Recently got a VPN because I’ve become increasingly paranoid (It’s getting crazy out there), but… is it a bannable offense to use it while on Steam?
I’m finding mixed answers, and I wanna be safe, so I figured the Fediverse might know.
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I exclusively use a VPN with everything and have done so for years. If steam has an issue, they have yet to inform me lol.
On a serious note tho, there is an issue if you use a VPN to access store prices for a country outside your own. Regional pricing means that some people game the system and Valve rightfully cares about that.
Yeah I changed it so my VPN says I’m in America for this reason
In general there’s nothing wrong with using a VPN. And in particular, steam doesn’t care that my home network funneled all traffic via work for a while.
About 10 years ago my steam account was locked for 3 months after bypassing regional pricing. At the time they said it was first and last warning and the only reason they didn’t ban my account was I’d previously got approval to change the steam URL to redirect to a different store region to purchase a game not available on my default store.
Be careful.
Previously got approval? Whut?
I asked Steam support if I could change the store to buy a game not available in my region. They gave approval.
Really? What was the game?
I’ll allow it.
