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Is it me or it became impossible to activate russian gift copies?

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ViTALiTY

I asked a friend in russia to activate a gift for me, and I'm still getting the error that I cannot redeem it because of my country.

Is it just me?

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ChequeMateX

Steam has put some restrictions on gifting and trading games bough from a different region.

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leonidas56

read again

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AtomicWoodchuck

Is it possible that Valve have clamped down on this now, and no matter where you log in from, your default region (ie the one you normally use, and from which you buy your games) overrides this when it comes to activating games?

Gaben has seemingly done everything he can to eliminate cross-region trading, so this would be very much in keeping with the other changes we have seen on Steam.

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Sinovera

Might be possible, yeah, since even when purchasing games from another country you STILL have to buy from the store your billing address is in. I was visiting USA for 3 months and wanted to buy games while there, I could not use the American site because my billing address was not USA. Instead they gave me a link that redirects me to Canadian Steam and had to use that (so no American prices for me. Not that I'd want that atm...)

So perhaps they save the country of your billing address and use that as a reference point for your actual country of origin?

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madjoki

It's checks country your account is 'assigned to', not IP you're redeeming from.

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zelghadis

did they change it recently? because it surely was not like it was working few weeks ago ;p

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madjoki

Not 100% sure. But it's still easy, but you can't just open browser with VPN and redeem gifts. (I haven't done myself, but was offered free RU locked games if I split multipacks and send unlocked extra copies back)

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