Our intent was to allow gifting. Let me check with Valve about that...

I believe by default all new releases now have AllowCrossRegionTradingAndGifting set to no.

The developer/publisher has to manually enable it.

Publishers are no longer to manually change region settings - we have to make requests directly to Valve. That said, there seems to be a disconnect between the database reporting and what's actually happening - we tried gifting a key to someone in Japan a little earlier and it worked just fine.

Originally posted by Nyu Media:

Publishers are no longer to manually change region settings - we have to make requests directly to Valve. That said, there seems to be a disconnect between the database reporting and what's actually happening - we tried gifting a key to someone in Japan a little earlier and it worked just fine.

Maybe Steam key activations still work across regions for this title, but direct trading or gifting through Steam don't.

Originally posted by Ultrapwnd:

Originally posted by Nyu Media:

Publishers are no longer to manually change region settings - we have to make requests directly to Valve. That said, there seems to be a disconnect between the database reporting and what's actually happening - we tried gifting a key to someone in Japan a little earlier and it worked just fine.

Maybe Steam key activations still work across regions for this title, but direct trading or gifting through Steam don't.

That may be true, but it may also be that direct Steam gifts from the US/UK and other higher priced countries will work, while those from lower priced, such as Brazil, won't. It's good to hear that keys can be added without problem, but that only helps if the game is also sold as a Steam key elsewhere.

Originally posted by Nyu Media:

Publishers are no longer to manually change region settings - we have to make requests directly to Valve. That said, there seems to be a disconnect between the database reporting and what's actually happening - we tried gifting a key to someone in Japan a little earlier and it worked just fine.

As far as I know, AllowCrossRegionTradingAndGifting is only restricting Eastern Europe, South America and South-East Asia from gifting copies. Should be fine for every other region though.

Originally posted by Nyu Media:

Our intent was to allow gifting. Let me check with Valve about that...

Can't you just release the game to Japan's steam store?

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Originally posted by dirtywhirlwind:

As far as I know, AllowCrossRegionTradingAndGifting is only restricting Eastern Europe, South America and South-East Asia from gifting copies. Should be fine for every other region though.

And for quite obvious reasons. People abuse the system and there are a number of people who make a profit flipping games from a region where it's cheaper to a region where it's more expensive. Gifting is meant for just that, gifting. Not so that people can make a profit off of helping people to dodge their regional pricing. Those who aren't living in Eastern Europe, South America etc aren't part of those economies and thus aren't entitled to that pricing.

Frequently the people asking for that setting to be disabled are people who seek to profit from cross region selling.