AAA games getting region locked in my region (new and pre-orders)

atlest you don't pay the highest prices in steam like my country i barely can buy game :( with the salaries in my country

Not Valve, but publishers of each of those games (Ubi and 2K in this case).

Won't be surprised if Brunei gets the same lock one day.

You and the reddit thread only gave examples of mainstream games from big publishers. What about indie games? Do they get region locked too? If not, then it's the fault of publishers.

Why would they want to region lock? Isn't that bad for business?

Whats that plugin showing you the lowest price? Seems interesting and useful.

I dont really agree with region locking, also I dont agree with the fact that they are setting the same price in € and dollars, juicing money from Europe.
Im from Czech republic, our currency are Crowns, 1 dollar=about 20 Crowns, 1€= about 27 Crowns - SEE THE DIFFERENCE?

If game cost 60 bucks, its 1200 Crowns, but if game costs 60€ its 1620 (81 dollars..'nuff said, Pirate Bay, here I go again). Fuck that, thats why Im pirating games that have same price in € and dollars

Huh. Odd, I bought a retailer game from my shop for South Park.
The price is a hella lot cheaper.
If south park was 60 dollars,
it would be 180 ringgit. I bought it for 120 ringgit though. (40 dollars)
I gotten the australian version though. DAMN CENSORSHIP!

As a fellow Singaporean, I need to clarify that this thread certainly qualifies as FUD, it has been known for a few years that some AAA games are region-locked on release, one unlisted include Hitman Absolution.

As mentioned, some AAA games are indeed region locked, however, discounted prices are the same be it for the US store version or the Asia version. One will only be affected if one trades games actively.

You need to know that some games may contain content deemed sensitive to certain countries, like tropico for example.

There is NO Singapore region lock, but rather an Asia classification.

Stop the FUD, not a single indie game is region locked.

EDIT :

If you really want to complain, at least find some legit reason how Steam is actually screwing people up. For example ask those living in New Zealand about Steam prices, that is the actual screwing of people, not something trivia like this

another noob who dont understand region locking

There is no need to panic: games sold in your region are not region locked - they are just cursed with "AllowCrossRegionTradingAndGifting-No". After you add a game to your library - it's no different from a row/ww one.
And meanwhile Ru/Cis customers have to live with the fact that quite a few of their games are useless outside ru/cis countries - this is a real region lock.

Im not sure on specifics (about asia or each of those games) but those are the common other 'reasons' besides a game being banned for some content:

-Ping, lag, internet connection. Some publishers seens to avoid any possible hickups with its online features. Surely just few of the games listed have any online feature but that could be related.

-TAXES. They way certain countries tax digital goods, wich i guess steam reverts to the publishers as well. Not sure on the logic behind it existing on retail cheaper then a digital version as some listed here, but some funky taxing laws are surely behind the scenes. Here in Brazil for a long time we counted on imported games that weren't supposed to be sold around here, that is, retail stores going out and buying the games directly(that caused then to be more expensive in return).

-Specific 'possible offensive' content. Stuff in some level or such thing. Wich generally ties to next:

-Plans for a future localized version

-Other obscure specific laws, wich generally explain some localized versions as well. Like being obligated to refund.

Theres one more possible culprit that im only guessing, just a theory...

Is that games more and more nowadays collect lots of data that is sent back to the devs, helping then understand player behaviour and such to improve the very game, sequels and even valuable information that serves for other future games.
Not sure if its hard to filter the data between markets or if simply they're not focusing on your market yet.
Could also be about the strain on their servers used to collect this very data.

Can I still play the game if I buy within these countries then move outside it?

atleast it's 60 dollars for you, AAA games are 60€ for me.

Derisory Lee ordered it because Singaporeans reported him for scamming. He's been scamming since 2004.

You just noticed this? It's been like this for months for SEA. I got excited for a while too because I thought it would mean we would get games cheaper. Good thing they are only activation restrictions. You can still play them anywhere (for now).