Your region most likely. Try to add the gift to your library, it usually pops up what region it's restricted in.
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If' it's a guest pass then it probably doesn't function as a gift. Those are limited by duration right? I have one of those from Thread Space Hyperbol.
Anyway, I don't see why it would have a different region lock metric compared to other region locks so it's most likely tied to your region.
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I actually just had a BRILLIANT idea, even if I do say so myself...I could run a one-day GA for it, send it to the winner, and if it IS region-locked and they can't use it, I can just buy another $1 bundle and send them the key from that :D
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All you do is claim. You claim the message isn't true, but the message is generated by a system that generates the message based on a property. I have no reason to doubt the system, but I have reason to doubt you. Only Valve can clarify because only they get to look that up in their database. Anything else is at best empirical with a poor basis, but far from proven.
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Bought and activated on Spain. Restricted message appeared anyways
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I've made a pretty much similar thread :)
http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/eCbo7/restricted-gift-or-is-it
The answer is, if the region you activated the copy in is generally locked (like Russia) then there is lock. If on the other hand, you live in a region that doesn't see locked games (like me - Poland), then the game isn't locked at all.
Also I've made a giveaway of it and the winner didn't have any problems activating :)
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So, I just bought the first tier of the new Humble Weekly so that I could activate Skulls Of The Shogun and get all those GAs off my feed, and when I activated FSP I had a gift copy turn up in my inventory. Problem is, the giftable copy says "This is a restricted gift which can only be redeemed in certain countries." but it doesn't say WHICH countires...can anyone tell me how I can find out so I can give it to someone from the right region?
Keep in mind, though, I'm not going to make an actual GA on here for it because I know that's against the rules, I'll either give it away on another site that handles restricted games OR just do a GA here in the duiscussions...I still need to find out where it can be activated though :/
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