Steam adds restriction to prevent the Use of VPNs

[LEGEND67]

Steam has put another restriction in place to prevent users from continuing to take advantage of the platform's regional pricing system. Typically, games are cheaper in countries with lower incomes, leading to some users utilising VPNs in order to hide their actual location and purchase games at a significant discount.
Steam already has multiple restrictions in place to stop this exploit, but now the company has introduced another process with the aim of further deterring those looking to cheat the system. As SteamDB notes, you now need to complete a purchase with a payment method from the country you claim to be located in before Steam will approve a change to your store region.

Valve has recently made changing your store country more strict, which requires completing a purchase using a payment method from that country.

This should hinder the ability of using VPNs to buy games cheaper. pic.twitter.com/IozwoO6gsi

— SteamDB (@SteamDB) July 29, 2020

 

[Empire]

And that I never used VPN and brought games from other counties in the first place anyway so it doesn't affect me as long as I can get games cheap on third part stores outside of steam lol

 

[froggyboy604]

This sounds good for game makers who don't want people to use VPN to get cheaper games by using VPN.

 

[LEGEND67]

This sounds good for game makers who don't want people to use VPN to get cheaper games by using VPN.

Yeah that's actually a great add-on since some people try to buy games on cheaper store like in India we get many offers on then.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Bad news for all the VPN ads on youtube.