[PSA] updating your region to France with a VPN can get u banned

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Hello fellow traders,

Yesterday a csgo update came out that gave people in france an exclusive p250 x-ray (for 2.2€) that u need to open containers.

I’ve heard that alot of people saw Anomaly’s video and changed their store regions to France to get their p250

However, what he didnt tell u is that if u change your region to something else with the use of a VPN u could get your account suspended/deleted

Alot of people have another store region just fine and it usually goes well, and u will probably only get banned if u abuse markets.

Just be warned that you ARE breaking steam TOS and anything can happen, just wanted this out here since anomaly did not warn about what could happen if u do this.

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Next video from him: “valve unrightfully banned me and I don’t know why?!?!”

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I wonder if valve would really ban someone for swapping the store, paying 2.2 euros to get a non tradeable skin, and swapping back

as in, would they turn a blind eye for the money? or just completely ignore it as long as it isn’t abused.

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It feels weird. We’re reaching a critical point now in online where our accounts hold high value both in terms of real world value and implied value from our attachment to the entertainment they provide.

I have a 16 year Steam account. I have a 12 year PSN account. Steam is probably valued at over £800 in resellable items alone, plus around £2000 in applications value. I have close to a similar value on PSN; a good 20 or so purchased games and 2 games every month from PS+…

I can see a critical point coming whereby our access to this volume…decades of purchases…can’t be withdrawn from us at a whim from companies who provide access to it. Losing Steam access due to use of VPN seems small to some but could be a massive loss, emotionally even, to others.

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Been away from trading and csgo for a couple of months. Why is it exclusive?

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Yeah you COULD get banned, but if people have never been banned for exploiting store regions to personally get games cheaper, then they’re not going to ban people for using a VPN to get a weapon skin that has 0 value.

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wouldn’t be the first time would it?

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U mean “Papa gaben banned my account papa!”

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Yea I kinda want the X-ray skin too so I might just get ita

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Keep in mind actually swapping the store is a big no-no, that being said just using a VPN to change your region won’t change your store. I just double checked it and I would have to manually change the store region to France, it still appears in USD to me

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Don’t break the rules if you don’t want your account banned. The rules are there to protect the community.

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If you logged in within the dame day from the us then France then back to us.

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he didn’t tell anyone to do it, he just said “I changed my steam store region to france” and in the video it seemed to work fine for him

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Could still be done, no way they could confirm that 100%.

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That didn’t tell me why tho

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He has an audience. If any one of his fans wants the p250, theyre gonna do what he did to get it.

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Lol, i remember doing that for pokemon go, but I just also don’t care enough to risk it for the x ray skin when I have the muertos

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It’s hard for them to enforce, I doubt they do it at all since I have used a VPN to change my alt’s store location to Argentina (over the course of 2 minutes, mind you) and was never reprimanded.