I heard region restricted giveaways are frowned upon

Why should you care? Make the giveaway and let them try to burn you. Throw water at them.

Maybe if they only create region restricted, but enter/win a lot of public giveaways, then I could see someone frowning on it. But personally, I wouldn't worry about it. People will find fault in almost anything you do lol

Meh, people can be really obnoxious. Ignore them. I see no reason why someone should be looked down on because they are generous enough to give away some games for people in their own region. Sometimes the restriction can't be helped.

I really don't like region restricted giveaways. But more and more frequently the games I want to give away (either bought or bundle left overs) come with region locked keys. And you get region-locked keys no matter where you buy.

So then I have 3 options:

1. Just don't create giveaways at all (boo! hiss!).

2. Create giveaway for region-locked keys but don't region restrict the GA. And then deal with the fallout when the winner can't redeem the key, which isn't worth the disappointment and headaches that causes.

3. Create giveaways with region restrictions based on the region locks, cause minor annoyance for some people because they can't enter, maybe get blacklisted over it once or twice because of it too, but make sure the key ends up with someone who can use it and will hopefully play and enjoy the game.

And I'll choose option 3.

Edit:
I should mention that yes, I'm in the European region. And the keys I can get nowadays are either ROW, or they lock out Latin America & RU/CIS. The latter is almost guaranteed if the game's from one of the bigger publishers.

As it's already been pointed out, someone who only does region restricted GA's but win mostly non-restricted games might be frowned upon. I can see why and at the same time, there's a part of me that doesn't care. But at the end of the day, you do what you want. This might yield you some blacklist spots but even so, that's nothing to be upset about. I did buy some games from HB/Fanatical because of the crappy Steam gifting policy that focuses on regions... but I do understand that people would rather choose to pay less for their GA's. At least you're trying to make some people happy by giving away games? Which is better than not contributing at all.

As a person in a region that always gets the middlefinger (Europe), I say, at least you are making giveaways and making people happy. But yeah, I would love to enter that giveaway.

For sure if all giveaways could be restricted to my region, I wouldn't mind ;)

I restrict all my giveaways to Wakanda :D

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Not heard of people "burning" others , blacklisting however can happen.
Basically region-locked games imply you bought them cheap, and you're putting a restriction on who can enter.
I am one of those people who generally only does public giveaways, with the only restriction being level - to hopefully reward those who are also giving but I'll admit I blacklist winners of my giveaways who mainly only do group/region-restricted/whitelist-only giveaways.
People hate me for it, and it may be pointless, but it's not like they lost out on winning something from me in the first place, right?
The only other people I blacklist are people who are complete jerks in the forums - I've also been blacklisted for the same reason :D

don't worry, you will probably never be able to enter a GA by people saying that, because they either make all group giveaways or restrict them with sgtools filters.

so what they are doing in "retaliation" is even worse than a region locked giveaway (selfish and petty), which is usually the result of someone living in a country with regional pricing.

I don't see any reason to hate them unless user is only making region restricted giveaways...

how much wasted time witch hunting

I wonder if all they can do with their lives is that

region restricted giveaways give better chances to win if they live in there. I'd prefer to roll for something nice with 150 entries than some recent expensive game with 5000 entries.

I heard that there is a section in the community who burn you for region restricted giveaway.

I'd say don't put too much stock in rumors, and do what you want/need to do!

There was a thread sometime ago where a bunch of people revealed reasons why they'd blacklist someone.
Some were for asinine or petty reasons. Hell, a few said if someone won one of their GA they'd blacklist them to "weed out" past winners.
So literally someone on this site will blacklist you at some point for some random reason.
If you want to to do all your GAs as level specific region locked then that's your prerogative. It's that rustles anyone jimmies that's their problem. Fuck em.

https://www.steamgifts.com/stats/community/users
check which country has the highest population in this site

You'll understand why most SG user prefer Retail key than direct gift

There are people here from the U.S. that restrict their giveaways to U.S. people only and I'm sure there are others doing the same in their respective countries even though they don't need to because of regional restrictions. I wouldn't worry about it. You are doing giveaways and that's what counts.

The only solution is to move to a ROW region, obviously.

It is mostly because you could often see that people who levelled up using region-restricted games (way above 80% region-restricted) "somehow" always ended up with a 70%+ region-free win record. Around two years ago, there was essentially an entire subsection of SteamGifts you could have renamed SG RU, made up almost exclusively by level 5+ users like this.
Now, it is a lot more evenly spread, mostly thanks to Steam also supporting region-specific keys. Heck, it is impossible to make giveaways for some games for WW. Capcom and Deep Silver are especially notorious for this.

Who cares if someone has problem with your giveaway? You give something for free away, if anyone has problem with it, than put them in blacklist (or not if you don't want to even bother with it) and be happy. Yep, in some case your gift if lower priced if you buy it for some region only, and, who cares. Heck, the site already don't list you region locked stuff outside your position, so you not even now about those locked giveaways, unless search for them.

I have a bit high region restricted ga but it's because it appears in the bundle notes before I buy, which countries can't activate.

You see this: :( This is me frowning at you right now! I'm frowning because I could not enter your awesome giveaways because I do not live in your region. What are you going to do about it, huh?

If you answered that you will relocate to North America and continue making awesome giveaways, you chose correctly. :)