Question about buying a gift for the region of the giveaway winner.

Maybe if the winner doesn't mind. Otherwise no.

Quote: "Am i allowed to buy the gift for the specific region of the winner?"

I think you have a very good justification and if noted in the giveaway it should be fine, but how are you actually going to buy the gift for another region? Using a VPN to do that is something that Steam frowns upon.

I think everything relevant has been said already. As long as you state it in the giveaway description there shouldn't be any problems. However, I would check with support first. It could extremely loosely be interpreted as a giveaway rule, which is no longer allowed.

Also, regarding the "Why I thought about giving the giveaway winner a copy for his region is because..." part, I would assume most people don't do that. So in that sense it's not perhaps terribly important to go through this. After all, most us aren't doing it.

This is interesting, however there are a few problems I can think of, so I would advise creating a region restricted giveaway if you want to give away a copy to a specific region. I understand this is not what you are asking, though, so I'll try to explain.

The main issue with this is that most (if not all) gifts are now both activation locked and play locked on the regions you mention. Note that I am talking about gifts, not purchases for your own account, those do not have a "play lock" (not sure how else to put it). This can cause an issue if the winner does not always live in the same region/plans to move/doesn't plan to move but might move eventually, since they will have the game activated on their account but if any of the previous situations occur they will not be able to play the game you sent them and were able to activate at the time. So, even if technically they did receive that gift in this hypothetical situation, they will end up unable to play it due to region restrictions.

This sounds like an awkward situation were a giveaway was not initially region restricted but ends up region restricted, since if the user had purchased the exact same title for themselves from the region they were in, even if it was the same region you got the copy you gave them from, they will be able to play it on another region. If they activated a gift from that region, they won't. Eventually, they might decide to contact Steam support to have the issue fixed or the game removed so they can get a new copy or whatever else you can do in a situation like that. Depending on the case, this might have implications on the giveaway that would have been avoided if it wasn't a locked copy. Honestly, I haven't come across a situation like that, especially now that we have a way to indicate locked copies.

That's why giveaways that have no indication of a restriction should be for non locked copies, even if the winner can activate a locked copy.