Making giveaways with region-locked games is forbidden, therefore he is the one who did the mistake and I don't think he should receive the full contribution amount for a game he did not giveaway.
Uh also...I might be able to tell you how to activate it nevertheless.
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maybe u mean bioshock Infinite?
as far as i know ,"bioshock" has no region-lock,in russia steam store it has the same id as the other world-wide versions (451)
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Nope, it's the original Bioshock. Listed as Bioshock RU.
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I got in touch with him and I'm in contact with Steamgifts support about it. Don't think there's much else that can be done besides them deleting the giveaway and suspending. I feel bad because it seems like it was an honest mistake (what reason would he have to give a legit, yet region-locked, game away if not for real?) but I don't know any way of rectifying it that doesn't involve him having to shell out for a full-priced copy of the game to send me and I don't think that's happening.
Anyway, thanks guys.
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Sorry, I've been trying to figure out the right course of action through the FAQs and whatnot, but it's a bit unclear and I thought I'd just ask people who know Steamgifts better.
I won a large giveaway for Bioshock today. I was pretty psyched, It was for more than 3,000 people, my first time with a win that large. But it was too good to be true... when the gift email came from Steam, it was all in Cyrillic. Puzzled, I went to check it out, and it turned out that the gifter had sent the Russian region-locked version of Bioshock, not the real thing. I messaged him on Steam and he apologized, but he doesn't have the real game as far as I can tell.
At this point, what do I do so that I'm square with Steamgifts? The gift is in my gifting inventory. I tried to send it back to the gifter, but he already owns Bioshock so Steam wouldn't let me send it. I can't install it because I don't live in the Russia region, and I know that Steamgifts doesn't want you trading away gifts you've won. So what am I supposed to do with the game? I'd like to trade it if possible to get SOMEthing, but don't want it to look like I'm being shady.
Secondly, what do I do insofar as reporting the giveaway, marking unreceived, etc? Technically I received a gift from this guy, but I can't play it because I don't live in his area. but it will appear in my inventory on Steam. I don't want it to look like i'm accepting a game but then marking unreceived at the same time...
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