundle and a game from the new humble bundle and they both were region locked and i could not activate them both were gift links one from europe and one from russia.

8 years ago
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Capcom locks NA and EU as different regions. I have zero idea why; this isn't the 1980s and 90s any more to have an NTSC and PAL version of games separately because America had to stay on an inferior format, and they don't use some generic low-violence version for Europe because of Germany either.

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Damn, with my steam store being region lock i was waiting for a decent bundle to do some more giveaway. If even bundle websites have region lock (there shouldn't be though, aren't bundles priced the same worldwide???) where am I supposed to get my games for giveaways T_T. Also i'm in China and pay with french bank card, which lock would i get?!

I already don't enter many giveaways since the lock as i can't really give back good games now and now this :(

8 years ago
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Prices are not the same world wide. E.g. Skyrim Legendary Edition with 75% discount is $12.49 USD instead of $9.99 USD. Humble Bundle has higher price for AU region just like Steamstore.

8 years ago
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Oh for the games from the humble bundle store? I didn't know that. But for the bundles we are the ones naming the price so it should be pretty much the same BTA everywhere no?

8 years ago
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I think so, yes. I really don't see why it has to be region locked then...

8 years ago
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the humble store does have regional pricing, the bundles do not.

8 years ago
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The region should be locking to the payment method. If you pay with a card registered in France with a French address, it should be EU1/RoW.

8 years ago
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Is this applied retroactively? Meaning, are the keys from old bundles also region locked now so if you have old keys saved for giveaways they need to be given within your own region?

8 years ago
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(While I do not know the answer to your question, I know that HB support can replace the key if asked. See above)

8 years ago
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No, these keys are supplied by the publishers. They cannot change how a key works after it was generated. So only a handful of bundles are affected, and only recently.

8 years ago
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So my days of creating GAs are numbered =,(

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8 years ago
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Only from HB and Bundle Stars. Other sites still offer RoW games. Plus I don't think all publishers will use these region-specific key generators.

8 years ago
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I'm sorry, but what other sites? Every store I know except HB and BS is already selling region-locked games =(

8 years ago
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Every? Including IndieGala, GamesRocket, FunStock, GreenMan Gaming, GamersGate, IndieGameStand, Direct2Drive, WinGameStore, GamesRepublic, coinplay.io, DailyIndieGame, Cubic Bundle (which is a Russian bundle site, to boot)…?

8 years ago
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I totally forgot about IndieGala, and I'll check the others, thanks =)
Though I was mostly referring to the sites which sell unbundled games. For example, I have trouble finding ROW Ori and the Blind Forest.

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gmg has been reported to give region locked keys as well.

8 years ago
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So... aside from the capcom bundle which seems to get region speficic from the buyer... if im in the EU, does that mean the rest of stuff (like codemasters) will be ROW? just need to make sure how this all works before i try to make any more GAs or even potentially buy bundles for them too

8 years ago
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Codemasters for EU1/EU2 is RoW. This Deep Silver and Capcom are the only ones I know of that have EU-specific keys.

8 years ago
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RIght, i thought as much but i wanted to make sure, so unless there is some fiasco again like the capcom one, any bundles should be ROW (lets hope it stays that way)

Thanks!

8 years ago
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this thread should be closed. op didn't even look the subject on steamgifts forums. there's no new information here as op wrongly suggested with and exclamation mark on topic subject.

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some of the steam keys from HB are indeed region locked and have been for a long time. Very frustrating sometimes, but afaik steamgifts has regional filters.

8 years ago
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Does this also apply to giveaway links bought like 2 months ago?

8 years ago
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This is BS, in Steam I'm fine cause we get better prices in poor countries, but in HB everybody pays the same, it makes no sense

8 years ago
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Sorry about the necro, but I want to make my first GA and it's from a Humble Bundle. I'm from EU, should I mark the bundle as EU only or what?

Thanks in advance.

8 years ago
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I think it depends on where do you live. If you live in a poorer country, than you gifts are probably restricted, if not everything should be ok

8 years ago
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All right. I'll make my first GA not region restricted, get acquainted with the system and proceed with the following GAs accordingly.

Thanks for the input!

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