Activating russian game keys on steam

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Just been browsing through ebay and came across a few cheapish game serial codes. The auctions state that you need to set up a VPN and activate as though you're in Russia, then change back over and you've got the full game with no problems. The seller has a few hundred feedback at 100% as well, not someone who's just popped up.

Few questions:

1) Anyone else done this with success?
2) Is it illegal, something tells me it's less than legit?
3) If you do it and it works, can you get banned from Steam at a later date for doing so.

I'll be honest, seen a MW3 key for £15 and feel like playing the SP, not interested in the online side of it. However with a few hundred games already on my steam account, don't want to risk a ban.

I suppose I could open a second steam account but then if there are no problems, it's going to bug me having more than 1 steam account ;)
 
Valve has been known to remove purchases from accounts if they were other regions, mainly as Russia and such has lower prices due to the amount of priacy. Probably safer to use another account just in case.
 
I have activated and am playing russian version of IL2:CLOD - it was just a straight forward activation, I did not need to resort to VPN or other such tricks. Had it for a year as well- zero problems so far. Don't know how it is with other games though.
 
G-Man said:
Valve has been known to remove purchases from accounts if they were other regions, mainly as Russia and such has lower prices due to the amount of priacy. Probably safer to use another account just in case.
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Only for MW games. There are no other reports. Even then only the single games have been removed.
 
I've had no problems on Steam bar Skyrim but have had problems on Origin with BF3. It's only a matter of time before they really clamp down. I guess you need to figure whether they will take such actions retrospectively - I am guessing in the main they won't.
 
I'm not dying to play MW3 so i'll just wait until it's in an official steam sale, it's still stupid price at the moment. The key I saw on ebay was £15 which is the only reason I considered it.
 
SixTwoSix said:
I'm not dying to play MW3 so i'll just wait until it's in an official steam sale, it's still stupid price at the moment. The key I saw on ebay was £15 which is the only reason I considered it.
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I still need to play MW 2, but don't think I have seen it for much less than £15 in a steam sale. Will wait until it is £10 or less.
 
It seems like its not enforced much so you will probably be ok, just be prepared that 'maybe' one day it will disappear from your account as Valve removed it. But, I reckon you'd be fine.
 
SixTwoSix said:
Just been browsing through ebay and came across a few cheapish game serial codes. The auctions state that you need to set up a VPN and activate as though you're in Russia, then change back over and you've got the full game with no problems. The seller has a few hundred feedback at 100% as well, not someone who's just popped up.

Few questions:

1) Anyone else done this with success?
2) Is it illegal, something tells me it's less than legit?
3) If you do it and it works, can you get banned from Steam at a later date for doing so.

I'll be honest, seen a MW3 key for £15 and feel like playing the SP, not interested in the online side of it. However with a few hundred games already on my steam account, don't want to risk a ban.

I suppose I could open a second steam account but then if there are no problems, it's going to bug me having more than 1 steam account ;)
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Dunno about getting banned but it worked withj MW3 for me, picked up the game for less than half price and downloaded it through steam.
 
By the time valve got round to taking action (if they even do).
You will have long finished the single player.
You could probably have finished it in the time it took you to type the OP.
 
I've activated my Russian copy of MW3 on steam using a VPN. Never had any problems. Although I did create a new account just in case my main steam account got banned.
 
I don't even bother with the whole Russian thing, But I do know quite af ew people that do. I tend to buy my CD keys from another site and you save anywhere from 10-50% on purchases, even more in some cases.
 
Lots of russian games with no problems here at all.

Have been doing it for a long time , there was an episode a while back that stung a lot of CD key sellers and customers where they were getting Asian steam keys and a lot of these got removed from people's accounts as they were pirated/stolen keys.

As far as im aware ( i could be wrong ) they have never taken action against "legit" russian keys at all so far.
 
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