There exactly in Asia? If in CIS then i think its fine.
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LOLWUT? Are any of the CIS countries part of Asia?
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Yes. (Edit: Possibly.)
"You agree that you will not use IP proxying or other methods to disguise the place of your residence, whether to circumvent geographical restrictions on game content, to purchase at pricing not applicable to your geography, or for any other purpose. If you do this, we may terminate your access to your Account." - Steam Subscriber Agreement
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His IP was Russian and apparently your cc was accepted as a valid payment option, so you should be safe. This could be considered "disguising your place of residence" though.
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I don't think that's normal. He actually gifted himself... I wonder why didn't he just tell his friend to buy the game as a gift and send it to him though...
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Btw you didn't break any law. Nobody is going to arrest you for that :)
If there's any violation, that is on Steam's TOS and nowhere else.
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Obviously, he logged on his account and used his VISA :)
Oh well... now I need some Vodka...
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So I am not allowed to visit my brother and log in to my steam on his PC (the only one in his house)? lol
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Yes, but if you log back in your own country a few minutes later you might have to explain to Valve how your teleporter works. They probably won't do anything aout that unless there's abuse though, like buying every one of your games from a different country than the one you're playing them in.
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I would agree with most of these other people.
The only completely safe way would be to have your friends account purchase the game (ideally with one of his credit cards, or some untraceable option or at least one that you never use on any other Steam accounts) and then gift it to your Steam account.
Particularly if you plan to do this for any more games.
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actually, there are people buying triple-A game in Vietnam thanks to the rise of the likes of Steam and Origin, but there is in no way that demographic big enough to say that "all Vietnamese gamers can buy game" or for Steam to consider regional price-adjustment.
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You don't need to bother with that. Use the Steam website and append ?cc=RU on the end of any url. I also live in asia and use ?cc=US
Steam tech support will tell you to do as much.
eg. store.steampowered.com/app/23600/?cc=RU
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That is what it is for. Tell Steam support you are living outside of your region, and that is what they tell you to do.
Message by Support Tech Jimmy on Thu, 9th May 2013 10:17 am
Hello <Me>,
Thank you for contacting Steam Support.
Our records indicate that your purchase was declined due to your current IP address differing from your billing information.
You will need to use the following link through a web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) to complete your transaction.
http://store.steampowered.com/?cc=US
Please bookmark this link for continued purchasing while you are out of the country where you currently reside.
Please let us know if you have any questions, or if you encounter any further difficulty.
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I am an American citizen that lives in China. I do not have citizenship here, my payment/billing account is in USA also. The OP may have a bit of a different case. He is trying to pay from a local account, not from Russia.
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Why not get your brother to buy the game, then gift it to you?
This method seems deeply unwise...
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Wait a second! Teamviewer is not a proxy, so the connection to his account is made from a computer in russia. Regarding what Valve knows there is no difference if he uses Teamviewer or is in russia at this machine himself. So, as long it's not illegal or against TOS to travel to other countries and use your account there he did nothing that can/should be punished.
If the account gets banned I would contact support and tell them you have family members in russia and you visit them every now and then and use your account there.
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The OP has posted on a publicly viewable forum that he effectively bypassed regional restrictions. That is enough for Valve to ban/suspend if it was brought to their knowledge and they deemed it appropriate.
As I noted before they will be able to see that his account was active in different regions and when,a nds that itself would give Valve reason to at the least lock the account whilst they confirmed it was the OP accessing the account.
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Since when a post in a public forum which can be made by anyone pretending to be the OP is a proof?
Or did you ever hear that Valve is hunting TOS violators on SG, twitter, facebook, whatever?
Valve is NOT... NSA :b
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I'm obviously aware of that, but still this is not any kind of a strong proof.
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In my country that is still called fraud, just a little one though. You don't need to do that at all, as Steam provides a great feature: gifting/trading purchased gifts. You can give the money to your brother (using Paypal for example, if available), your brother buys the game and then he gives it to you.
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You must buy games in store where you are living now. If you are located in Russia - you must buy games in Ru store. If not - you must not buy games there. Even if you constantly live in Russia but you travel overseas or have a business trip outside your country - you can't buy games in your native store. You can be banned for that.
To resume, don't use Team Viewer, just ask your brother to buy games as a gift and present it for you - that will be completely legal.
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You didn't cheat, you didn't break any law, but you violated this:
"You agree that you will not use IP proxying or other methods to disguise the place of your residence, whether to circumvent geographical restrictions on game content, to purchase at pricing not applicable to your geography, or for any other purpose. If you do this, we may terminate your access to your Account".
You may go on with your life now :)
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It does: "or other methods to disguise the place of your residence"
That's actually very easy to detect it. You're logged from a Russian IP address and the very next minute from another countrye's IP. Still that's not enough to prove anything, but it certainly looks suspicious :)
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That does sound like a disguise of residence to me, by using Teamviewer to achieve it. Anyway, it's a grey area and I he'll not get banned for that.
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Your best bet is to actually set up a different account to buy the games and then gift them to your main account.
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Hi everyone!
My brother is living in Russia.Im in Asia.
And i used Teamviewer 8 to remote his desktop to buy a game in Russia Steam Store with my VISA cc.
Did i break the law or get BAN from Steam because i used Teamviewer?
Thanks!
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