| NiKKoM said: Well you US people better stop gifting us EU people games.. cause: People in the Steam gifting-scene from Russia and USA claim that they have received emails from Valve, urging them to stop gifting to players from Europe. On some accounts, buying games has been completely disabled. This is completely unacceptable. For most of people, buying games via a USA-gifter has never been about getting the game cheaper (at least not for Germans). It has always been about getting the uncut version of a game.
Here’s the rest of the text from the reddit user lighthaze. “I see Valve’s problem from a monetary point-of-view (games are cheaper in Russia / the USA than in Europe), but I think it’s hypocritical of Valve to use the advantages of globalization, while prohibiting it’s users from doing the same. As an adult German I am allowed to buy uncut games. Why won’t Valve let me? The German community has been asking for an age verification system for years now and we have gotten basically no answers at all. Hello XXX, In order to prevent further deactivation of your account by our system due to suspected fraud, do not use other accounts to deliberately circumvent regional restrictions or prices of games with the intention to send these to your main account via the gifting system. Please do not buy games in regions in which there is a price difference to your home country and do not use VPN or proxy software to circumvent these limitations. Such activities are not support by the Steam support and accounts using such actions may be closed and excluded from buying games on Steam. We are creating the prices together with the publishers and try to keep them up to date. All prices and limitations of low violence versions are done by us and have a legal background. If you or your account can be connected again with such activities in the future, a permanent deactivation of your account cannot be ruled out. *Best wishes, Steam Support Team
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Wow, that's terrible. Steam is starting to look worse and worse.
"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360
"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed
"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick
"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance
