What should I do? In the giveaway he didnt inform about restriction!
Thanks!

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Mark it as received?

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Yes, be a nice guy
No, he must send another copy without region restriction
I couldn't care less

Do not mark it as received or you will eventually be suspended for not activating a win. You could tell him it is region locked, and if it's a gift, return it to him.

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+1

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Can be a mistake. These days not all know what is region restricted or what not. I suggest you request him to send a RoW copy if possible and if not return it so he can request a new winner and can specify. Under any case return the gift if it is a gift or unmark Recieved option if you have marked it.

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The maker of the giveaway has 1 week to deliver the correct game. Until then don't activate it, don't gift it away - return the game to him/her and if you get a working copy, mark it received, if you won't, mark it not received at the end of the 1 week

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^ this

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+1

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Also you could try to communicate with him and if you're really nice he can make a support ticket to delete the giveaway with your consent.

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Actually they don't even need your consent. I won a giveaway last week and waited for the game, about 24 hours later I see that it's just gone from my Won list. I tracked it down and saw that apparently Support had deleted the giveaway for the giver for some reason that was not even stated.

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We need winner's consent to delete the giveaway in almost all cases. Unfortunately, I can't state the exceptions to this rule because it makes it too obvious how to manipulate the system.

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^^^ This is the appropriate response.

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Pack up your shit and move to that region.

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LoL :D

9 years ago
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This. It's free game, yaknow

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Just sent him the game back... Lets see how it goes. He now went offline -.-"

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kinda sucks. but mistakes can happen, let's wait

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6 ppl wants you to get suspended heh.

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22 now

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27... its sad how ppl prefer being "shortsighted good guy" instead doing whats right in long run

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I voted so for the lulz

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Giveaways are like donations. Gifts from Steam inventory are indicated with "region restrictions" but keys bought from online retail site may only indicate during the checkout.
Steamgifts are accessed by everyone and cross-purchase on online retailer is common. Certain games with region restrictions will be sold as region restriction according to their IP address.
There is no money or currency lose on your side. The gifter should not be held responsible as it's sort of a good will. It's just unfair for the gifter.
Just contact the user to re-gift to another winner, recreate giftaway with region restriction or you may just create a giftaway yourself with region restriction.

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He definitly should NOT create a giveaway for something he won. That's called regifting and it's against this sites rules and will get him suspended.

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I thought he meant that the raffler should create another GA with mentioning it's region locked.

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This site has rules, that every user should follow. It may be unfair, but if someone thinks so - then he should just leave the site.

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I had gift of Guild Collection, won on Steam Auction, it had any tags, but was region restricted, but I even didn't knew it was, no ANY marks

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Auction wins are silently restricted to the region the winner is from. The only way to find out if such game is restricted or not is to try and activate it on your own account, in which case Steam will display the list of valid countres.

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That was a steam gift, which clearly says: Restricted Region (Russian Countries or something)

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What I like about questions like this is you always have a couple of barely worded wrong answers, and then a more detailed correct, rather specific, correct answer. Like you knew the answer before asking =P

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more then likely a mistake, i didnt even know steam gifts could be region restricted

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