If you have a gift that's region locked, please share a screenshot of the countries it's restricted in. I'd like to make a simple list of the different regions in case we add a feature to allow them in the future. Thanks!

Listed so far...

  1. Turkey
  2. Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Bahamas, Belize, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Paraguay, Suriname, El Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela
  3. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan
  4. Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand
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Turkey.

i hope a screenshot is not really necessary for just one country.

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Hacı ben şimdi yurtdışına çıksam bölgeler kilitlenmeden önce aldığım oyunları oynayabilirim değil mi, sadece kilitli oyunları oynayamıyorum?

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tam emin olamadım ama anladığım kadarıyla aralık 2014'ten itibaren alınan oyunlar etkilenmiş durumda. aralık 2014'ten öncesi birkaç istisna dışında temiz. o da valve'la alakalı değil, geliştirici ve yayımcı ile alakalı.

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This.

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this ^

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What he said ^

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+1

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So unfair :(

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traderegions

csa/countries/ar: 1
csa/countries/bo: 1
csa/countries/br: 1
csa/countries/bs: 1
csa/countries/bz: 1
csa/countries/cl: 1
csa/countries/co: 1
csa/countries/cr: 1
csa/countries/ec: 1
csa/countries/gt: 1
csa/countries/gy: 1
csa/countries/hn: 1
csa/countries/mx: 1
csa/countries/ni: 1
csa/countries/pa: 1
csa/countries/pe: 1
csa/countries/py: 1
csa/countries/sr: 1
csa/countries/sv: 1
csa/countries/uy: 1
csa/countries/ve: 1

rcis/countries/am: 1
rcis/countries/az: 1
rcis/countries/by: 1
rcis/countries/ge: 1
rcis/countries/kg: 1
rcis/countries/kz: 1
rcis/countries/md: 1
rcis/countries/ru: 1
rcis/countries/tj: 1
rcis/countries/tm: 1
rcis/countries/ua: 1
rcis/countries/uz: 1

sea/countries/id: 1
sea/countries/my: 1
sea/countries/ph: 1
sea/countries/sg: 1
sea/countries/th: 1

try/countries/tr: 1

from steam config. (https://steamdb.info/app/7/)

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+1 for being systematic ;)

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I don't see my country in that list ._.

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This is a restricted gift which can only be redeemed in these countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand

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Yep, you've already listed the 4 major restricted regions.

Some more rare cases:

  • Some of the Amazon keys were region locked to North America only.
  • There are cases when certain games can not be activated in certain countries (Germany, for instance).
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Keys from Gamestop can be locked to NA as well. Japan is in the same boat as Germany in some cases. Ugh, trying to remember all these locks is hard XD.

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"certain countries" ...:eyeroll: (eye roll is for Valve, not you Sleepy -- didn't notice you used the same phrase for a different meaning)

and a not Germany example

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this is not an restriktion thats an region lock. it's not exclusiv for germany it's excluded from germany Oo

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I don't have any gift, but just to register, I tried to buy a new gift, and I got the exact restrictions as in number 2 in your list. But I guess everybody else has provided solution for most of the cases, if not all.

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I had a "Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Bahamas, Belize, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Paraguay, Suriname, El Salvador, Uruguay or Venezuela.", but activated it a few days ago so can't take a screenshot. Would love to see this feature implemented.

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i don't have screenshot for it but some of square enix games are (ru/cis/in) region blocked russia/cis/India.

gta 5 has a India only region lock i believe

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+1 same here bro

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It's probably the only game with a separate price for India :|

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I think i recall seeing something bout Poland ?
Correct me if im wrong tho ... ill check out my friends inventories and see if i can confirm that

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Nope.

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okay my bad sorry :D

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I had and still have 1 key for The game of thrones Genesis that is locked only for Poland/ Czech republic

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There are few games that are treated differently, mostly games published by Bethesda (for example Rage wasn't even listed in polish steam store for like 2 years and Dishonored have this notification on polish store page: "Notice: This game is not giftable in your territory."), however Skyrim seems to be free of region locks. But for most part, region locks for Poland are applied only for retail versions and description for those usually says that these can be activated in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. Correct me if I am wrong.

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Finally! I can feel where this is going! :)

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Regional restrictions - Latin America

http://i.imgur.com/pc7CSZn.jpg?1

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FINAL FANTASY® XIII-2

This is a restricted gift which can only be played in these countries: Japan, Mongolia, Korea, Republic of, Taiwan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, Hong Kong, Viet Nam, Philippines, Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Cambodia, Macau

This is a restricted gift which can only be redeemed in these countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand

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Would love that ff13 if you decided to gave it away.

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Do I sense a hint of begging..

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nah..it's against the rules I think...I just skimmed the FAQ

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Hundreds of gifts and dota items: http://steamcommunity.com/id/zeroxxx/inventory/

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Like zeroxxx posted, there are FFXIII and XIII-2 copies that have Asia(his first set) and NE(North America & Europe) restrictions. Haven't seen that with other games.

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Finally! Our voices are heard! :D

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It's not like they weren't being heard before now.... P

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Good that the countries listed in SEA is already here. Crossing my fingers for this feature to be added! ^^

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Do keys count? I have a key from amazon.com that's supposedly locked to the americas, i.e. north, central, and south america.

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Restricted regions are: Russia/CIS, Brazil/South America/Mexico, SEA, Turkey. So you have all of them in the first post.

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Well, I have a question. I'm from Estonia (Near Russia) and we can activate some RU/CIS games (Bethesda's games for example). Can I still enter those giveaways?

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Notice: Purchases made in Russia are only playable in Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia

Some games, i think.

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Yep. I'd still like to enter them :)

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You are allowed to enter them, but people aren't currently allowed to give them away here.

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Yet consistently doing it for example in the steam group of Russia.

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That's the same one I have.

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Sometimes I wonder why they even support these combinations

  • This is a restricted gift which can only be played in these countries: Japan, Mongolia, Korea, Republic of, Taiwan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, Hong Kong, Viet Nam, Philippines, Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Cambodia, Macau
  • This is a restricted gift which can only be redeemed in these countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand

What's the reasoning behind it? In case you travel to some of the countries where you can play but not redeem? :-P

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they put the world map in front of gaben and point the locked region. he closes his eyes and draws a larger circle around that region, saying "that's as far as those motherfathers can go. problem solved for the people going abroad.".

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Brilliant.

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Well, now latter restriction has runtime lock too, because sites/users were abusing gifts by activating via VPN. :P

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There are no Polish-locked gifts but there are Polish locked keys. They mainly come from CD Action Magazine.

Also there are cross-locks sometimes between Poland, Czech, Slovakia and Hungary.

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Keys have much larger variance than gifts on locks, as publisher can create keys limited to any countries instead of four regions that gifts have.

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well, I was asked by Sleepy to write it here so I did ;)

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I believe those four are all the regions implemented directly by Steam in the gift copies bought in the store. I think there aren't any more.

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