Hello, steamgifters.
Yesterday I met an interesting problem. As you know, there are a on Indiegala. I was interested in Agents of mayhem. Before i bought it, I checked region restriction, and it said
Region locked game "it will only work in the region from where it is bought"
Well, once I got key, I tried to activate it in steam and got a message "This key can't be activated in this region".
Of course I wrote a letter to IG support, but there is still no answer.
May be you faced such problem before and can suggest some solution of give any advice?
In advance, thanks for help.

P.S. I don't use any proxy or VPN or etc.

5 years ago

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Is your Steam account region the same as the region you used for purchasing the game from Indiegala?

5 years ago
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Where I can see, what is my region in IG? (I thought, that Indiegala take my region from my steam account linked to IG account)

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"region you used for purchasing the game" means a region set for your payment method (CC/ PayPal account)

5 years ago
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Payed with local debit card of local bank.

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Sadly you can't see your IndieGala region. I assume they take it from the IP you used when purchasing and / or the payment settings.
I see that you list Turkey as your country on your Steam profile, so I assume you purchased the game from a Turkish IP?
If so, then the following should match:

  • purchase from a Turkish IP
  • using a Turkish payment method
  • and having your Steam store region to Turkey (Turkish money in your account) so that you can activate the game.

I checked the SteamDB versions for this game and they're a bit weird. It would be great if we could have the SubId that the key activates so that we can investigate further, but for that you would need to activate it via ASF since the classic Steam activation does not provide a SubId.

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IndieGala and Fanatical base the region on the current IP, yes. I ran into it a few times.

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Well, in all case key have to work, because, as I said, I don't use any proxy and VPN, so IG have to see turkish IP, and for payment I use debit card of turkish bank. And, as you saw, the region in my steam acc also set as Turkey. =)
P.S. What SubId and ASF are (I know ASF as Apache Software Foundation only =))?

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ASF is ArchiSteamFarm (SteamGifts thread).

Each app on the Steam store belongs to one or more Subs (basically when you buy something from the store, you buy a subscription to that item = a sub); but think of SubIds as some "packages" that can hold multiple apps and have specific region locks and run locks.

If all the regions match then I don't know what else to suggest than waiting for an answer from the support time. Sorry that I couldn't be more useful than that.

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Thank you for explanation. =)

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Thank you, but look like you misunderstand me. I bought this key without a problem. The problem is I can't activate it in steam. And, no, there are no any region settings on IndieGala.

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Looking at the subIDs...
45052: Worldwide
188431: Restricted against AL AD AT BE BA BG HR CY CZ DK EE FI FR GE DE GR HU IS IE IT LV LI LT LU MK MT MC CS NL NO PL PT RO SM CS SK SI ES SE CH GB VA AX FO GI GG IM JE SJ
188432: Restricted to AM AZ BY GE KZ KG MD RU TJ TM UZ UA
188452: Restricted against US CA AL AD AT BE BA BG HR CY CZ DK EE FI FR GE DE GR HU IS IE IT LV LI LT LU MK MT MC CS NL NO PL PT RO SM CS SK SI ES SE CH TR GB VA AX FO GI GG IM JE SJ RU AM AZ BY GE KZ KG MD TJ TM UZ UA NZ AU PG CK NF NU TK
188453: Same as above
191713: Restricted to Australia and New Zealand
191717: Worldwide

45052, 188431 and 191717 should work in Turkey, the other 4 packages would not.
My guess is they gave you either 188452 or 188453 and should have given you 188431

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Problem was solved, IG support just asked for screenshots of activation error and gave me another key.
Thanks to everybody, who help me in this little discussion.

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