Oh, certainly. I meant for traditional commercial use.
Right, so you can still receive gift copies.
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Oh, certainly. I meant for traditional commercial use.
Right, so you can still receive gift copies.
Right, so you can still receive gift copies.
no, he actually can't, unless people report this falsely, you can't gift any game locked to that region.
somebody here can check, I'm at work, so I can't.
I did check:
You should post that in the Valve changed gifting - could lead to piracy thread.
Before ConsoleGaf starts with the Valve/Steam hate again.
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ashecitism
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Yeah, a valve dev recently said on twitter
and given Gabe's comments in their roundtable event how it's not going to be great as Unity for many and they're still thinking how to deliver it and that there's a lot of work with documentation, tools and updates which is a question of priority...yeah. Certainly a different tune to 2015's "it's going to be out for free for everyone".
Chairmanchuck is going to be happy
Haha, I didn't actually buy it, unfortunately.
Dusk Golem
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Anyways, I do think Steam may be very close to a number of big changes outside of gifting. We know Steam Direct is on the horizon and Spring doesn't last much longer, we know about Steam Explorers and such things, it sounds like we're very close to several big updates hitting the storefront. Guess they decided to push the gift thing ahead of the others.
I do have some mixed feelings on it. On one side, I can understand why. I don't think this is a 100% negative. But I think it sucks for many for a number of reasons. For me it sucks because of making inventory items to play games with friends later.
At least this doesn't seem to effect gifts you already had in your inventory before this change, though. I had been storing some multiplayer games to gift to friends when I stopped being busy this summer to play with them. I also am happy gifting still can work, but sometimes you buy a game you don't quite know who you want to give to yet when it's on sale.
I do have some mixed feelings on it. On one side, I can understand why. I don't think this is a 100% negative. But I think it sucks for many for a number of reasons. For me it sucks because of making inventory items to play games with friends later.
At least this doesn't seem to effect gifts you already had in your inventory before this change, though. I had been storing some multiplayer games to gift to friends when I stopped being busy this summer to play with them. I also am happy gifting still can work, but sometimes you buy a game you don't quite know who you want to give to yet when it's on sale.
Your account region is determined by the region within which you last completed a purchase.
Chairmanchuck
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I emailed Steam before when I got my chinese residence permit so they manually changed it to China. Now I think they do an IP check or so?
Edit: Or what Jasec said.
Chairmanchuck
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Chairmanchuck is unhappy
Not really. I will wait for a sale. I havent even finished DQH1.
I did check:
There's regional locking, but it only checks value of "PurchaseRestrictedCountries", not if it's in store.
In that case:
Chairmanchuck
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Xenoverse 2 isnt locked here. Xenoverse 1 is.
There's regional locking, but it only checks value of "PurchaseRestrictedCountries", not if it's in store.
In that case:
Yeah, I just realised that, as per the post I made mere seconds before you, haha.
Spin is in India.
Chairmanchuck
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There's regional locking, but it only checks value of "PurchaseRestrictedCountries", not if it's in store.
In that case:
So what does that mean? lol
If the sub is set up to only be purchasable in specific countries, then it can only be sent as a gift to users in those regions. It's actually increasingly rare for region-specific store subs to have the PurchaseRestrictedCountries flags attached these days, though, since the loophole that allowed users to purchase a PRC-free sub in an unintended region was closed circa Dying Light.
Rayman Origins for £0.99
http://www.game.co.uk/en/rayman-origins-208781/?cm_sp=PC-_-eSpot3-_-RaymanOrigins
http://www.game.co.uk/en/rayman-origins-208781/?cm_sp=PC-_-eSpot3-_-RaymanOrigins
This is a great deal
Wok
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So Valve let you delete games from your account so that you could realize that you would not want to collect everyone of them. With this new mindset, you may attach some worth to a few games again, and you can come back to the original mindset of "wait for games to reach the price they are worth to you method". Valve is like a fisherman who would catch a whale, and release it again to catch it again. We are all Valve's fish.
Snakethesniper
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Steam is over, close the thread
I blame Anime.
Not because it did something, that's just my default reaction to anything bad.
Some can be gifted. Depends on how subs are set up.
The error pops up when you try to move past the gift note step.
You'll notice it if you can't gift
Is it client only? Cause Ive been testing a few games that have price differences, but nothing happens, Im able to get to the cc page, this is in browser.
It's a store-level thing. If you can reach the purchase confirmation screen, then it's a valid gift purchase.
Dusk Golem
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I love the thread title change, just noticed it.
I can understand the problems related to gift changes, honestly. Too bad for some countries
On the other side, I'm trying to understand Valve too... Maybe they're trying to stop gifting reselling on G2A/Kinguin?
But this would lead to piracy in some countries... Right? :/
Some developers favors piracy than being scammed that cost them money
http://www.fortressofdoors.com/g2a-piracy-and-the-four-currencies/
I mean, the shady credit card fraud sellers will just offer popular games then that are guaranteed to sell quickly and send the gift directly instead of hoarding it.I can understand the problems related to gift changes, honestly. Too bad for some countries
On the other side, I'm trying to understand Valve too... Maybe they're trying to stop gifting reselling on G2A/Kinguin?
But this would lead to piracy in some countries... Right? :/
That's atleast how I imagine they will circumvent this but I haven't bought anything on steam with CC yet so I don't know if they have extra restrictions.
I agree pretty much with jshackles on the matter.
I suspect that one of the main reasons Valve had in mind when they opted to restrict gifting was G2A and the alike and giftresellers.
It certainly makes sense now once that steam wallet limit has increased to $2000. I don't think Valve wanted to let people hoard easily even more gifts on their inventories.
As people have said before me this prevents users to buy games cheaper on big sales to resell them after when price games are back to normal and also kills game price glitches.(+ the G2A marketplace involved)
Once again, this proves how abusing from a system (few people trading/reselling compared with steam user base numbers) leads to an impact on the majority of the community.
One easy example, one of the last few really good offers on steam store was Endless Space Collection for 1$.
People hoarded those gifts to resell them later, presumable after trading period restriction lifted (30 days)
Sad thing is what big publishers are doing with regional prices, that's really unfair and they must take actions on it.
What JaseC and Madjoki have explained before but in case you are still confused, then the example of JaseC and Xenoverse 2.
Xenoverse 2 on store has this specific sub,
which has this type of restriction tied
So if JaseC buys it he can't gift it to anybody who lives in those specific countries listed above.
I suspect that one of the main reasons Valve had in mind when they opted to restrict gifting was G2A and the alike and giftresellers.
It certainly makes sense now once that steam wallet limit has increased to $2000. I don't think Valve wanted to let people hoard easily even more gifts on their inventories.
As people have said before me this prevents users to buy games cheaper on big sales to resell them after when price games are back to normal and also kills game price glitches.(+ the G2A marketplace involved)
Once again, this proves how abusing from a system (few people trading/reselling compared with steam user base numbers) leads to an impact on the majority of the community.
One easy example, one of the last few really good offers on steam store was Endless Space Collection for 1$.
People hoarded those gifts to resell them later, presumable after trading period restriction lifted (30 days)
Sad thing is what big publishers are doing with regional prices, that's really unfair and they must take actions on it.
What JaseC and Madjoki have explained before but in case you are still confused, then the example of JaseC and Xenoverse 2.
Xenoverse 2 on store has this specific sub,
So if JaseC buys it he can't gift it to anybody who lives in those specific countries listed above.
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Birthdays the Beginning seems cool, I like the fact that there's a collection of the creature you can capture
edit: also Jawmuncher alert? http://store.steampowered.com/app/608990/The_Archotek_Project/
edit: also Jawmuncher alert? http://store.steampowered.com/app/608990/The_Archotek_Project/
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