I take a browse at eg. Humble to 1)check if it says anything about restrictions in the game info, 2)take notice for popup when obtaining game key/giftlink, and lastly 3)put "to the best of my knowledge there are no region restrictions etc" in giveaway infobox - and hope that gamers who enter giveaway are decent and don't get totally crazy should something not work out. For one of these days however..... It is a nice feature for going all restrict-o-rama to avoid any and all hassle. To avoid hassle rather than out of spite.
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So, SG is now encouraging discrimination and bigotry by allowing you to lock certain countries out because you don't like their inhabitants. What's next, a "no negros allowed" option? I think I've made my last giveaway on this site. At least until/unless this change is reversed.
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Yes, you have always been given the possibility to give away to some group of people.
As long as you don't ostensibly discriminate people.
PS : you can now select all country you like and... unselect some others...
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Ideally, you are using this feature because your gift or key is region restricted. However, you can use these restrictions as you see fit.
This is an explicit permission from the site owner to discriminate against people that everyone here is applauding. I refuse to support a site that allows this.
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Then every closed groups are a kind of discrimination (they are), nothing new here o_o
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Most closed groups are based on criteria that people can actually control and that tells you something about them: I can decide how many GAs I want to make, whether to play my wins within a month, etc... And it does certainly say something about me if I haven't activated won gifts, etc... Which are the usual requirements.
Again, if there was a group "Join only if you are of my religion" or "No gays allowed" or any other such things that exclude people based on arbitrary factors out of their control and that don't define them as a good or bad person or SGer, I think most people would condemn such a group. If the site creator then endorsed this group and implemented features to allow them to enforce their bigoted views, I think most people would be up in arms too.
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I'm in Hungary, EU and if I would really hate some countries, I could still give it to others. Like lock to EU, or US. Nothing prevented anyone to lock previously, and many polish or CIS users clearly abused this by region locking their bundled ROW games to their own regions. If you feel like the rules promoting bigotry and discrimination, it was already available and done before, and you were likely (Dunno, your name suggest Germany or Austria) on the receiving end of it. Why is it worse now that it's not one-sided?
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It's not encouragement - it's just a sad fact - wide region locks had to be implementewd because of new Steam gifting policy and ever more and more region locked keys popping up even in major bundles. Ideally people would only use region locks for said GAs, but realistically it is impossible to enforce such rule - toy would have to check each and every GA to tellw hether it is really region locked or not - and even so, you cannot prove that someone has a row key - they can say they are not giving row key from the current bundle but are going to buy region locked gift on Steam for much more just to make region locked GA. And again - you cannot really prove breaking of rule saying "only use region restrictions for actually locked keys/gifts". So in conclusion - locks had to be implemented, but idealistic usage of it cannot be enforced, so only possible solution is to either allow non-ideal use of locks or create a rule which will be commonly broken over and over again without any punishment - which is a worse scenario, cause it may SG look like a place where it's ok to break rules.
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just move to full whitelist and add people that don't abuse region filters.
or blacklist people that do it. but i guess we will need bigger blacklists ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Are you referring to the sentence "you can use these restrictions as you see fit"? I believe that cg wrote it not because he wants to encourage the type of abuse you think of, but because he knows there's no realistic way to police it. By allowing this, he is basically telling people "don't try to investigate why people put specific region restrictions and create related tickets, because we're not going to spend efforts looking into it". I think it's a reasonable and pragmatic thing to say.
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That was probably a very necessary update upgrade. Good job !
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This was necessary - and it is nicely implemented, good job!
As usual, this would not bring any harm, only convenient tool for fine people, to make things easier.
But we as representatives of today's humanity are not fine, are we?
Strangers to each other, every single one being more wise, fair and just than the next in line. Human mass is pushed wrong directions too easily, feeling no responsibility especially when it is encouraged/expected from outside; own voices so quiet. Some apparently have a lot of hate towards not only individuals, but whole countries/continents, religions etc. This is not their own hate.
For someone who is considering excluding certain countries: Did you think properly about what good this would bring to you? Creating some GAs which are not available to someone by your will is seemingly small thing with little consequences. For small people. Would this create a happy feeling? It has common root with much more serious matters. What about not helping someone at critical moment in trouble, who you don't like? Ultimately, do you feel satisfied and happy harming some unknown person whom you have hastily labeled with anything?
For serious matters most people would say 'No, I am not capable of doing so', but this is only because of fear of punishments either from government, gods or fear of being condemned by beloved ones. So rarely open-mindedness and consistency comes sincerely from inside.
From extra angles: For users-participants it may be important just to see that nice GAs available to them exist, even if competition is tough - fact is that everybody in it has own chances; this could simply improve mood and create festive atmosphere <3
And for the site itself - more giveaways average user see - more attractive site is. Thus, restricting unnecessarily, user explicitly harms SG while pursuing own holy "reasons". By the way, good that list of restrictions is visible to anyone manually checking and will be stored in GA list :)
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I agree with this 100% and it is really nice to see that there are still people on this site who do not judge others based on arbitrary things they have no control over like nationality.
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but those would tell you they have control and it's all their fault <3
it's easy, just move to another country!
you're poor? easy, just be rich!
same mentality as "all muslims are terrorist". sad to see it applied on sg by some users.
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Well said, Lilith, and definitely one of the better comments I've seen on the forums in my time here.
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For most, excluding countries would be a lot more pragmatic question rather than this philosophical:
"If I exclude <these countries>, is my chance to get my giveaway marked as received increase substantially without any worry to reroll for some infraction, or to chase down the winner to finally activate the key, or send a request feedback ticket because he sold the key and tried to tell me it was a dupe?"
To which the answer is: Yes.
It may lead to interesting philosophical and ethical debates about human nature, SteamGifts's userbase and the sociological aspects of the community, but the cold hard answer will be "yes, excluding some countries will substantially decrease the chance to run into a headache with your winners".
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And if you were to abort all black babies, your crime rate would go down :)
In other words "pragmatism" does not justify bigotry.
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While it's true, that's a superhard slippery slope, comparing not giving chance to win digital games to planned genocide.
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At the same time, reducing actual crime rate, including murders and rapes is also infinitely more important than not having to open one more ticket on SG. It's not so much a slippery slope as the exact same argument taken to a wider scale.
And further, I am arguing that if the distinction was race and not nationality that people wouldn't stand for it, no matter the scale. Imagine a real life lottery held in a private building where people could enter and draw lots to win, but there were guards at the doors that wouldn't let you enter if you were not white. What would you think of the organizers of this event? What would you think of the common excuses? "Well, black people often give each other gifts and don't include us! It's only fair!" or "Well, they're the ones most likely to take their win and go sell it to buy drugs! It's what statistics show! I just don't want my gifts going towards drug money!"
All that's despicable, isn't it? Regardless of if it's true or not, you should not harm an entire community based on the actions of only parts of that community. Especially when belonging to that community is not a choice one makes but something they are born with.
I will also be replying to your other comment here so
When you lock RU+CIS out of a giveaway, you are not just locking the people who made GAs exclusively for that region, or the people from that region that caused you trouble with tickets before. You are locking the thousands of nice, innocent users that are now feeling discriminated against and unjustly judged for things they did not do. If I were one such user, the implied accusation of being a troublemaker would bother me far, far more than the one tinier chance to not win a giveaway. I mean, no one is entitled to any GAs. And honestly I'm not sure that region-locking your stuff really majorly reduces someone's chances to win stuff anyway, they can always spend their points elsewhere. But the feeling of being hated and mistrusted for something you have no control over - that is real life emotional damage that is more important than any other petty issues on this site. And that is something that does NOT therefore compare to people making RU+CIS locked GAs. While shitty, those don't really show explicit mistrust of anyone outside those regions, just blind/dumb nationalism. And finally, I guess everyone from a hated country eventually learns to ignore the occasional online troll that hates them for their origin - I know I have. But having the admin of a site explicitly endorse that... That is not something I can stand for any longer.
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You are right and thanks for fine examples.
But don't blame SG for this. This is updated only behind changes in Steam policy and principle was abused already before - with regional locks. People probably will not notice much changing now too, even if certain people will abuse exclusion. I just hope they will be aware of deeper side of what they are doing. And this is not the only way of doubtful exclusion anyway.
Don't give up! :3
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Yeah, I realize people abused this before too, but that was precisely what it was - abuse. The system was designed to work around region-locked gifts, not to allow you to exclude anyone based on nationality. Now that practice can no longer be called abuse though, it is explicitly endorsed by the site owner. My problem is not so much with allowing people to select/deselect individual countries, which can be explained as simply designed to work around steam's new weird gifting rules(although most people that are claiming that right now have made no secret of wanting to exclude RU+CIS people long before steam made any gifting changes - they are liars first and bigots second), but with the permission given to use the new system to exclude anyone you don't like. This isn't a coincidence either, or a "we can't prevent you from doing it so whatever". People have explicitly asked for the option to block RU+CIS for a long time and it seems cg agrees with them.
And I guess I should specify that my problem isn't with the community at large, that would be quite hypocritical of me I think. There are many awesome and nice SGers, open minded and non judgemental people. But SG is not a public good, it's private property and as of recently is making its owner money. So I guess see this as sort of like boycotting Chick-fil-a. I don't think everyone who works or dines there is awful, but when you disagree so strongly with the stated intent of the owner it is hard to support it in good conscience.
Or maybe I'm just an over-emotional douche. I mean, I have to say I really respect your more level-headed way of reasoning. You are certainly more likely than me to convince people of your viewpoint. But as someone that's really governed by their emotions I think it is actually the more logical choice for me to follow them. I simply cannot be happy going against what I believe in
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Nope, you are right, this will likely be used by quite a few to block the CIS region exclusively for no other reason than to block it. Then again, this issue is a coin with two sides. After all, you never went into the topic of why even you defaulted to the assumption that this rule will be used against the RU/CIS users.
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At least DontBeSilly and Sooth have explicitly indicated more than once that they would want to exclude the CIS region. I thought you had done so too, but perhaps I am mis-remembering?
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If I really wanted to do that, I would have switched to Poland-only or SEA-only several thousand giveaways ago.
No. I have my reservations against my Russian winners based on hundreds of problematic giveaways, since the majority (over half) of the rule-breaking users I encountered were Russian. But I could tell a lot of not nice things about many, many countries' and regions' worth of users here, with maybe SEA as the only glaring exception. I can also confirm that it is not a two-way rule: just because the majority of the rule-breakers are Russian, only a minority of the Russians are rule-breakers. (Another country seems to be leading the ratio race there, and with a hefty margin.)
Still, I never refused to deliver just because someone had a .ru email address. Not even when it was obvious that they were using a bot. If the winner is eligible, they get their game.
I am not saying I am not using tricks to exclude a certain demographic. It is an SGTools rule build around a certain stereotype, and considering the entry lists of the otherwise level 0 region-free giveaways it protects, I have to say that the stereotype—whether people like to accept this or not—is true. (As a somewhat ironic side note, the same rule also excludes most of my fellow countrymen. :))
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I'm curious about that SGTools rule. Can you share it? No need to name the demographic you're referring to ;-)
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trade_ban == false
and community_ban == false
and pass_activated_rule == true
and pass_multiple_rule == true
and
(
(level <= 2.55
and num_won <= (5 + level)
and raw_won <= (40 + level * 10)
and 730 not in owned_games
and 578080 not in owned_games)
or
(level > 2.55
and ([RULE_1] or [RULE_2]))
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Is that middle part based on profiling for common denominators between winners you've had trouble with?
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Yes. Well, Steam users I generally see following a certain behaviour pattern, translating also back to SteamGifts.
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You're seeing this way darker than the situation is. Giving a choice is not endorsing. Also I don't know if you noticed it, like I said in my other comment, that people were already abusing the region system to lock out not a country, but everyone but their region from their giveaway.
Region locks can not be checked before activation, so what could CG do against that "endorsed" option of do whatever they want? Why set up a rule that's physically impossible to enforce?
And for a real one: it's not CG's fault. It's not CG's fault that Konrad was a jerk and got banned, or that CjComplex got promoted into the admins. People made their decision how to act, on the site that gave a (somewhat limited) options for various behaviours. Don't marginalize that it's not CG who makes racist of hateful comments, or hates or nations, but individual users. Hate them Giving a choice is not, and never was a mistake. Don't use the system in a way that you feel abusement,
I'm personally happy that there are options to give games to regions / countries where they carry additional meaning, or that I can finally give away safely my germany only key, or that it can be used in so many ways. Not everyone likes a system that's so centralized that leaves you close to no choice and personal options.
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Okay, so are you saying CG doesn't actually want people to lock certain countries out of their GAs, but only said what he did because he physically can't stop it, or that people should actually have the option to lock those countries out if they want to, because options are never bad?
Because I disagree with both.
Firstly, cg could simply have not said anything about this. Abuse would have continued as it already exists(By the way, about the many people locking to NA to prevent RU+CIS entering, have you ever stopped to consider why only NA? Why not lock to south america? Or south east asia? Or Turkey for that matter? There's definitely no racism involved there in seeing NA as the pure master race. It's just to protect against rule breakers. Because statistics), but it would be just that: abuse. Yes, you can't stop people from doing wrong things, but that doesn't mean you should tell them that doing them is okay. Secondly, it probably actually wouldn't have been too hard to find those users who want to lock certain countries out(heck, they're always out there announcing themselves anyway). It could have been like the many other abuses of the rules where you can't automatically detect it but you'll very much hand out suspensions when you catch someone red handed.
Secondly, more options is not always good. I mean, we're basically going into that whole, "should nazis be allowed to hold public rallies" and "should bakerys be able to refuse to bake cakes for gay couples" which are way bigger topics than SG and really not fit to be argued here so if that's what you're saying, maybe we should just agree to disagree. I just do not think the freedom to be bigoted is one I want to defend.
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Lol, so region locking to NA is to giving to master race, while you still don't address how russian and polish giving only to themselves is a problematic situation. Then bring up the nazis and the bakery thingy... how biased you are in this? Never a word against the actual and already working rule abusers, but the very first day when the options expand to anywhere to the west you're screaming abuse and blame CG for allowing it. And yes please, make another nazi-question out of deciding who you want to give a game for. Get out of your ass. People are already gifing to friends in groups, boosting CV, gifing to their country's groups or just having whitelist/invite only giveaway to their friends. They all abuse the system, that's why not a problem? If the SG system is so flawed, why you only react to that when it becomes cross-country or "race" problem? Stop pretending that you give a toss about SG because all the problems you listed were already here, just now you can ride the usual bandwagon of hate. Just look at yourself. From "I can choose who I want to give for with more options" it just took 3 comments of yours to get to nazi rallies and the gay couple's cake. Is that so hard to ses every user of the site as a fucking person, instead only caring about them when it comes for nation, colour or sexual preference? You didn't care about groups. You don't care about CV-based selection. You don't care about made-up region only giveaways or elitist groups. Go back to your cave with your disingenuous preaching and think how much do you NOT care about SG.
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Your whataboutism fails because none of the other things you're mentioning are specified as okay by the creator. I never said that I am and am actually not okay with any of those, but I guess you're losing the argument so hard you need to resort to name-calling and to putting words in my mouth that I didn't say, instead of bowing out gracefully like a grown up.
What you're basically saying is that because rule-breaking already happens, there shouldn't be rules against bad practices. What?
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Nice arguements - you know, something not being in the rules as forbidden, they are allowed. It's not namecalling or putting words in your mouth that you didn't give a damn beforehand. And no, I didn't say that bad habits should be ignored, but that making a drama out of it only a specific point suggest having an agenda :) Check your part about putting words in other's mouth.
Point is, the only point when you start caring about abusive options not being forbidden when it becomes national/racial question - you emphasize these differences a little more than healthly. Like they matter more than they should.
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I'm honestly not even sure what point you're trying to make anymore. I oppose something being allowed in the rules, and you've been coming at me for dozens of comments with examples of people doing something that is against the rules, and saying that I shouldn't "make a drama" about this rule change because I did not care about those? Of course I won't blame CG for those. As you yourself said, in such cases you should blame the abusers and rule breakers. The people who are not using the system the way it is intended to be used. I have had nothing but disdain for those people the entire time.
I mean let's go through your list
You didn't care about groups.
The only groups I am in are Playing Appreciated and Unlucky-7. Yeah, such discrimination: Giving games only to those who want to play them or those that haven't won much before.
You don't care about CV-based selection.
Must explain why 90% of my GAs are level 0 even though everyone else keeps yapping on about how easy it is to get to level 1.
You don't care about made-up region only giveaways or elitist groups.
I specifically said how those were wrong, but I cannot blame CG for it because they were abuses and not how the site is intended to be used and I thought that people doing it would get banned if you reported them, which I actually did.
Everything you are mentioning is either stuff I already oppose, or stuff that's already not allowed("People make groups of friends to raise CV" - and um, you do know that when those people were caught they were banned for months, right? And now to turn this around, if they hadn't and CG had said "You are free to use group GAs as you see fit including to raise your cv artificially", would you have "made a drama" about it?)
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Er, people lock to NA because Capcom, Square, Deep Silver, plus I think also Codemasters have USA+Canada only lockdowns. I assume even more. And the PC market is still a lot more open for this than the console one, where sometimes they are almost isolated from the rest of the world, even in this age where NTSC or PAL does not matter any more.
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Sometimes, and other times it's this
Of course, as I just indicated, some users seem to have taken to posting NA-giveaways to avoid CIS-locks, so there's that consideration (pity it is that Europe, etc are excluded).
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Yes, I know. Sadly, this is a double-sided coin. If you dig into the archive, you can see that the site is actually hosting an entire sub-economy of Russia-specific gifting networks, including a few small groups specialised in CV-boosting. (Legitimately, they are not stupid enough to rake in falsely marked games.) A nice game you can play with stats is naming any AAA game in the past two years with a decent marketing budget, and search for its giveaways. I can wager you that at least 3 of the 5 earliest giveaways for it will be CIS-locked, and the two others will be either something tied to level 8+ or with a group icon and 10 entries max.
Unless it is some incredibly weeb game, then substitute CIS-locked to Touhou Giveaways specific.
I am not saying that the answer is to start another fucking Cold War on SG and do the same with NA. It is stupid thing to do but not like I can just tell and convince everyone to stop doing it. At this point the community is so hard-headed that it can go directly against the steering of the site owner as well, even though SG is his damn private property.
I am just saying that if you blame one group for doing something, do not leave out the small fact that they are not the only ones doing it and at least condemn each side equally.
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I am pragmatic myself.
But what you are speaking is strongly correlated to philosophical side of this, because handling persons correspondingly to stereotypes about whole countries (even based on statistics of own experience) is what I am speaking about. Yes I have problems with winners from Russia and some Asian countries all the time - I bet some of them don't even bother to read english descriptions. They enter GAs not available for their regions and I have to reroll (but hey, they agree to reroll after speaking to them, this just wastes some time and requires patience, I also learned not to send anything before person doesn't confirm their country if key is restricted). I had an episode with my key becoming a dupe too, however I bet you had ugly occasions few orders more often.
Remembering one of yours comments in the past: yes, there is certainly a problem with money involved which attracts way too many users who think that they are the most clever ones and can abuse 'silly people', probably even feeling themselves righteous. Way more than honest users. Third country users are statistically prone to dishonest behavior more, because of their life surroundings. We have an exterior choice of not labeling unknown persons from there, or "throwing" all of them away preemptively, never bothering to know if they were fine, considering them not as persons but as instances of some 'class' we ourselves defined.
But really these choices have the most effect not on these people we think ill about, but on what we reinforce in ourselves and on what we propagate around ourselves to close ones; these actual choices mold our life - the facts from which we create our stories. Classifying people too much makes us unresponsive to differences in the future and contributes to destroying our own individualities. More stereotypes we use - more we give up reasoning and become simple and faceless in new regards, denying own voice, a choice. Unfortunately, some people don't mind doing this anyway.
I also tried a lot of ways of filtering on SG - not by countries but by other criteria. Elaborate SGT filters, ratios, high levels, etc - this also statistically improves chances to get responsible winner but any filter always creates such an effect that someone terrible still gets access and eventually wins, but someone fine (probably a lot) doesn't even have a chance! This ruins sense in filtering drastically. It is not right and actually painful to handle people statistically (when it is not needed).
I still avoid lowest levels because it is not hard to level up that much and I don't think that I can morally and financially overcome the threshold of giving so much more to obvious alts/collectors who share nothing. Even this "filter" is saddening a bit, but every gifter considers own possibilities and circumstances :)
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Then at least you see where the problem lies. Many people, in general, may see similar problems, but their concerns are short-term. Sometimes because stupidity, sometimes because it is all they can do. They will see an opportunity here to decrease the number of problematic winners and take it.
On the other hand: the sheer amount of keys getting stupider and stupider region locks, completed with Steam's policy on gifting mandates this change, a change I have been campaigning for in the past many months. The side effect will be what you described, yes. But…
SteamGifts have always been one of the most elitist community on the internet.
And the this change does solve the core problem, the problem being people not being able to gift Steam gifts on a site called goddamn SteamGifts.
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Thanks for an educational update.
These are just some of the quite interesting places I have found so say far and I am only looking at the HB Europe list.
Åland
Guadeloupe, French Island in Caribbean
Gibraltar, not just a strait, but a self-governing UK territory
Guernsey, because why not when you're all that with your total area of 65 km^2 (25 sq mi)
Jersey, another Crown dependency
Liechtenstein, I knew about this one, but wouldn't have been able to locate it on a map till today
Martinique, heard the name before, never knew where it was
Mayotte, expected this to be another French Caribbean Island, but I was wrong
Montserrat, another Caribbean Island, this one is owned by UK
Réunion, the French sure loves Islands
Alright, I made it to R, that is enough learning for today.
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Probably because people all too often equate disagreement with drama.
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That a jab at me? :P
No? Just an observation. I can be much more direct - you know that.
You see it as bickering, I see it as people expressing their views. Potato, eggplant.
edit: just realized you won't get the "potato, eggplant" thing. You say poe-tay-toe, I say poe-tah-toe - but since it doesn't work so well in text, I say potato, eggplant.
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Emotional and logical responses should both be acceptable. I don't see why they should be exclusive.
I see people disagreeing, but don't see any "drama", unless I just have a high threshold.
It's early yet, though. We'll see how long my threshold lasts.
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the only ones creating drama are the authoritarian ones that love to agree with everything cg does, not because it's good for sg or the community, but because they always butt kiss the one in power.
that or because they have to keep their opposing opinions with people they hate. just take a look at this thread, at least 3 users replied just to stir up drama based on previous comments.
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i wasn't talking about you with my reply, just in case it looked like that =3
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You'll also notice when creating a giveaway, you can now search your Steam groups. Hopefully this will be beneficial to users that have a large number of groups associated with their account.
Thank you!
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Could you please add two letter country codes to the list? It would make searching much easier... :)
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Country codes are now displayed, and they can be searched as well.
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So we just need to filter button at left side like "region".
We can see these giveaways from this link ( https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaways/search?region_restricted=true ) but extra filter button would be cool.
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System is a mess if you want to exclude one specific region and you are not entirely sure which countries belongs to that region.
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Luckily HB and other sites that sell region locked games usually specify the exact countries and not a generic region, so this shouldn't be an issue in most cases.
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I'm happy to see that I can finally restrict my giveaways to Togo. )
Thanks, Boss! D
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Can anybody help me ? How many countries are on the same level as Germany (without gift/key restrictions) ? All EU countries ? Sorry,I 've no idea :(
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EU is generally the most expensive region, so if you are buying via the Steam store, you should be able to gift to anyone regardless of winner's country. However, devs/publishers can choose to ignore Steam's price presets and have a custom value for their game that makes the EU cheaper than other countries.
In short, you should be fine in general, though you should always double check just in case.
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Great changes! Although I guess we'll see more region restricted giveaways due this. For Steam group management reasons it would be nice to still be able to access the region restricted giveaway pages (description/winners), instead of an error page. Can't the enter button just be disabled? Implemented!
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+0.999999, just so you know that you're not in charge of me, Reforced.
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yep thats how it should work. No I am making train and I have to make notes on description instead of actually including region lock. (Error breaks train)
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Can you add the ability for us to have one custom preset?
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Please make it possible to check or uncheck whole presets at once, or to save user presets.
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We need sorting not on by country name, but also by country code. As some places, like Humble bundle, gives only codes for banned or allowed countries.ž
Thanks,
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Then why are you asking a question/suggestion, you opened a thread for, again (necroing a thread in the process)?
Especially since your question has been answered with a sufficiently easy workaround.
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Well, to keep the people interested.
& no, it has not been answered. Maybe you need to check it up again?! ;)
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Hi SG,
There is a new update to the site today regarding region restrictions. Previously, you were able to select entire regions for your giveaways, such as North America, SE Asia, RU + CIS, and more. However, with recent changes to Steam the system needed to be more flexible. As of today, you are now able to select individual countries for your giveaways.
To start, visit the page to create a giveaway. Select "Yes" for "Region Restricted". You'll see a list of countries appear, which you can then customize for your giveaway. The previous regions are in the "Preset regions..." dropdown. If you choose a preset region, it will automatically select the corresponding countries in the list to save you time. However, you can check or uncheck countries after choosing a preset region if further customization is needed. If you would like to create a giveaway for all countries except for a small number, you can use the "Select All" button and then uncheck the ones you would like to exclude. A search box is included to help you quickly sort through the list.
By setting these restrictions, only users from the selected countries will be able to enter your giveaway. Ideally, you are using this feature because your gift or key is region restricted. However, you can use these restrictions as you see fit.
You'll also notice when creating a giveaway, you can now search your Steam groups. Hopefully this will be beneficial to users that have a large number of groups associated with their account.
Lastly, all previous region restricted giveaways have been updated to the new system. If you click the globe icon beside a region restricted giveaway, you'll see a list of the applied region restricted countries.
Hope you enjoy the changes!
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