You have to be able to prove that you legally live in the country you want to be able to switch the store and currency to if I remember correctly.
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I have moved, how do I change my store country?
If you have permanently changed your country of residence, you can set your store country to reflect that. Go to your Account Details page and you'll find Store Country in the right column under Your Steam Account. Once you've selected your new country of residence, you'll need to verify it by using a local payment method tied to a local address for your next purchase.
For example:
Say you've recently moved to the United States. You'll now see United States as an option in the Store Country drop down. Selecting it will change your store to display products and pricing available in the United States. To verify your new country of residence, your next purchase will require a payment method tied to an address within the United States.
I have people in the US, who can get me that store option by logging in there. Then I can give them an option of local pay(?) for them to prove it also for residence. Hence it will I think enable me the option bottom-most.
What if I spend time in more than one country?
You can select any of the countries available in the Store Country drop down to view that country's available products and pricing. Your next purchase will require a payment method tied to an address within that country.
For example:
Say you live in France part of the year and in Vietnam the rest of the year. You can choose either as your Store Country as long as you have a local payment method.
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Yet, this is also still a theory. Not sure if people have done this before. Most just go by VPN. But I don't want to deal with that, especially since I usually use Steam to keep my wishlist and buy items through with that. Now they become region-locked.
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PayPal gives you the possibility to pay globally but your account is bound to your homecountry, so your, for example, PayPal will be belgian if you live there and registered there.
I think credit cards work the same. Redeemable gift cards could be a thing that would work but I don't think that Steam says you can just trick the system, but imagine having more than one residence in more than one country. You'd maybe end up with more than one bank account that you can pay with.
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Well, yeah, but this means you would have to actually live where your PayPal account is from. I hooked my PayPal to my bank account and use my address for shipment so how would I want to trick them and why would I even wanna do that? I don't think PayPal wants that either.
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I put my PayPal up ages ago so I can't remember the process and have been told that it changed a lot during the years.
Don't you have any address on your PayPal that identifies your country? And doesn't PayPal use IP recognition itself to know where you are from?
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Hmm, well I think so. But think on it, I can purchase through Paypal on Amazon, and I can purchase a "US Mastercard Giftcard" with that too. Which means it's still a global platform since anywhere allows it to be used. I can still convert even if Paypal itself were to restrict me on one platform.
Well, I guess what I'm doing is still "finding a way around", but when it comes to legals, things are only "certain", and most of them are exploitable, legally. That's what I'm trying (And that's also what lawyers do, too, irl). :P
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I know and since it doesn't harm anyone I don't care, just thinking about the options here and your risk of getting caught.
The US Mastercard would be an option, but you still couldn't proof any residence in the states you live in or have.
I can purchase off of Amazon too but as soon as I try to get something from the american or english Amazon they ask for a credit card for example.
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They don't. I use a Swedish IP address regularly and Steam didn't even ask me what's up with that. I still use local pricing though.
Oh, yeah, and they will want a payment method that is tied to an address. Mostly a bank card, although as someone mentioned, PayPal can work too since they need to verify your address/bank account/card anyway.
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So far I've known from VPNs (Well, not personally tried it but) you need to activate, make a file read-only to keep the region, and some games work like that. But some need VPN to be kept permanently, because they're hard-region-locked, I guess.
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I was reading through if there was a way for me to change how Steam region stuff works, so I found this page.
And there, clearly states you can use multiple stores if you have multiple local payment methods for that. So here's my question, what would that "local payment" work with? Does it have to be a local credit card/debit card OR could it be also local redeemable gift cards, and/or a service like Paypal(which is global)?
Main reason is, if it is possible, to change regions legally as possible, for me to get rid of this region blockage I don't like. (Which I also plan on moving abroad in the next years, I don't wanna deal with my old games not being able to be played outside the country. So at least I want to avoid that.)
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