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Moodyamor

if someone Have Region locked Gift & iam not from the selected country
Soo if he not traded But GIFTED it to me can i but the games in my library normally ??

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Kougar7

You can still buy the game normally, the gift simply sits in your inventory unused.

You can also GIFT the game back to the giver... if you mark the game as received and have not activated the game on your account you will unfortunately get suspended.

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dingdongcat

How do you even track that.

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TinyPurple

You can see the steam account. and check it should be public if you are on this site
and SG syncs it...

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zeroxxx

The 'win' list will contain your name. They just need to compare your library with the win list.

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dingdongcat

Let's say you had another key for the game and won the gift, and you then redeem the key and retrade the gift?

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tevemadar

That would work. However it is a bit analogous to trading a region-free key/gift for a region-locked one, which is not a best trade (keeping in mind that both are for the same game)

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dingdongcat

It would favor in obtaining a game, using your own kept key then putting the obtained game back on steamgifts (gift form) to obtain the points from it.

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tevemadar

It is still going to be a locked gift, and a general user can and will reject it and mark as not received. As of now, SG is meant for non-locked gifts, and the only, already a bit shady, workaround is to gift inside region-specific groups.

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Kougar7

Region-locked giveaways are against the rules. The person receiving the locked gift is guaranteed to get suspended if they accept the gift, mark it received, but don't activate it on their account. So most users will mark the gift as not-received.

Region-locked games are practically worthless, so there's little point in buying the unlocked game and keeping the region-locked copy for trade. Personally I'd rather spend my SG points on other games rather than waste them on a region-locked giveaway even if I had a high chance of winning.

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4eRsi

Actually creating a giveaway with a region locked gift is against the rules:
http://www.steamgifts.com/about/guidelines

"Gifts should be region free, and available to all users."

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eeev

But it says "should", not "have to be". Are the rules giving a bit of room for interpretation here?

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Luxy

In theory you are correct to assume that because of the wording, in practice... No. A lot of people thought that and got suspended... Feel free to disregard the "should" and read "must" or "have to be" instead of it xD

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eeev

There's a site on here that lists all possible suspension causes and their duration. I'm trying to find it but run out of ideas where to look. Do you know by any chance where it is?

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Luxy

I tried searching for it because I too remember there being a list but no luck. I know it was somewhere that really made sense. Maybe they removed it?

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eeev

Same happens to me everytime I want to check my white-/blacklist...

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Luxy

Oh, that I know how to find. feeling smart xD
You click the bar where your points and level progress are shown and then look to the left

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eeev

I'm pretty sure next time I'm looking for it I'll click everything else again before remembering that, but thank you :)

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Ronix

Here

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eeev

Thank you! Would you mind pointing out where to find it next time I'm looking for it?

EDIT: And as I look through it I notice there is no suspension for giving away a region locked gift. So is it allowed to do that?

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Ronix

Lol, you could bookmark it :)
By the way, it's at bottom of every page on sg.

Edit:
So is it allowed to do that?
Nope. All giveaways should be for Steam redeemable gifts or Steam redeemable keys.
If a user marks a giveaway as "received" and he didn't activate the game (because he can't for regionally restriction), he'll get a suspension.
The giveaway creator most likely will require the deletion of the giveaway and he'll lose a slot.

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eeev

Thanks, I actually bookmarked it straight away :)

I notice a lot of giveaways recently where the gifter clearly states in the giveaway description that the gift is region restricted. What about those?

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Ronix

I don't have a statistic, but there're a lot of tickets for re-roll request of region restricted gifts and they all end up with a removal of the giveaway or a "not received" feedback.

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eeev

I see, thank you Ronix.

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TempeteJoachim
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So for region-locked giveaways, the giveaway creator doesn't risk suspension, just losing a slot ?

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Ronix

Yes, but multiple infractions may lead to a suspension.

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Luxy

Not all suspension durations are listed here. They have their reasons ;)
Luckily, that's why there are guidelines in place so you know you'll get punished if you bleep up xD

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adam1224

http://www.steamgifts.com/roles/guest :P
At the very bottom of the page, titled as roles :)

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eeev

Thanks adam, I have it bookmarked now ;)

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onk

Yes its true. And there should be room, cause not all games are available in all countries for all users, so a hard restriction with the point "available to all users" would not be the best solution...on the other hand there should be a more spefic rule that no gifts are allowed that are only available to spezific regions.

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faboitas

someday someone will create a group for each region locks with special rules like "only people able to redeem games from this region lock can join" and "if the winner don't activate the won gift or is not able to activate it this will result in a group ban", probably there's something like that already but no "official" groups as far as i know :V
i'm not sure if group rules could avoid bans to the giveaways creators but it would be a solution and of course there would be people exploiting this for cv

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onk

I wrote a ticket many month ago suggesting offical regional sg-groups

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