Hey guys, I bought the Humblebundle Capcom Super Turbo HD Remix. Those Resident Evil keys are locked to either Germany or Europe.
Firstly, does anyone know if these are German only or Europe(I know that they can't be activated in 'Murica) keys?
Secondly, can I create a giveaway that is locked to a region which is not listed in the restriction part but I will provide the information in the giveaway description?

8 years ago

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i never heard that humble keys have any region lock!

8 years ago
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Same here...

8 years ago
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It's been a thing now. If you buy the games from Humble Bundle that are in a country that has region-lock restrictions, they only apply to the country.

Seen here (https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/QB409/are-humblebundle-keys-region-locked) and here (https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/6CxmN/now-it-is-official-humble-bundle-is-fully-region-locked).

It's kinda odd, but yeah.

8 years ago
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Where have you been in the past year? o_O

8 years ago
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why is hungary affected by any region locks?

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We only have Deep Silver locking us, all others give us ROW keys. But HB issuing region-specific keys has been a thing for quite some time now.

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only bought one deep silver bundle and redeemed them all.
so i didn't even realise this is a thing .

8 years ago
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Unfortunately you can't. Just write in the description of the giveaway that the code can be activated only in Europe. I've seen people doing it.
The Resident Evil games are restricted to Europe for sure, I have previously activated Resident Evil 4 DE.

8 years ago
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no they aren't . humble seems to enforce USK now.
i'm glad austria doesn't have that problem.
the keys you activated could be the cut USK version
(if there is one)

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They are EU region locked for all buyers located in Germany:
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/7TfJO/humble-bundle-capcom-super-turbo-hd-remix-rebundle-region-locked
It was the same with the previous Capcom bundle.

8 years ago
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you should be cautious in the future not all USK games are uncut and could be region locked to germany.

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Just because people have done it doesn't mean it's allowed.

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ach wegen der USK.
die sind auf deutschland gelockt.

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create a thread and invite people to your whitelist.
just be sure those applying are sure they can activate and play those region-locked games.

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Oh another idea: Find a german steam group and make a group giveaway.
This is the official German group (most of the people are from D-A-CH): http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Deutschland-Germany
I am sure you can find some other group youself

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Those Keys arent locked to Germany you can activate them everywhere.
But you then get a USK Version (most of the time low violance) KEY which are distributed to German Customers regardless of Age.
Basically our law to protect the Young ones are misunderstood by the world, so even the adult ones of us have to deal with those low violance key thematic.

Off course you should warn People that they will receive a low violance Version of the game.

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I wanted to give one Resident Evil game to a friend in the US but unfortunately he couldn't activate it so I tried givimg him another one but none worked.

8 years ago
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lies den thread den sirironmaiden gepostet hat.
humbel gibt dir USK keys weil du eine deutsche ip adresse hast.
spiele die die usk nicht zensiert sollten in ganz europa funktionieren. (bsp.revelations 2)
spiele die die usk zensiert funktionieren wahrscheinlich nur mit deutschen accounts.

8 years ago
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Are you sure about the German-only keys? Would be a shame...
Would be cool if they are usable in Europe.

8 years ago
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the thread says they work.
but i don't think that cut usk game keys work.
you can look if there are any special packages for Germany on this site https://steamdb.info/

8 years ago
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here for example you can find a special DE package for RE revelations
https://steamdb.info/app/222480/subs/

8 years ago
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Oh, thanks a lot!

8 years ago
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no problem

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there is no such thing for RE revelations 2
https://steamdb.info/app/287290/subs/
but there is for RE 4
https://steamdb.info/app/254700/subs/
whether those keys are redeemable in europe or not is something i don't know.
but the extra packages are a bad sign.

8 years ago
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Ich war in Frankreich als ich das resident evil bundle gekauft habe. (Leider mit deutschem Paypal, hätte da jemanden Fragen sollen ^^).
Resident Evil 4 DE Digital Distribution
Resident Evil Revelations Retail (DE)
Konnte ich aus Frankreich nicht aktivieren. Also ja, Deutschland only.
Alles andere hat funktioniert.

8 years ago
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so not just ip check but also payment check.
and you can't redeem the USK keys outside of germany.

8 years ago
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Yes, humble does not care about ip at all (as far as I know). The go after the country where your credit card / paypal is registered. Kind of makes more sense anyways, since changing ips is a piece of cake ^^.

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Would be ok for me, since there are many "Not redeemable in Germany" GAs as well.
But I'm not sure, if it's officially allowed.

A higher Level or (better) a closed group would have been better, since at least 80-90% do not read the description, so you probably will have to reroll quite alot.

8 years ago
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no.
ask in this thread for a invite into the group https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/VyRfU/german-steamgifts-group-deutschsprachige-steamgifts-gruppe
and create a groupe GA for it.
but keep the warning because i don't know if the keys work in AT-CH

8 years ago
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creating an international prepaid credit card isn't that hard either

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Well its way more effort than switching ips. ^^

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germany should get rid of USK there is no logical reason for it to exist.
austria has the protection of children and youth also written in its constitution an PEGI works for us just fine.
basically because it does the same thing without censoring games that are already 18+

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Germany-only region could be a thing to add. Otherwise it's not Europe only, it is Germany, and rest of the EU gets ROW keys. Deep Silver is the publisher that has Europe as a separate region.

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maybe i read up on humble and open a thread about region locks.
australia could be affected by this too.

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yes.

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