New, Harsher Steam Region Locking Discovered

That's not piracy though really, and stolen from where? The article is about steam gifts. Keys don't come into it as they're games bought through Steam.
 
When you buy games on cdkey websites a lot of them Gift you the key/game via steam rather than giving you a key to actually activate yourself.

I have no idea where they are stolen from, A hijacked shipment of games bound for a superstore perhaps? Ubisoft went on a mad once recently and deactivated thousands of copies of FC4 that were bought from cdkey sites because they said the keys were stolen or acquired illegally before being sold on.
 
As much to do with money as it has with piracy (in the form of comprimised license batches), the latter just makes for a better arguement

We must surely all have encountered someone that thought they were clever picking up that OS for a bargain 20 quid just to find a few months later their license was pulled :P
 
hairyfeet said:
As much to do with money as it has with piracy (in the form of comprimised license batches), the latter just makes for a better arguement

We must surely all have encountered someone that thought they were clever picking up that OS for a bargain 20 quid just to find a few months later their license was pulled :P
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I bought a few copies of Windows for £15...
 
spoffle said:
I don't actually buy they were illegally bought in that instance. Ubisoft aren't the most reliable.
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Oh neither do I but that is what is being told and what we will be told. We have no way of proving otherwise either so we will continue to moan or invent reasons as to why it has been done.
 
Typical corporation that uses Luxembourg for its own accountancy advantage, but won't allow the end user to shop around.
 
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Bane said:
Typical corporation that uses Luxembourg for its own accountancy advantage, but won't allow the end user to shop around.
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This is a really good point. What happend to the free market? If I cant find something in the UK at a decent price I usually end up buying it from China
 
Bane said:
Typical corporation that uses Luxembourg for its own accountancy advantage, but won't allow the end user to shop around.
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Probably the publishers or independent producers are putting more pressure on them.

After all, what's the big deal? Richer countries can pay a little bit more, while the others cannot. The costs with actual distribution are very low (even hard retail copies are lower in price - almost every time, lower than Steam and the sorts), so as I see it, it's quite a good move against piracy. Put them all on the same level and they'll pirate that all the way to the Moon. And no, most likely the number of players actually buying the game at a sale while they've already played it, would be minimum.

A bad move will be (and with this I totally agree), is for Steam to not allow you to play a game while abroad and outside your area, although you've bough it fair and square in the region you actually came from.
 
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They are just pushing people towards piracy, yet they complain about it. When games come out Steam always has daft pricing. Maybe if they lowered those then people won't have to go buy the games from key sites at half the price
 
yea my son bought dead rising 3 for like 40 or whatever today on steam.......

Told his mum I could have bought a cdkey for half that lol

What they want is for people to grow up and see £40-60 as a normal price for games and pay it without question.
 
Thekwango said:
huh? Different kind of thing altogether surely. By that rational if I buy a UK DVD/BD in the UK and move to,let's say the U.S. and bring said DVD/BD with me I wont be able to watch it......I don't think so.
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well unless you took your uk dvd player with you no you wouldn't.
 
Woogie said:
When you buy games on cdkey websites a lot of them Gift you the key/game via steam rather than giving you a key to actually activate yourself.

I have no idea where they are stolen from, A hijacked shipment of games bound for a superstore perhaps? Ubisoft went on a mad once recently and deactivated thousands of copies of FC4 that were bought from cdkey sites because they said the keys were stolen or acquired illegally before being sold on.
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those sites arnt using stolen keys they're buying the games in these cheap regions like Russia and Brazil then selling them to uk.

when the game is £40 here but only £20 in brazil you can buy a few hundred then sell the keys to the uk customers and bin the disks for a big profit.
 
I remember my dvd drive in my PC telling me I could change the region 3 more times before it was locked :) Used to buy a lot of R1 westerns back in the day.
 
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