Valve takes further steps to stop users from using VPNs to abuse regional pricing on Steam: "Valve added a limit on how often you can change your Steam account's country. Country may not be updated more than once every 3 months."

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Why is everyone in this thread blaming fellow gamers instead of greedy corporations.

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This isn’t anything new. They simply increased the ‘cooldown limit’ from 30days to 90days, that’s all. The 30days cooldown has been around for years

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Yet they Geo-Block and got fined

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They could check for cards billing address.

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Must be plenty of people abusing the shit out of the system…

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My answer will be 2 accounts. One USA and one here.

Games will be shared via Fam sharing function.

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Changing regions is becoming useless now regardless. People who live in these poor countries (including myself) can’t buy games anymore. Companies started pricing everything at 60$ here aswell. Shit fucking sucks. I’m not able to enjoy games without pirating them anymore.

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Wasn’t this the case already? I thought there were already long limits on changing countries.

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The entitled manbabies on this website prove why this rule is needed. Hopefully everyone who abuses regional prices gets their account banned.

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because of some losers regional prices are getting highter than 60 USD

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People will spend thousands on a gaming PC, only to nickel and dime as much as they can on games lol

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why not just make an alt account with those countries and gift yourself the games

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I constantly turned my VPN on and off while steam is running in the background, Only once have I ever even checked if my VPN being on ever made a difference in pricing for steam. My understand was they base it off the listed address of your account or the credit card. Ive never seen pricing being lower using a VPN.

What can I take away from this? Does steam need to be closed any time be VPN is on?

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We need to take them to court, once again. First of all the gaming industry lost already, games have to be re-sellable. You decide the price. How you like it and without fees, like selling your mixer. The court was really clear with that.

So what they did was to lock games into accounts. Because the judge didnt enforce that also accounts must be re-sellable.

Now they got greedy. Time to take away their cash cow completly.

In Europe geoblocking is also illegal

Regulation (EU) 2018/302 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 February 2018 on addressing unjustified geo-blocking and other forms of discrimination based on customers’ nationality, place of residence or place of establishment within the internal market and amending Regulations (EC)

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This hurts expats unfortunately. I remember not being able to get some games that released in my home country (USA) because I lived in Japan. I had to VPN in order to download and not wait for the months later release, if Japan even got it. Bummer.

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I thought region locking meant you couldnt do this in the first place? I know you can do this stuff with Nintendo (and they fucking deserve it) but I thought Steam screwed this possibility when it made gifting across regions impossible too.

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trying to hustle steam is like cheating on your loyal beautiful girlfriend who is nice to all your family and friends.

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I’ve always felt that if you can’t afford a game just yohoho it and contribute to the company by buying it on sale later or PRing it to buddies if its good. Of course this is coming from a guy that hadn’t bought an ea game in years due to their predatory practices or an epic game for their exclusive deals with developers.

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This will empower key sites even more.

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I’ll go on record, as a former video game producer, stating that regional pricing is an unreasonable hindrance; in short, it sucks.