So a guy in a community shared some damn important info (at least for me). He bought a game in south america and was region blocked (has it should be by the new rules) but he also bought a 4 pack of Speedrunners and when he activated it, the 3 copies that are putted in the inventory were ROW! They have the 30 days restrigntion trading but that isnt very important.

Here are the prooves:

A game bought directly with region block

The 3 copies left of the four pack

I am wondering if this applies to all 4-packs.

I dont know if you guys knew about it, because i didnt.

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How about 2-pack? aren't region locked too?

9 years ago
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2, 3 or 4 packs aren't(The unpacked games)

9 years ago
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Would be interesting to find it out.

9 years ago
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I posted this on the other thread, but no one really proved, so now it's proved :

It doesn't applies to 4-packs of games that were already region before, like Payday 2 RU, but it should work for Payday 2 from Brazil.

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I am sorry to missed that, any other info related?

9 years ago
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If you find more, but there are already traders trading these unpacked games. My friend got Space Engineers this way.

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Would be nice to find those type of traders.

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what about 4pack gifts? i mean 4pack as a gift, i think they're locked.

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4-packs themselves are region-locked.

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Oh boy, now we can can go back to stealing income from the people who make the games we want.

9 years ago
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Coz they need 100 ferraris in their garage ain't that right?

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Don't forget the 50 mansions on prime land on a first world country, cause they don't forget those.

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They actually made something, so they're far more entitled to them instead of people who scalp copies of their games.

9 years ago
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Hoo guuurrrl, especially folk in poor countries with prices like in rich countries. THIEVES, I say!

9 years ago
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If you can't easily afford premium forms of entertainment that's not Valve's fault or the dev's fault. It certainly doesn't give you the right to use region exploits.

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You are from the USA. I'm from Argentina. I earn 350 dollars a month, yet my Steam Store page has the same prices as yours... Even worse, I can't gift gamest to people outside South America!
Just saying.

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Now that the people who make games no longer have to worry about getting ripped off I'd imagine that your country will either get lower prices or unlocked trading once Valve works everything out.

9 years ago
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Wonder if this is done on purpose or by accident. Sort of circumvents the entire region lock system.

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Mostly by accident I think and it won't take long for them to fix it.

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Wait..on the second look this makes Sense. It actually allows 4 packs to be used for the thing they meant to be. Open the pack and gift the others copies to your friends in other countries.

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I don't think it was an accident. Valve knows this is going on; however, they don't care about the 4-packs because 4-packs can only be purchased by people who don't already own the game.

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Nope, ppl can purchase tradable packs there is an exploit/bug as I know, but someone from the restricted region needs to activate it anyways to get the non region locked unpacked copies.

9 years ago
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It might be the same bug as this

So be careful!

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My friend traded for Space Engineers from a Russian 4-Pack and activated the game, so it's not this bug.

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A 4-pack that was bought AFTER the new region lock rule? If so, then it's cool. But maybe they will fix it, who knows.

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Maybe it's not a bug, and the packs just do their supposed work, activated today one of the 3 copies of the Space Engineers 4-Pack that my cousin bought in Russia, they're totally region free.

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Just bought castle crasher 4 packs from SEA and the spare 3 packs are ROW, confirm.

It's happen because when u brought 4 packs, it's automatically purchase for yourself, so there is no warning message show on the top of the checkout step, and all extra copies don't have red dead tag at all, cheers. :)

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I hope it stays like this, at least you can share the extra copies with friend from everywhere, not just your region.
Since this is limited to one person from the restricted region to buy the 4-pack and not all games have 4-packs this is hardly something that would worry a developer or Valve. I mean, the extra copies can be shared the way they intended to be first place.

9 years ago
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are is this true? more news please

9 years ago
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thx :)

9 years ago
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Confirmed.
I have just bought postal 2 4 pack. Unpack one copy for my self - other 3 gifts are region free. Few days ago my friend have bought project zomboid 4 pack - i have unpack it for me and have returned him 3 copies without lock. All good for now

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Gauntlet is the same bought a copy from someone, he gave the game to me first, it said region locked but it worked fine.

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