with summer sale soon approaching... bump for this important PSA
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Will it work in my case? Is this restriction on top of the 15% rule? I have been trying to figure this out but i am not sure :((
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I figured I would give this a bump since the Summer Sale is going on.
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I wish this could be pinned. The summer sale is still going on so I'm going to bump this to spread more awareness.
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While fitting in the 15% price range is important, one should be aware that there is also another possible obstacle with cross-region gifting - the region locks of the games.
The problem is some games are using region locks (usually to generate region locked keys) and then such region locked games are also sold in the steam store. And if the game is region locked adding the gift to your library in not supported region won't be possible even if the gifter pass the price requirements and the only thing support could do is to roll back everything and do the refund.
I'm speaking from personal expierience, however I must admit it was few years ago when it happened to me so there might be a chance that steam has done something with it
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Does steam actually prevent access to your steam account? I have a friend who got banned for similar reasons but he can use his account and access his library normally, he simply can't make any purchases or trades, he can't activate cdkeys and he can't send friend requests.
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Since Steam is having a big sale, I figured this would be a good time to bump. Hopefully the thread will stay near the top for awareness.
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Bump for awareness.
I wish I could pin this to the top of the discussion boards.
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I didn't know that. So does that make me a but many aren't? How's it different from being a human?
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I just gifted someone a game to Canada with 15,4% difference
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Which game?
Are you certain they are in Canada and their steam store is set to that? You'll come across people who list different countries on their steam profiles and they aren't actually in that location.
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Yeah im sure. It was House Flipper 2.
Basically i did it for science, cuz i was curious if it will go thru.
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Hello again. Germany has a higher price than Canada, thus the gifting is possible. The 15% restriction applies only when the recipient has a higher price than the sender.
If you buy from Germany 26,24€ = CDN$ 42.96
If you buy from Canada: CDN$ 36.39
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Oh i thought its a general thing, like a difference in both ways.
So if the game is even 100% cheaper elsewhere im able to to gift it to them?
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I made mistake and Lilly mentioned it so updated the thread to correct it, so now it shouldn't lead to any confusion. Big thanks to Lilly. Sorry about that. :)
If the country you are gifting to has a price that is higher than yours than the 15% or over applies and you likely won't be able to gift it. There is no restrictions if your price is higher than the country you are trying to gift it to.
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Oh so it wasnt my fault? yihaa :D
I thought that im just too stupid to read it correctly ^^
Anyway, learnt something new, so thanks for that.
And also thanks to Lilly, who apparently is still a gamechanger even tho retired 🥂
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Someone tried to gift me something which is -14% for me and it didnt work
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They are Billions.
but we tried other ones and also didnt work when 14%
Btw: He US me GER
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That game doesn't allow cross region trading and gifting, so it doesn't matter what percent difference it is.
https://steamdb.info/sub/180987/info/
EDIT: This apparently only applies when gifts through a steam inventory.
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https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/LxYIWSb
i gifted curious expeditions 2 without issue, and it has this warning too
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Interesting, I wasn't aware of that, thanks. So that warning is basically for things in the steam inventory and not through purchasing via the steam store page.
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What i don't understand is, he tried to gift you and it didn't work while you're in the cheaper region ? That would be something new.
edit : ah no i just checked on steamdb, you mean that the gift is 14% cheaper in US than in Europe, and he tried to gift you from a 14% cheaper country to Europe.
Well then, it's because 14% difference is too much. Usually i go with 10% to be sure.
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Yeah i just thought everything below 15% would work
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I went straight to checking if it have cross region disabled instead of checking the pricing first(not that it matters, since I was not aware that only applies to gifting through the inventory). Thanks for proving the explanation to mourinhos86.
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You have to compare right way, USD vs EUR has +16.47%
Trivial example: 1 EUR is 1.16 USD, which translates to you get +16% U.S currency against Europe, and opposite way you get -14% Europe currency against U.S, so always matters source to target
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Since the holidays are here I figured it would be a good idea to bump the thread. Would be cool if it was sticked though one day. Til then maybe bumping this for awareness would be cool.
Side note: Please keep in mind for purchasing things like Resident Evil and other Capcom games, Square Enix games, Bandia Namco games from stores these are often badly region locked. If you need help trying to figure out region locks I can do my best to try assist you. For games that are bundled you'll often find the region locks on one of the threads created here on SG. Remember we can't reroll when it comes to region locks, so using the region lock tags provided by SG on GA creation is a good idea.
Just to give you an idea of things. I wanted to use Resident Evil Village and another RE game for my GA group and they were region locked just to NA, so the GAs didn't happen due to that.
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Giving this a bump for awareness since it is the holiday time of the year.
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Steam should just allow us to overpay whatever the difference if we want to gift other people.
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Are you sure no restrictions from the higher cost country, or was it fixed? I've had issues gifting when my price was higher than their local price.
I get around it by adding them as a friend - after 3days steam will allow me to send a GC so they can complete the purchase.
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I know some of you are aware of this already, but many aren't.
So if you plan on gifting on Steam head over to Steamdb and check the pricing. If the country you are gifting to has a price that is higher than yours, then the 15% or over applies, and you likely won't be able to gift it. There are no restrictions if your price is higher than the country you are trying to gift it to.
This percent is based on the data that SG member Luckz found using Steamdb regional pricing data when attempting to gift Steam users in different regions. I've provided the pic below for those wanting to see it. Just to be clear the percent is not an official answer from Valve.
So now it's time to create the giveaway! When creating your giveaway apply the appropriate region lock tags provided through SG. For those that don't know about the region lock tags on here you want to check ones you can gift to, not vice versa (this mistake sometimes happens). Please remember to take into consideration sales times and that the winner has 7 days to redeem the gift, so plan accordingly.
PSA: While the prices can be appealing in other regions of the world, keep in mind if you use VPN on Steam to buy things you can lose your account. We're not talking about a VAC ban, we're talking about your account and all your games gone permanently.
Hopefully this thread will help some of you who weren't aware of any of this previously. :)
I've provide a pic that explains things as well.
Here's a simple pic that explains things.
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