Could we *please* get an EU region (and possibly NA as well)?

Would that also include the UK? @OP

Idk why I expected Stalin or Hitler speech there lol
Sorry, it's just my bad sense of humour

Serj is a genius !

yea the world is not a fairy tale though ;)

Well, how about starting with the actual EU? Still more potential entries as the number of countries is multipled by over a dozen.

Afaik EU is a region in the region locking scheme of things, albeit not on Steam but on other keys (Call of Duty Infinite Warfare is the most prominent example) and about almost always the key resellers/redistributors do specify the EU regions to which it (the key) is accessible in.

lot of games ( even AAA like dying light ) have EU only region locks on cd keys, so we actually need it to giveaway EU only cd keys otherwise we end up keeping them.
also there is Saudi Arabia and UAE region that wasnt implemented on SG so far

Add them all. And more. Ideally, add a system which lets you choose all the countries the key is restricted to, either by exclusion or by inclusion.

The best would be a checkbox feature, yes, but I am not holding my breath something like that will ever be implemented.

NA does exist. A gift copy of Saints Row IV I'd received and redeemed in my account was locked to NA-ESD(ROW) and it was locked to NA, India, and a few other "ESD" regions. Taking the ESD aside, Valve has indeed set a NA region, just that it seems pretty uncommon as opposed to RU+CIS or SE Asia.

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What about magically appearing region locked gibs with ROW-keys...

I don't think so, Deep Silver bundled games doesn't worth the efffort, and others don't do EU only lock :D

Or Poland. Poland also comes with the added bonus of no worry about potentially blocked games, since Germany often has its special rules and locks.
But it is still one country, no matter which you pick. And the European Union alone has 27+1.

Yes, hence the warning on region locks all the time. Some are just locking out CIS, but the most often ones are NA only with EU+ROW as counterpart, or even more commonly: EU only, with NA+ROW as counterpart.

I like your idea, more often than not the supposed region lock for a key turns out to be complete BS anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ok.

'K.

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Ok.

For example: having a single border miles and miles long makes it more likely for said country to have weak spots in its defenses, with weak spots, terrorists may find and exploit it to get access into said country and have free access to wherever they want.

This is why London, Berlin and Paris all had terrorists which were executed on the ground using explosives / fire arms.

You mean like being born in those countries? Most of the people involved in the recent terror attacks in western Europe were citizens of those countries already.

Also, removing a country's borders also removes its culture as well which is a bad thing in terms of how a country fundamentally works.

Does it really? Large countries which incorporates people with different beliefs and from different cultures,, be it Russia, China, Brazil and so on, tends to differ a lot by region.

We're talking about giveaways here.

-_-

This, in contrast to the 9/11 attacks which had taken place in the air.

North America is bordered by a tiny little landline from Mexico and otherwise can be accessed either by going through the two largest bodies of water on Earth or the most hostile cold climate on the planet outside the Antarctica.
Europe can be accessed from Asia and Africa by walking over, or even rowing through the Mediterranean. Completely different situations. Not to mention that the Fortress Europe plan is one giant long border with water patrols.

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That would be good.

Welcome to populism, I guess. After living in it for six years, I am getting somewhat immune to it.

Welcome to the wonderland which never ceases to surprise you.

2K and Activision started locking codes for EU too.

Deep Silver, 2K and Activision is 3 pretty big publishers.

From smaller publishers Astragon and Focus Home Interactive does EU locks.

and then there's publishers that do it inconsistently like Codemasters or Milestone.

Then there's Konami, but they don't do games anymore so lol.

South Africa has a separate region, like India or the KSA+UAE one. The rest, to my knowledge, is in the standard US dollar ROW region. Maybe Egypt or some North African countries are exemptions, but I never heard about any regions there.