BasilZero
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Is there a way to check what region the game you got from is?
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All Russian/Brazillian (or similar) games on Steam now have regional activation locks
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Is there a way to check what region the game you got from is?
Scrooge McDuck
Member
Are ROW games locked, too?
JehutyRunner
Banned
Not that I'm aware of.
im conflicted, to be honest
it's not like I can complaint in the sense that the Russian stuff was real and it was a loophole to paying a lot less for new games
the thing im not psyched about nor understand from their point of view is that the solution to that seems to fuck me over as well in the sense that i'll probably wont be able to gift or recieve games outside of latin america soon, which doesnt make any sense considering they're the same price and currency and basically leaves me with 2 people on my friend list I can trade stuff with.
it's not like I can complaint in the sense that the Russian stuff was real and it was a loophole to paying a lot less for new games
the thing im not psyched about nor understand from their point of view is that the solution to that seems to fuck me over as well in the sense that i'll probably wont be able to gift or recieve games outside of latin america soon, which doesnt make any sense considering they're the same price and currency and basically leaves me with 2 people on my friend list I can trade stuff with.
texhnolyze
Banned
Heh.
My region has been locked to some games all these years. Doesn't really change anything as the prices are already low here.
My region has been locked to some games all these years. Doesn't really change anything as the prices are already low here.
Hero Prinny
Member
i started buying games more frequent thats to the russian prices, when they added those trading restrictions though i lost interest in a lot of games, no interest in paying what they're asking, not enough content to justify the content imo, like Infinity 2.0
josecitoxnyo
Member
What if i have a game on my inventory that says RU OLD. What does that mean?
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I'm glad I got The Witcher 3 on GOG instead of Steam and on the cheap.
I'll probably buy a little less or just wait for sales.
I'll probably buy a little less or just wait for sales.
SwiftDeath
Member
Wait so are we thinking literally all games from all regions are region-locked or just games from specific regions [Russia, Brazil etc.]?
Madrugador
Member
Fuck, I'm near Brazil but the prices aren't even cheaper here.
Was just going to post asking this, yeah looks shit is hitting the fan.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
With the dolar rising up the prices are only going to get worse.
lots of people here who arent from the US
basically this could lead to giveaways on GAF and stuff like that being pointless unless you're from the same region
it's an extreme and unnecessary solution to a very specific problem that took advantage of one single country
Cheesemeister
Member
Screw this noise. Restricting access to games isn't something that should happen in a civilized world.
BinaryPork2737
Unconfirmed Member
Valve has steadily been implementing region locking practices for a while, but this is a bit of a jump. It's probably related to the rapid devaluation of the Russian Ruble.
Unless they happen to be people from a country such as Russia and like to gift games to friends from different countries, sure.
Piston Hyundai
Member
Well, on the bright side, that dev has a dick butt profile picture.
more like unless you're from brazil, which is almost same price and had nothing to do with this shit
kutthoat5150
Member
Hope that doesn't effect my witcher 3 purchase I made here, interested to see how this plays out
Sentenza
Member
That's the usual old argument.
It's scamming the system when consumers try to look for themselves; it's globalization and free market when corporations go in foreign countries looking for cheap labor.
And they even manage to convince consumers to preach self-loathing about it.
GregLombardi
Member
Wait. WAIT.
Does this mean I don't have to play with people from other regions / languages in DOTA 2?
Why do I think this is the only thing it doesn't mean?
Does this mean I don't have to play with people from other regions / languages in DOTA 2?
Why do I think this is the only thing it doesn't mean?
People buying the Russian version for dirt cheap ($1-15) over their region ($40-60) for new titles.
Publishers, rightly, are pissed.
BinaryPork2737
Unconfirmed Member
That was supposed to be a catch-all for all countries affected by this, including Brazil, but yeah. It really sucks for everyone.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I can understand but this can genuinely curb my spending habits and I will forgo steam for goog if the games are there on each platform and I can still get a decent discount at times. The way I look at it as well, I wouldn't even be thinking about buying certain games if I couldn't get them a little cheaper. & I mean this in a legitimate way and not those stupid key sites.
I don't think it will deter me from buying games when they're on sale but this is probably going to hurt the market as a lot of people Dookie trading and stuff like this for legit purposes. I would like to see the effects of this about a month from now just to see if this is good or bad.
I don't think it will deter me from buying games when they're on sale but this is probably going to hurt the market as a lot of people Dookie trading and stuff like this for legit purposes. I would like to see the effects of this about a month from now just to see if this is good or bad.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Time to move to origin
Scrooge McDuck
Member
Not really. Some versions of games are gimped in certain regions. Like Final Fantasy XIII is only available in Japanese in my region despite our language being nothing close to theirs.
Not to mention the games that straight-up not available in my country.
lashman
Steam-GAF's Official Ambassador to Gaming-GAF
apparently there ARE oceans on the Internet ... we just didn't know about them ...
you mean the place that sells me games in Euros when im in latin america?
So you have problems with people who spend money for a game and I imagine people who pirate to. People should just do what you do right?
RecursiveFault
Banned
Is it just RUS or is every region locked?
Explaining this in the OP would probably help when all the people reading the title just do drive by comments.
SwiftDeath
Member
Well DOTA is FTP so I have no idea what the benefit of region locking the software would be as no one buys it and Valve would likely actively encourage "trading it" if such a thing is even possible
TL;DR Nah pretty sure you're playing with who you always play with
Broder Salsa
Banned
All I know is that I bought a lot of cheap Indian and Mexican games on there.
If i didn't have to often suffer the bullshit 1:1 exchange, maybe i'd be more sympathetic toward buying exclusively in my region.
Cheesemeister
Member
So is cheap B/S/T Steam games dead?
They've been clogging up the thread, to be quite honest.
That's not why they are doing this, though.
They want to stop people abusing the cheaper Russian prices. That's why they changed gifting a few weeks ago too.
Basically, people abused the system, everyone gets penalized.