How does region lock work

Or am I misreading this. I don't know how to clarify it even further. I'm telling you that this restriction explicitly ALLOW to activate, and you ask if it prevents someone from activating It's the opposite! If you are form US - you won't be able to activate a key like that, so there is no chance you will get the key from the store, unless you used some store that is local to this list of countries.

And even in this case - you will be the one unable to activate it, not people from those countrues. When giveaway creator uses incorrect regional settings it prevents people from entering, even while they would have been able to activate the key if they could enter and win.

That's why I didn't put this information in. Thanks for your link, I'll add information on how to find SubID in steam console to guide.

I received a code from a game in a raffle, but by stating that it has regional restrictions, is there any way to claim it? I can't contact the owner of the draw. What should I do? There is more of an issue in your case - why was there a 6 week wait before you mentioned an issue with the key?

If you can't activate a game because of region lock, and can't contact giveaway creator - just mark it as "not received" and forget about it.

There are ways to activate region-locked game, but this is against Steam ToS and thus risky and may get you banned, so I strongly don't recommend trying to do this. Should i use hoxx-vpn-proxy and try to activate it by changing my country? Thank you. I feel just a little stupid in face of the unfair trade.

Do I have a way to give the key here at SG without knowing the region lock? On other terms can I know with the key which region lock it is?

Then just set region settings appropriately when you will be creating giveaway. Hey Ryzhehvost. Was looking at giving away Borderlands 3, for example , but it seems the steamlocked site hasn't been updated in a while.

Can you explain to me how I can find out other than trusting the site I'm buying it from to be correct? Well, if steamlocked does not show information I'm disappointed about it , we can always check on steamdb. I'll try to explain what to do for this. In this case package name are kinda helpful already to get an idea of what restrictions exist, but it may not be the same for other games, and it may be a bit misleading, so better to check all package pages. Let's say we need regular Borderlans 3, then we need to check those pages we need the "Information" tab there :.

Please note, on package pages steamdb uses the term "purchased" instead or "redeemed". It's kinda confusing. So, let's see, you are buying from New Zealand, so it's clearly not Europe package, since it explicitly says it can't be purchased from NZ. So, good news, you will receive a world-wide version or or , worst case scenario not redeemable in Venezuela why 2K, why?! So, in this case, just to be safe, I would exclude VE from your giveaway and keep the rest.

Side note: Europe package does not have a run restriction, so if user from one of those countries manages to redeem it somehow with VPN, or something , they will be able to play it.

Other packages has a run restrictions too, so even if they manage to redeem it, they won't be able to play anyway. But I would not count on it if I were making giveaways from Europe, since bypassing redeem lock is much harder nowadays, it requires more than just VPN. How is that possible? It's first ever game i got with this kind of region lock, that's not mention on steamdb and package shows as global. I recently got this - what can I do with it?

It seems it cannot be used in ANY country my account is Ukraine since the changes in Autumn last year. That's strange, I've never seen anything like that. Sounds like another glitch of steam. So, a disc from one region will not play in a PS4 from another region. PS4 is not region-locked. However, you can also change your PSN region. To easily change your PSN region, you will have to set up a new account.

During set up, you can change choose the region country you want, even if you are not physically there. Yet, if you want the PS4 console to believe that you are in a certain physical location, you will have to use a VPN. Being able to choose certain locations comes with the benefits of more content availability too. For example, US residents or those who pick the US region will have access to more content compared to other regions. On the other hand, other regions offer much lower rates compared to the higher US dollar rate in the US region.

Furthermore, changing your PS4 region also comes with its limitation. For example, not all game discs are region-locked. You simply have to make sure your account supports them. If you choose to use other regions than the one you are physically in, this comes with a limitation too.

For a US-based account, for example, you will need to purchase any online content using US funds. Additionally, if you use your PS4 for streaming services, you may experience restrictions when using a VPN. Most DVD and Blu-ray players also limited by region-locking. The decision to not region-lock the Nintendo Switch is an about-face for the game maker.

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