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Chazore said:
You know, this Christmas has been made difficult when it came to gifting people from around the world games on Steam.

Thanks to the shitty regional pricing block, I couldn't gift many people from the US, let alone countries outside or inside of the EU.

Now while we can chalk that up as a bad thing for Valve, hows about GoG and the rest of those clients not having those games on there, the ones I wanted to gift to those that wanted them. If the competition actually had a spine, they'd all have the same games within their storefronts, and those who think region gift blocks are a good idea, can suffer and lose out.

GOG is trying. Most indie games appear on their store at the same time or shortly after launching on Steam, excpet for the garbage ones that remain Steam exclusive.

Now it's only a matter of big publishers losing their fear and embracing GOG too, but it will take time.

As for the region lock... well, "we" are part of the problem. If "we" hadn't gone to those russian, to name one of the problematic regions, sites that sold Steam keys for less than half its price in Euros or Dollars, then maybe we wouldn't face this problem now. It's the same as the daily sales of the old Winter and Summer Sales, if people hadn't abused the system, asking for a refund of the game they just bought a day earlier because now it was featured in one of those flash sales with a bigger discount, then Valve wouldn't have changed now. But no, "we" had to be smart and clever, and in the end it came back and bite us in the back, with our pants down.

That said, I agree that Valve has overdone with those regions. I'm surprised you, Chazore, can be affected so much for this given that you're UK region.