Can somebody explain how region restrictions work on Steam? I won Witcher 2 off discord yesterday but it said it was the Russian edition yet still let me activate it even though I live in North America. Can people in North America activate any key? Also on a similar note what would happen if I moved countries? Would the games I already have be suddenly restricted?

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no, games from other regions cant be activated (steam will say something about regions during activating)
if u activate game - its your - play it free

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It let me activate it though. It even said RU version. I also had keys come up as ROW versions too which is rest of the world.

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strange, i try to do same with other region key and region gift, but see same message and it dont allow me to activate

maybe something change after some of updates

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if it's an old game it's only the region tag in its name (fallout new vegas has the same thing), the game is the same unless it's censored in those countries.

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Is there a way to find out if a game is censored or not?

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no idea, but witcher should be the same. maybe available languages are limited?

dunno if it will help you but if you want to check, you can look at steamdb: witcher 2 packages

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There is a curator group which lists all games that have in some form or another been censored.
http://store.steampowered.com/curator/10576967-Cut-Content-Police/
Most are those damn anime games but I found it fairly helpful for the other games.
It tells you what has been censored as well

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The key must be old, they come with the tag along but they are later made ROW is the reason you are able to activate it. If a key is region restricted, it won't activate unless you are from same region or using a vpn [ against steam tos] .

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