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Yes, but people on Steamtrades are making buyers activate games through VPN with a risk of getting an account lock.
Yeah, there are some clever fuckers who think they can still get away with selling locked games by saying things like "It's OK, there is VPN," and other bullshit. Would never want any nice people's accounts getting locked, so, bump.
I thought VPN's were something steam frowned upon and had written into their EULA but never actually enforced?
it happens. I don't know how likely you are to get caught, but they definitely do punish people for it.
well... crap... I bought cs off a guy for cheap (like 2 or 3 keys) but it was region locked. I added it to an alt account and I bought the game for my friend's alt as well. Will this have a chance of ip banning steam accounts? I have almost 50 games on my main.
They can't IP ban accounts. That'd be too difficult of a blanket ban that could cause more issues. They would just limit a single steam account's access to valve's servers.
Yes, it is possible. How likely that is will vary from one person's opinion to another.
They wouldn't do it based on your IP address though. IP addresses can and do change at times, plus if they locked out your IP address it would affect ANY account that tried to log in from that address. They would just lock the particular Steam accounts in question, which all have a unique ID number associated with them.
Bump, there are still sellers who suggest that people use VPN, just so they can sell their crap. sighs
You should start a new topic about gift selling
"Steam Gift Purchases can not be sold. Attempting to sell a gift subscription is a violation of the Steam Subscriber Agreement and may result in your account being permanently disabled. You can trade gifts using our new Steam Trading system and can read more about that here."
"You agree that you will not use IP proxying or other methods to disguise the place of your residence, whether to circumvent geographical restrictions on game content, to purchase at pricing not applicable to your geography, or for any other purpose. If you do this, we may terminate your access to your Account."
Source: http://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/
Please bump this topic in order for everyone to see, some people don't know that VPNs are dangerous.