>steam quietly implements geofencing on first world countries

>>375918951
Go try to gift a game to australia.

Or the UK/europe.

>>375918601
I got no idea what you're talking about and don't care enough to gift a game to someone for it.

>>375918601
It's their store, they can do whatever the fuck they like.

It was being abused by key sellers and players to get cheaper games. Publishers were getting on steams back about it, so they dealt with it.

Thank you Totalbiscuit!

>>375918601
Yes. Most Americans are too smart to be using 4chan after 2012.

I tend to blame Russian for everything bad steam changes. Russians ruin everything.

as a Steam devloper, Im glad they did this

there's a lot of shady key / gift shit

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>>375919114
>>375919171
Why are American so quick to defend corporations who do not have the interests of the consumer in mind?

>>375919171
>too

>>375919307
You are happy I'll be pirating your game instead of gifting it because I can no longer send your game from the US to australia?

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>steam and publishers sell games cheap in poor nations because their cost of living is lower
>people in richer countries (and key resellers) buy games via people in those poor nations (gifting) to get cheap games
>steam stops it because you abused it
>"wtf steam this is bad!"

??? Fuck off, be glad you abused this shit for so long.

>>375919452
You're not dying fast enough you fat fuck.

>>375919452
>the US gifting to england is a rich/poor nation situation
Back to the Synagogue gaben

>>375919381
>I'll be pirating your game because I am too poor to afford it at retail value

>>375919605
I'm trying to send it to my poor friend in australia, and now I can't, so yeah it will be being pirated.

>>375919340
why are poor people so quick to defend scammers that hurt the industry?

>>375919720
>that hurt the industry?
The only thing hurting the industry are people who defend these corporations. Just look at how third parties have taken over with AAA shovelware.

as someone who lives both in the usa and in the third world depending on time of year this shit reeeEEAALLLY pisses me off.

>>375919649
send your poor friend money via paypal for food instead of games

>>375919008
I don't gift so I don't care.

>>375919452
The price differences are honestly negligible enough that restricting US/EU gifting is dumb.

But yes, poorfags and jews who abuse the system are to blame for this.

>>375918601
No, it confirms /v/ is mostly first worlders. I'm 1st world and don't give a fuck about gifting things to the 3rd world. So why would I be talking about this? It doesn't affect me at all

>>375920462
I literally tried gifting terraria from here to the states this morning and it didn't let me.

Same with my american friend trying to send it to the UK.

Shit's fucked.

>>375918601
No, it confirms that at least a decent amount of /v/ has at least enough money that they don't use shitty gifting exploits or shady key sites to buy their games. Only the poorest of poorfags are affected by this. If these changes affect how you buy games in any way, you're pathetic

>having friends in third world countries
I wouldn't notice

>>375920619
>>375920536
Idiot

>>375920536
Maybe just buy it normally instead of gifting it to yourself from another country? thx

>>375918601
>paying for games
>paying games for someone else

>>375920462
Shit man, you're dumb.

It doesn't affect 3rd world countries because 1) they already have the cheapest prices and 2) their games have been region restricted for a long time.

This means that as an yuropoor or australian, you can't usually receive gifts from murrikans.

>>375918601
They did?
Prices are the same in Mexico.

>>375920770
Mexico isn't a first world country.

>>375920689
how am I an idiot? explain how this system negatively affects me, as someone who lives and works in a 1st world country and buys all my games direct from the steam store instead of some shitter's paradise like g2a? From what I can see, it doesn't affect me at all

>>375918601
HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US

>>375920829
I, who live in a first world country wanted to buy my friend from another first world country a copy of a game, steam will no longer allow me to do this.

>>375920735
Doesn't it only affect first worlders who do weird gifty shit or use key reseller sites though. I make enough money that I've never had to do any of that, I just buy my games on steam

>>375920923
t. no friends outside his country
(or no friends at all)

>>375920958
lol why the fuck would I want to have friends outside my country

seems like wasted effort

>>375921176
How is the trailer park cletus?

>>375920536
Games sell for different amounts based on the country you live in and the strength of it's currenty / cost of living.

People were abusing this to get games cheaper, it was abused to badly that steam noticed and stopped it.

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>mfw all the games /v/ is paying 60 usd for is only 30 bucks because my country is poor as fuck

Good to have a high paying salary abroad

Will cdkeys com (site) still have functional keys or no??

>>375920923
I'm a yuropoor and a bunch of people gift me stuff because I'm an amazing person. Most of it has been from murrikans, but I guess that's no longer happening.

>>375920886
You could send them the amount you buy the game for via paypal, they can buy the game far cheaper on steam in their region and have $20 left over. Seems you hate your "friend"

>>375921431
>jump through a million hoops
Nope, if I'm going to that trouble we'll just pirate it

>>375921281
Problem is you have to live in a shithole.

>>375921431
Are you retarded?

You can gift games from a higher priced region to a lower priced region, but not the other way around, even if the difference is tiny.

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Oh no, now I won't be able to give Russian credit card fraudsters my credit card information so I can pay money to pirate games

>>375922075
>>375920886
Baka

This stifles consumer options and competition to supply at a cheaper rate. White frankly, it's bullshit.

Steam lost a customer.

>>375918601
>Why is nobody talking about this?
you're late i guess

>>375918601
>Why is nobody talking about this?
How did you miss like 3 threads in the last 7-10 hours?

>>375922315
hahah

>>375918601
>quietly implements
The fuck are you nigger talking about?

>Why is nobody talking about this?
Cuz literally no one but faggots that buy keys off hady as fuck key stores gives a shit about this change

>>375922640

To hell with you!

*shakes fist*

>>375922710
Go gift a game to Aus or the UK

>>375922774
Why would you give a gift to an aussie or a brit?

>>375922315
Haha disregard that, i suck cocks

I sure love not being able to ask my American friends to get me uncensored games any more.
Thank you, Steam.

>>375922710
>The fuck are you nigger talking about?
http://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1301948399254001159

Probably would have helped if OP had provided a link.