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darkhosis

Seems to just be:

None
China
Hong Kong + Taiwan
India
Poland
RU + CIS (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
SE Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam)
South America (Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela)
Turkey

..... I have quite a few keys that are only region locked for EU1+EU2. Well, just about every Deep Silver game that I bought off a US retailer.

Dead Island Franchise Pack, Risen Franchise Pack, Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition, Emergency 2016, etc.

Something like: https://steamdb.info/sub/81382/

No way to list these?

9 years ago

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talgaby

Yeah, a Europe region lock would be nice too…

9 years ago
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666Ady666

or ROW restriction

9 years ago
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darkhosis

Isn't that how things are already? It lets you select the region, so then it's 'restricted' to that region, so 'ROW' is restricted.

What would be nice would be a method to select all the available regions & also possibly include the single country exclusions that occur every now and then (Germany being the most common, probably). Then I could select every region except Europe for these Deep Silver NA keys.

I noticed Mexico is included in the SA region lock, but seems like vast majority of those games restrict Mexico.

9 years ago
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666Ady666

I want make ROW giveaways accessible only for ROW countries without hiding links in forum. My public giveaways mostly won people from restricted regions, so i would like to give better chance to ROW guys, but i am too lazy for creating long whitelist or forum giveaways.

9 years ago
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talgaby

Based on the region stats, almost half of the user base is from restricted regions, so the chances that you end up with a non-ROW winner, especially for public GAs, are huge.

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