Region Restricted Giveaways

good call I received a CIS gift the owner didn't know
but I made a giveaway and gave it
but I wrote in the giveaway "it's CIS" unlike the owner

ززز

Thank you for an update!

thankyou SG ggwp

First of all, I'd like to say it's great to see that cg keeps updating SteamGifts with functionalities, thanks a lot for the effort!

Besides that, there is something that troubles me (as well as some other users as far as I can read) and that is the CV impact such a change has. So far we know that CV is calculated by the US Steam store price which could be considered unfair for those using the European store, but we got used to it eventually. Before the Euro-crisis we mostly had 20%-30% higher costs per game compared to US or 50%-80% higher costs compared to RU region, so most of us used to trade for cheaper copies from those regions. Members didn't mind on Russians (for example) getting more CV for lower actual price, since we kinda did it ourselves by trading. We all paid the same (more or less) for the same amount of CV earned, thus CV had a meaning.

After region restrictions were applied though, everyone had to gift region restricted games which meant greater costs for everyone, more even for Russians. So I can see why region restricted giveaways were needed. We can't keep using US store as a reference though since now different region members can pay way less for the same amount of CV, which feels unfair since there is no workaround this time.

I don't think we should remove the CV system entirely, but I do believe it should be adjusted, or even splitted like it was suggested before and illustrated here. Since you know the region of each giveaway now, you can either add the equivalent in points for that region, or use another "bucket" of CV for region restricted games. I would like to know in a glimpse if a level 7 user had mostly region restricted giveaways or ROW.

+3 gmt

Would you consider giving RoW gifters the ability to exclude people in region-locked countries from entering our created giveaways?

I want to give the EU2 people in particular more of a chance at winning as right now they're often in similar financial position to many of those in region-locked countries. The people in region-locked areas can enter for everything they can, thus giving them more competition for wins but they can't enter for the region-locked stuff. I see that as a disadvantage for those in the RoW.

It's not something I'd want to use all the time if the option was there as it would feel a bit discriminatory even if it could be argued that anyone making a region-locked GA is being discriminatory themselves. I also realise that allowing region-locked gifts was done to enable more people to gift, not to encourage people to exclude. Still, the ability to make my GA's for RoW people only should I choose to would balance things a little imo as this new system does sound a bit unequal.

I don't even know how much I like the idea myself because of the discriminatory aspect I mentioned, but the thought popped into my head so I'm typing it. :p

Can we have region restricted giveaway category?

i want changed my region,check my ticket pls

what if you travel a lot? and I do not mean for vacations or for a week or two

CG, you should have level based on ones region also. so, each ppl have two level. level based their region from their region-lock game and global level from their non-region-lock games.

Nice, thank You!

Yay, I was starting to feel bad of still entering GAs without being able to give back.

You can put a option to hide giveaways that are region locked, but we can choose a region to don't hide. Por example, I don't want to see giveaways that are region locked to Turkey, but I want to see giveaways that are region locked to South America.

As a german, I wish there was a function to join those giveaways anyway. Or is the usage of proxies still a no-go for sg?

Finally.

No

Thats good idea!

For a second i though i won something!

yes

THIS GOOD

+99999999999

ok, close this now.