Max Payne 2 -- region locked?

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Anybody know if Max Payne 2 has any kind of region lock on it? I have a Steam key of the game from the Amazon US digital download store, and I wanted to give it to someone in Italy. I found out that the Italian Steam store only sells an Italian language version of the game -- no idea why or what's different, other than the language. What would happen if this person in Italy activates the key? Would it activate as the US/ROW version, the Italian language version, not activate at all, or activate and refuse to install (wasting the key)? Thanks in advance for any help!

11 years ago*

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WobIntosh

I guess he'll recive Max Payne 2, there should be an Option for switch languages. If you want to make it for sure, let him activate the Game using a US VPN (I know that'll works, I've done bevor, especially with cutted Games, I'm from Germany ;) )

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Ansatsunin

BAD ADVICE.

NEVER use a VPN to activate ANY keys or so. You can risk an account ban on Steam. And they don't only ban you immediately, they sometimes hand out delayed bans, too.

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ZeikJT

This, you can/will get banned for doing this kind of thing. It's against the TOS.

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jOinNt

I live in Italy too so if he activates the key it's gonna be a ROW version. (with italian languagge included)

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