You will be in breach of the Steam subscriber agreement. So it's not allowed according to steam, I don't know how safe or un safe it is though.
There's also a chance that the game will only run with a continuous VPN active. Otherwise the game will lock if you're outside the required country.
This is true for Skyrim.
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I think that you could do it.
BUT! What I would definitely not do is use VPN to buy games for cheaper price. That will most probably get you banned.
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Just wait two days or whatever, its not the end of the world as we know it
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Its just few days, man :/
Go outside, socialise with people, try some drugs
THE WORLD AWAITS YOU!
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Then boycott the game due to it's stupid restrictions.
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Friends of me have done this since the beginning of mankind and they are still here with no single word from Valve. All you have to do is start it from the folder to evade the auto-locking mechanism. If a patch is released after you unlocked it it will automatically be locked again (pre-load stage because you load encrypted data). I dont know of ANYONE that was banned for this (trust me I searched for months every time I was about to unlock a game early and not a single ban/topic was found) but I DONT KNOW if it changed with the latest SSA update because they apparently added something to the proxy/VPN usage part (too lazy to read).
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Dont't find it atm, but there's a part that forbids the usage of proxies/VPN to circumvent locale restrictions
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its in the EULA and somebody linked it
"You agree that you will not use IP proxying or other methods to disguise the place of your residence, whether to circumvent geographical restrictions on game content, to purchase at pricing not applicable to your geography, or for any other purpose. If you do this, we may terminate your access to your Account."
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Give 0 fucks about the EULA and ToS, use VPN, never get caught, play the game on actual release date instead of a week after and have fun.
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I've contacted Steam Support regarding usage of VPN....they only reply "Yes, you are allowed to use VPN to play your games".
VPN is not fully restricted with Steam, you just must not use it to buy games in regional price or bypassing regional restriction. As for activating games, I just want to play safe. I will turn off my VPN to activate games. Better safe than sorry.
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