aniketdawn.89
Wise Old Owl
I don't want region lock! Hate it if say you were to travel and bang your games are gone. Makes you feel people who actually pay are the ones who suffer rather than the pirates.
007
Killing Machine
I am totally fine with region locks and trade locks with regional pricing. It's only the run lock (onlyallowrunincountries) that it shouldn't have. Just imagine Steam listing XCOM 2 for 999 and you see a 85% off on it the next summer sales.
aniketdawn.89
Wise Old Owl
Lol I wish they made their customers life that easy, they just don't want to trust their customers.I am totally fine with region locks and trade locks with regional pricing. It's only the run lock (onlyallowrunincountries) that it shouldn't have. Just imagine Steam listing XCOM 2 for 999 and you see a 85% off on it the next summer sales.
Currently region lock applies only to steamgifts and CD key activations only. If u buy the game directly from the store u will get a ROW version
aniketdawn.89
Wise Old Owl
We are not talking of currently. We are talking of after introduction of inr to steam.
Currently you pay US prices so there should be no region lock whatsoever for steam/IN. Yet there is. Sigh.
aniketdawn.89
Wise Old Owl
We are not talking of currently. We are talking of after introduction of inr to steam.
Currently you pay US prices so there should be no region lock whatsoever for steam/IN. Yet there is. Sigh.
I talked about the scenario in Russia,SEA and SA. Currently they are getting the ROW version same as we If they buy directly from steam. They only get region locked version If they get the game as steam gift or CD key activation.
aniketdawn.89
Wise Old Owl
Example scenario, I buy fallout 3 while in USA with my steam US account and then I come to india- fallout 3 stays active in my account?
Scenario 2,
I buy a game in steam/IN with steam IN account and then travel to another country where say that game is banned. So game becomes inactive in my account?
Nope the game will not get inactive. You can play anywhere in the world except if the game has specific only allow run in countries specified on the package you've bought (eg: Squareenix games run only in India,Russia and CIS countries even if u buy the game at US price on Steam)
aniketdawn.89
Wise Old Owl
Are you sure? I have heard of instances where they often get stripped down to the localized versions, and some get inactive.
Don't recall which games exactly but you can Google it. Some ppl faced this issue.
It's becoz before Steam implemented region locks a publisher manually need to implement region lock on their games. These games have problems. Newer games (ie, games released after December 2014) have no region locks becoz of the automatic region lock on steam gifts
No INR in Steam yet 
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aniketdawn.89
Wise Old Owl
INR is live baby!
RIP regional pricing though! Applies to only a few games. I guess it's decided by publishers. Check it out and post. I just saw FO4 price and metro redux bundle price. Base price for former is ₹4.2k and latter is ₹700. So clearly metro is regionally priced.
RIP regional pricing though! Applies to only a few games. I guess it's decided by publishers. Check it out and post. I just saw FO4 price and metro redux bundle price. Base price for former is ₹4.2k and latter is ₹700. So clearly metro is regionally priced.
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aniketdawn.89
Wise Old Owl
As I said, I only saw a few titles. Plus many titles don't have prices yet.hell no, most of the games have regional prices from what I can see. Dirt Rally is now like 13 USD and Anno 2205 is less than 30 and so on. At 75% discounted rate, the bundles look positively costly.