Totally irrelevant poll: In how many greylists are you in?
Look below. Not it wasn't locked when I received it. That much I remember.
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Your post isn't really clear. Is the game in question a steam gift? If so this isn't retroactive as spawned gift copies typically are region locked even if the original key/gift wasn't.
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The game was Spacechem from that Humble Bundle that gave 2 gifts when you activated one. Someone gave me their gift and it certainly wasn't region locked when I got it. I just hadn't noticed when it got locked but it was fairly recently, ie not more than a month or so.
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This is not the problem about HB, its all about Steam, and nothing new, a lot of games happened that way:
There is no warning message on the gift, most likely it is an extra gift spawned when activating a key of the game, or opening a 4-pack. These gifts are always locked to the region where the original copy was activated.
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The extra gifts of the same game are a common case and I remember the uproar about them. This was slightly different as it came after activating another game. I made a mistake on this post above and said it came from same game. My bad..
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I understand, thats just a coincidence because Steam just add the warning message to Steam gift locked (was spawned when actived a key but has no warning message before) recently. I can confirm that because I live in region-locked area too, thats so annoying.
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That is simply wrong. If you're selling something to a customer in Germany you have to comply with the laws in that country. Otherwise, with your logic, selling drugs from a foreign country would be totally legal.
Also, for example, if Steam allowed german customers to buy and activate games with swastikas in it they could face criminal charges and be arrested whenever they come to Germany.
One other thing: german laws and punishments can still be applied for crimes committed in another country. Like war crimes, child abuse, rape.
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Lol? They can get into potential problems with that move. If Humble have lawyers like you they'd have gone bankrupt already.
Humble just want to do business, not dealing with stupid digital war against stupid government. Blame your gov, don't blame Steam or Humble.
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They had a bundle for another game and when you activated that in steam it automatically gave you this game in your inventory.
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The point is that I didn't purchase the game via steam, it was bundled with Humble. Of course the person that gave me the game was from SEA which explains the retroactive lock or it would make no sense why they chose that region but the fact remains that I got a game as a gift, and later, much later, it was region locked. If I didn't have the game already I would have ended up with a useless gift and more frustrated but now I'm just giving a heads up to others who have had similar trades/exchanges/gifts and maybe haven't noticed the change.
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I never had any dreams about such a change. Just a heads up (another one I suppose) for people who might have gifts in their inventory that didn't use..
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Are you sure it was recent?
Steam gift trading changes
I don't see any actual region locks on SpaceChem, so I'm thinking that the above is the cause.
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The gift I got around December 2015 and it was almost definitely not region locked. I say almost just to leave a very small percentage just in case. But yeah, it wasn't locked or I would've used it back then in a giveaway as I have no use for it.
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Well, the game itself doesn't need any region lock, but nonetheless, when you buy a Steam gift in a locked country, it will be tagged and locked down to that specific region. This is what the "no cross-region trading" warning put up by Enhanced Steam refers to. Even completely independent games that have zero regions are falling into this category to prevent regional pricing exploits.
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How can you be sure it wasn't already locked, just without the proper tag?
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Fair point. So there's a chance it was locked, without any indication whatsoever and it would only mention it when I would try to activate the gift? I thought locked games would have at least some indication when you just click on them and see the description.
On the other hand there was no such talk, from what I remember, about locked games from Humble back in December, although admittedly that is kind of a rare case because the gift appeared when you activated another game (you probably remember the case)
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Usually yes, but not all. For example, I had this happen: a player gifted me a game (steam gift), I activated it fine and it created another copy of the gift. However, despite me being in row region and it having no tags, when I tried to activate it on an alt, it turned out being region locked.
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Yes, it happened to me to.
Few months ago, I activated Gun Monkeys CD Key, which gives me an extra copy to my inventory. That time, the gift doesn't have a region locked mark. And few days ago, there's Space Farmers CD Key giveaway on gleam which is also gives me an extra copy, and that time there's no region-locked mark. Now, both gifts have the region-locked mark.
So, it seems that if you activated a ROW key which gives you an extra copy to your inventory, it becomes region-locked if you activated in restricted country (such as SEA, RU, LATAM). I remember that in the past, many users complained about cannot activated an extra gift copy even though there's no region-locked mark on it, and now Steam fixed it by applying the region-locked mark.
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I still have the gift I got from activating a key but it's not been region locked, I can't quite remember who I got the game from but I'm fairly certain they were from USA or UK
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Exactly? Lies!!!
I usually don't keep them that much but this was an extra copy hence.. But on the bright side, it will end up in my next giveaway so will make some SEA-related person happi-er ;)
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If I didn't know you better I would have thought you're trying to sneak in a hidden giveaway :-o
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I don't remember seeing a mention of this, but then again I'm never online..
Today I noticed a game (gift) I have in my inventory became region locked (SEA). I have the game already and kept the extra for some other use like give to a friend, trade or gift, so I wasn't paying attention to its status. But it's upsetting to realise that they can retroactively change the status of any game, even though you know that's always the issue with DRM..it's just not your game
And there you have it, that's all..
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