I’m sure of what valve has or will do when it comes to keys.

However a vpn will not work as store region is no longer based on ip location.

Yeah this I'd really like if some UK people could tell us, if you buy a key for an age restricted game, can you redeem and play it?

If you purchase a game using a VPN Steam potentially flags it as being bought in another "region"/ by another currency, and then you get in trouble due to it being a terms of service violation.

Originally posted by dgresevfan:

If you purchase a game using a VPN Steam potentially flags it as being bought in another "region"/ by another currency, and then you get in trouble due to it being a terms of service violation.

Not true, you can buy on VPN as long as you're not using it to change your country to one with cheaper prices. Tho again we're not talking about that because you can't even do that with just a VPN to bypass this. We're talking about buying a CD key from a third party store and redeeming it on Steam.

I believe that you go straight to British hell. Where the tea is made in a microwave, and it is only served full of ice cubes. You also must drink it with cookies, and you have to call them cookies.

All kidding aside you will probably have it in your library, but not be able to play it until you prove you are of age. Somebody yesterday said they'd gotten locked out of one of their games.

Originally posted by Dodece:

I believe that you go straight to British hell. Where the tea is made in a microwave, and it is only served full of ice cubes. You also must drink it with cookies, and you have to call them cookies.

All kidding aside you will probably have it in your library, but not be able to play it until you prove you are of age. Somebody yesterday said they'd gotten locked out of one of their games.

There should be lawsuits over this but I guess thats why the UK also dismissed Stop Killing Games, why should you own the things you buy, easier for the government to take it away this way.
All Ill say to the console manufacturers, if they drop the disc drive or mandate online DRM next gen they're incredibly stupid, I see a lot of PC gamers in countries like the UK/Australia/EU/etc in the future switching to only play future games buying discs with cash in retail on an offline console.

Originally posted by tyl0413:

Originally posted by Dodece:

I believe that you go straight to British hell. Where the tea is made in a microwave, and it is only served full of ice cubes. You also must drink it with cookies, and you have to call them cookies.

All kidding aside you will probably have it in your library, but not be able to play it until you prove you are of age. Somebody yesterday said they'd gotten locked out of one of their games.

There should be lawsuits over this but I guess thats why the UK also dismissed Stop Killing Games, why should you own the things you buy, easier for the government to take it away this way.
All Ill say to the console manufacturers, if they drop the disc drive or mandate online DRM next gen they're incredibly stupid, I see a lot of PC gamers in countries like the UK/Australia/EU/etc in the future switching to only play future games buying discs with cash in retail on an offline console.

Frankly if they wont stand up to Beijing. What makes you think they will to London. They are in it to turn a profit for investors. My advice move somewhere more liberal, but I imagine that's harder due to that Brexit thing. Don't be mad at them for going alone with what you all did to yourselves.

Originally posted by Dodece:

I believe that you go straight to British hell.

And when they arrive it strangely looks the same as when they left.

Purchasing games directly on Steam with a VPN has always resulted in punishment levied against your account. And while a VPN alone hasn't been able to alter your Steam region since before 2020, Valve might still remove your ability to purchase and register game keys permanently if they detect you attempting to use on during a purchase.

Originally posted by tyl0413:

Not true, you can buy on VPN as long as you're not using it to change your country to one with cheaper prices.

This is incorrect. If you attempt to make a purchase in any region other than your own, Valve will treat it as payment fraud and punish the account. Even when the price is higher than that of your own country.

Originally posted by bansama:

Purchasing games directly on Steam with a VPN has always resulted in punishment levied against your account. And while a VPN alone hasn't been able to alter your Steam region since before 2020, Valve might still remove your ability to purchase and register game keys permanently if they detect you attempting to use on during a purchase.

Originally posted by tyl0413:

Not true, you can buy on VPN as long as you're not using it to change your country to one with cheaper prices.

This is incorrect. If you attempt to make a purchase in any region other than your own, Valve will treat it as payment fraud and punish the account. Even when the price is higher than that of your own country.

Literally what I said, just being on a VPN, not using it to change region is completely fine. I do it all the time, I just have it connected system wide, I'm not using it to change region, I don't touch the country selector, I'm just not gonna turn it off every time before I buy something, it works just fine and theres no reason why it shouldn't.

Originally posted by tyl0413:

Originally posted by bansama:

Purchasing games directly on Steam with a VPN has always resulted in punishment levied against your account. And while a VPN alone hasn't been able to alter your Steam region since before 2020, Valve might still remove your ability to purchase and register game keys permanently if they detect you attempting to use on during a purchase.



This is incorrect. If you attempt to make a purchase in any region other than your own, Valve will treat it as payment fraud and punish the account. Even when the price is higher than that of your own country.

Literally what I said, just being on a VPN, not using it to change region is completely fine. I do it all the time, I just have it connected system wide, I'm not using it to change region, I don't touch the country selector, I'm just not gonna turn it off every time before I buy something, it works just fine and theres no reason why it shouldn't.

Now you've lost me completely. How do you benefit in the mentioned situation from using a VPN then not using it to switch location?

Originally posted by tyl0413:

Yeah this I'd really like if some UK people could tell us, if you buy a key for an age restricted game, can you redeem and play it?

If the key is not region restricted for your region then you can activate it without any problems.

Originally posted by dgresevfan:

Originally posted by tyl0413:

Literally what I said, just being on a VPN, not using it to change region is completely fine. I do it all the time, I just have it connected system wide, I'm not using it to change region, I don't touch the country selector, I'm just not gonna turn it off every time before I buy something, it works just fine and theres no reason why it shouldn't.

Now you've lost me completely. How do you benefit in the mentioned situation from using a VPN then not using it to switch location?

By not having to bother switching my system wide always on VPN off just to open Steam.
I don't like the misinformation being spread about "NO! Dont get a VPN for all of its advantages because having it connected will get you banned on Steam!" It wont.
In most cases there is no real reason to region hop on Steam anyways for now, not even to get cheaper prices, you can get CD keys way cheaper than any region on Steam, sometimes you can have region locked games gifted to you too, hopefully stuff like the OSA fails because that would give a reason to region switch tho its unreasonably hard on Steam so at that point id just drop Steam, GOG doesn't care in the slightest and VPN is enough to region change there just by connecting to a different server and you benefit from less restrictions, differing pricing, etc.