Ah, the cloud...

Big Brother strikes again...

Oh my boy! I was sure about Valve scoring new lows, somepoint down the drain! As i posted elsewhere in the past, this company, has the ULTIMATE potential to reach MINUS INFINITE! Lower than the abyss! Deeper than a black hole! I am so proud of the fatman! He is a real businessman, after all! Kicking everyone in the nuts and everyone buys there while praising him! Heck, he could even be the ideal politician!!! The vast majority would gladly vote for him!

This is the ultimate talent. Cutting off things from people, while said people are and become even BIGGER, fans! Aww, makes me want to eat a lot, too, from joy!

Did they really need to do that ? Because I can't imagine 'well intended' people not seeing the obvious downside.

So if I go abroad, I should set up a VPN at home to play my games. FU Steam... Thank god there is GOG.

Perhaps but it affects sites like Steam Trades where you got Russian and Brazilian traders trading cheap games for TF2 keys. I know the article mentions Skyrim but I still haven't seen a clear answer if it involves straight up purchases or gifting.

What if you buy a game from a more expensive country, but suddenly the exchange rate goes down and you game starts being cheaper than in your own country? will you still be able to play or will it remain locked until the rate goes up again?

That might be funny, reading the Financial Times every morning to see if you can play your Skyrim today or not. Sort of checking the weather forecast before a game of golf.

I think it's only affecting lower cost regions. If you buy a game from say the US, you can play it anywhere.

It's that or drop the beneficial part of regional pricing (low prices for low income countries). At the moment those games are/were being bought in cheap countries and then sold in bulk through places like G2A and Kinguin to the rest of the world with G2A/Kinguin and the users selling them taking a sizeable profit.

Ah the wonders of the DRM rental-service walled-garden platform.

DRM shifts all the control from the end-users to the company. That is the true nature of DRM. That loss of control on the part of the consumers is what enables greedy companies to do whatever the hell they want, including adding a new restriction on which countries you can "play" your game from (including games that you already previously purchased and played without the restrictions).

www.defectivebydesign.org

If we want to avoid a future in which our devices serve as an apparatus to monitor and control our interaction with digital media, we must fight to retain control of our media and software.

LMAO!

I don't disagree that key-resellers are a thorn in their business that has to be dealt with, but this measure (as any DRM in my opinion) does more harm to the customer than to the middle-man. Although I agree that using the services of third party key resellers isn't an innocent thing to do (people should expect 'a catch' when buying things cheaper than they should).
Point is, what doesn't sit well with me is that in the end, to protect its interests, they just made up a system that won't protect their customers in any way (and they clearly won't give extra support as said in the article) and because they're a quasi-monopoly, they kind of make the rules.

My friend from Germany sent me money for purchase of cheaper games. And I simply bought to it games and sent a gift. Why no? After all there is a system of departure of gifts......
After new updatings, games which he bought for the last 2 months.... aren't started.
He wrote about it to a support service and its profile banned completely.
I agree that it isn't correct to resell games, but in this case he is my real friend and I simply sent it games without any payment.

Unfortunately, Steam hate VPNs (I already heard in the news that people were banned by using this workaround). Although GOG does not recommend bypassing regional pricing, I think they are keeping a blind eye on this.