Simple. Find someone you can trust from USA and paypal them the money to buy the games for you as gift. Please note however that if the games are available earlier in their region, the gift will not be available until it unlocks for you region.
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As far as I know, tho I'm not an expert, is that Steam checks your IP when You play games.
For example:
If You live in Europe You obviously pay more for the games. 1 dollar = 1 euro here, not a cool thing.
If I somehow cheat and pay for something, for example Max Payne 3, 49 dollars instead of 49 euros and play it while being in EU Steam might deactivate game and/or ban account for messing up with buying prices.
Legal way to bypass this is to have family in USA who will buy games for You on their USA account, send it to You as a gift and You will send them money back via bank account.
Proxy thingy etc might not end well for your account as far as I'm aware.
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Unless you have some proof, you can't say that. What happens if you are on vacation and buy it, then come back home and get banned for playing it? Nope. I don't think it will matter if you do a few purchase, but don't let them see you keep changing IPs and buying games and then playing them from another IP.
One way is to make a fake steam account, use proxy all through the creation and use of the account. Buy games and gift it to your main. Gifts bypass all regional restrictions so you should be ok. Just don't log in to the other account without the proxy.
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Well, I am heading out for a holiday to US soon. Not sure how I will handle the summer sales should it fall in the week of my vacation. :(
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I have a couple games including MW3 as Russian versions while using an American IP. No problem for me anyway :p
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In the FAQ's it states:
"Overall, we're simply helping people find a way to share their extra copies, and SteamGifts is not setup to dodge country restrictions or pricing in anyway." and Do not submit CD-keys that require VPN activation or methods to bypass regional restrictions.
Not once does it say that it is against the TOS of SteamGifts.
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Close this thread. It isn't allowed talking about ways to bypass regional restrictions.
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Buddy, I am not on Steam forum. I am on SteamGifts forum. I am not violating THIS SITE's rules at all!
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You do. Don't look for loopholes. Previous similar threads got closed by a mod. If it's against the rules of Steam, it's against SteamGifts rules as well.
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You have the power of the Report button. Use it if it hurts you too much...
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Use VPN. I use this https://www.privatetunnel.com/index.php to buy games if price difference is too much. Or find someone that will gift games to you from USA.
Never had a single problem like steam removing or locking me out of the game because of my ip.I bought Section 8 Prejudice , Batman Arkham City ,Dead Space 1-2 and Might % magic 6.No problems with any of them.
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lol, Your comment challenges the above main comment by zell963...
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You can do it with a free account from that website.
There is a few rules to this.
1- You cant use paypal
2- You have to use credit card or steam wallet.Steam wallet makes it a lot easier.Just add how much you want from your normal region.
3- Use a USA adress when it asks.
Thats pretty much it.I also would suggest you to use your web browser instead of the steam client when doing VPN.Steam client sometimes doesnt change its region when you relog.
Also dont worry about account getting locked.I have been doing this for over 2 years with a lot of different games for my self of my friends.The most problematic thing is finding a decent and working free VPN that you can use.
Edit : Dont buy from CIS countries.They are a hell lot cheaper but most of those games require you to have CIS ip when launching and playing the game and they are most of the time russian only.
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Whoops, my bad. Just realised that you are in Australia. Ummm.... browse the US steam store to compare prices.
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I am from Canada, and I am currently living in Europe for the next year. For the past few months I have been using this link:
http://store.steampowered.com/?cc=ca
But I also have a Canadian address and Canadian Mastercard/paypal
You can also use:
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I don't trust Ukrainian or Russian VPN's. Have had a bad experience in the past.
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I'm from Aus and I've tried using a VPN. It works for most people, but it depends on your payment method. It won't work for PayPal as steam checks the country on your paypal account (unless, of course, you make a US paypal account). It didn't work for my commonwealth debit card either. If it doesn't work for your card, you could try a prepaid visa card.
Also have a read of the last page of this thread: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1887436&p=69
EDIT: Just thought of something, maybe you could add money to your steam wallet from Aus, and then use it on the US steam store. This would only work on stores that use the same currency
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Yep... already been though that thread. BTW, is your account locked?
Any idea if NAB Debit will work?
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I made a new account to try it, nothing happened to it but i wasn't able to purchase anything. I was trying on the russian store.
No idea about NAB debit. :(
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that's not allowed to put money on another courency and use it on another store i had ticket about it :) here is it
1 Message by you on Thu, 3rd May 2012 7:26 am
can i have USD and RUR in steam wallet. if i add USD and then go russia will i have USD in my steam wallet or RUR and then if i add RUR will i have both of them like RUR currency and USD currency.
2 Message by Support Tech Toby on Fri, 4th May 2012 9:01 am
Hello Lasha,
Thank you for contacting Steam Support.
This behavior is not supported.
Please follow the link below for information:
Title: Steam Wallet
Link: http://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1122-RTSC-0478
If you have any further questions, please let us know.
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It doesnt work like that.My store is tr which is turkey.Its uses usd when selling but there are restricted or expansive games and if i want to buy them i put some money into steam wallet , use VPN and use web browser to buy games from US store.Steam wallet shows exact money i put in on my region
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there is option to buy from ru or most (CIS countries=ukraine prices) steam store u just need to have webmoney, unlocked account(u can ask steam support to unlock account. like reason u need to move another country for some time do this with newly created fake acc to prevent consequences if there is one because i purchased from ru steam store from Georgia about 3 months ago here the proof they didnt ban my account hadn't any issues from steam ) if do this just go to store.steampowered.com/?cc=ru that's it add to cart item and purchase make purchase option webmoney :) it's easy as hell :) and there here is support ticket message:
1 Message by you on Tue, 21st Feb 2012 2:51 am
i purchased from russian steam store without using any programs like VPN, i just checked that i'm from russia i used webmoney purchase. because i had money in webmoney and for me it's hard to get money to another account from webmoney. will i get banned for it?
2 Message by Support Tech Scott on Wed, 22nd Feb 2012 11:06 am
Hello Lasha,
Thank you for contacting Steam Support.
In order to prevent any issues with your account in the future, you will need to keep purchasing from the Georgian store.
If you have any further questions, please let us know - we will be happy to assist you.
P.S. i hope i wont get banned for this on steamgifts :D i didn't used VPN
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I hope that in this thread we can discuss how to buy games from international steam stores to avoid regional pricing. It will certainly be helpful for me and anyone else who has never taken this path before.
I am currently in Australia and normally use Paypal for transactions. What are the ways of bypassing the restriction?
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