Activating it via VPN = High risk of ban.

Im adding you to discuss this.

|What region ? Do you have some trusted friend from this region ? Let him log onto ur steam acc. from there. Activate the game. voilà

what is or how it works VPN activation? You have to "hide" your IP to steam?

The gift in your inventory doesn't look locked; what's the message you get when trying to activate it?

Edit: I'm not good at steamdb, but I can't see that it's locked in any way...

"MY first SCAM" my first thought was that you scam someone :P

Don't be so sad, there are people who were scammed and left with nothing, you have the game, i suggest you to trade it for some other game (probably no one will trade it for the same game but without region lock), if not, give it away on gameminer or somewhere else (steamgifts not allow to give away region lock games) but trying to use VPN.. you really don't care about your 160 games? if yes then try, but be warned, if steam will find out, your account will be lost forever

It has the dreaded "AllowCrossRegionTradingAndGifting No" tag https://steamdb.info/sub/42480/. In most cases it should have a warning attached to the gift but I don't see it. I also don't see warnings on the store page about being region locked. It could be that the user was unaware about this. I would try to contact the trader and undo the trade.

Actually, if the game has some hidden flag that says no crossregion trading, you should ask Steam support to undo the trade or fix your game, since you had no chance knowing you couldn't play the game.

Man, just write a ticket to steam support, tell them you got gift but is region locked, maybe they will help you with it...

Wow that sucks, good luck man
Hope you can resolve this

Why even do region restrictions exist? And why some games are only avaible to buy at some regions? Isnt that retarded?

i was scammed by 4700 eur 2 weeks ago , so just telling you it could have been worse :)

My first scam

Take it up to Steam Support.. you had no way of knowing the gift was not redeemable since there's no info on it. That's a problem they should deal with, they can probably switch it to a copy you can redeem if you explain it to them nicely and insist that there was no way for you to know.

You can take it to Steam support with chatlogs, but the best they can do is trade ban or probate him.

As for you, why would you trust him if he says it's region locked? Just put your over the gift and read carefully, it'll tell you the region.

And don't VPN, Steam could ban you for that.

The gift copy in your inventory has no indication of a region lock, which is pretty common these days with the retroactive locks added by the publishers. I suggest contacting Steam support - tell them there was absolutely no way for you to know the gift was restricted, since there was no warning in the text description or the regional tags. Be patient and persistent - you'll most likely get a bunch of copy-paste responses first. Take some screenshots of your inventory and the game's description (like this) and attach them to the ticket.

Nice! I remember my first scam. I had just received some rather bad news about rent. My neighbor presented me with an opportunity to earn some cash, and trusted me with quite a bit of information. Silly old fool, gave me the opportunity to rob them blind and focus on important things like beer and lottery tickets. No, I don't want to talk about what happened under the bridge, or what may or may not have entered my mouth.

Hello there! Here's some background information:
All Steam games are tagged internally with the Store ID they were bought from. "Internally" means you can't see that in a clear way, but the information is stored in the gift properties. This applies as well to games bought with the well-known browser glitch.

As @KBoomDUMAL said, this game features the AllowCrossRegionTradingAndGifting = No tag / flag.
Unfortunately, this tag / flag does not work as expected so far. You should not be able to trade or gift this game in the first place, with people in a different store / region than this was bought from. But Steam does allow you to do so.
It's only during the time of activation, that Steam detects this game was bought from a store / region different than yours (through the gift properties) and refuses to add it to your account.
This does not apply to EU tiers so far. You can still trade / gift games from one EU-tier to another Eu-tier.

No other trader from the store / region this was bought from, or any other store / region than yours, can buy you a copy of this game so you can add it to your add account. Even if you accept a loss. You cannot have FM 2015 in your account that was bought from another store / region. Not with a legit way.

Allow me to suggest that:

• you trade this game for another game that has no such restrictions. Be patient and find a trader from that region that is willing to do so. I see no risk in doing this, besides the money loss,
• you take a closer look at SteamDB before your next trade,
• you trade with people with REALLY HIGH rep. Most of them know what they're doing and would not risk their rep and accounts over such a trade.

BTW this game is region-free as the territorycode = Territory Not Set (-1) flag suggests.
You just can't activate it, if bought from another store / region different than yours. And this is the case with many new games.

Fair trader would warn you about any kind of lock long before you even opened trade window.
This though doesn't mean you shouldn't check steamdb by yourself.

I'm guessing you don't realize that "MY first SCAM" means that you scammed someone.

you can post his / her steam profile here, so we can all report him/her account to be banned

I really think you are a noob.Never give first unless is a really high rep guy..If is a gift you are even more stupid because you can see this.