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Can US customers buy games from the Russian Steam store?

• Avshalom 13y ago
  No, but Russian customers can buy games from the russian store and gift them to US customers. Or at least they could I don't know if Valve has changed that yet. There is/was a pretty big black/grey market doing that. However Valve does consider it violating some ToS or something so if they think you're doing it as a business they'll take all your games and ban you for life.
  • drdaeman 13y ago
    I've heard they only ban you from (any) trading/gifting, not from Steam itself. Although I'm not sure whenever this is true or not.
    • Avshalom 13y ago
      Could be. I'm mostly just remembering a dust up from a few years back, so I may mis remembering.
• drdaeman 13y ago
  Only by visiting Russia and accessing Steam store from here. Or with the aid of Russian proxies, but I heard Valve considers this a ToS violation.