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blue 21 May @ 9:21am
We should be allowed to limit "Offer to Multiple" to a specific region
I set up an offer to multiple people, meaning anyone can accept so long as they agree to the trade. One of the games has a region lock on it.
Person accepts the trade, i look into his steam and it says he's from Armenia. I then go to Fanatical and check to see if that game is activatable in NA - NOPE.
I then comment that they need to cancel the offer because it's their fault for not doing research before accepting. I "agree to cancel", he cancels and marks it as "abanadoned", and my fulfillment rate dropped by 2%.

How is it at all fair that someone goes and accepts my offer, completely ignoring the region lock on the games, and then i get punished because i do my research and find the keys would not have activated in my region? You could argue that he possibly bought an NA key, but when you see that he didn't bother replying at all, it's kind of obvious that the guy just didn't do his research. Plus, it would make no sense for him to buy an NA key, as i'm sure the prices are higher on those as opposed to the regional pricing in Armenia.

I think this is a fair enough argument to have a setting to limit what region people are listed as when doing offers to multiple users. Make it so if i see that there's a game that only activates in NA, ONLY people listed as an NA region user can accept the offer.

Due to this experience and fear of further tanking my score because of someone else's lack of 2-minute research (literally all i had to do was go to Fanatical game page and scroll to their country on "activation check" feature to see it wouldn't activate), i can't even use the offer to multiple feature anymore.
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Hallak65 21 May @ 4:36pm 
I totally support the idea, but this will not happen in the near future. Barter is very slow to implement new features and a lot of users don't fill their regions, so only NA etc can't work.
What you can do, tag your games as locked NA or give the steamdb subid as tag. This usually helps me.
(And nobody cares about fulfillment rate)
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luckz 24 May @ 8:49pm 
- the other user is in the wrong for marking a trade 'abandoned' when it is not actually abandoned but "agreed to cancel"

- in general, you are in the wrong for making up absurd region locks without actually investigating them (you could just look at the info on SteamGifts, if it's a common bundle game – we try quite hard to keep that reasonably accurate), and treating these imaginary region restrictions as facts.
« a Devil May Cry 4 SE copy bought in Armenia from Fanatical indeed won't work in the US[www.steamgifts.com]; and you now have the game from KB30 anyway?; the point is that region lock infos on Humble and Fanatical never tell you where the keys can be redeemed but only if people in that country get the exact same key package from them »

- nobody cares about fulfillment percentages etc (hopefully)
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Hallak65 25 May @ 6:49am 
You can check the keys region locks, if you own the game already. You need the steamdb extension. After that you need to try to activate the key on the steampowered.com/account/registerkey page. You will get an error about you already owning the game and the steamdb link for that particular subid, so you can check the region lock on steamdb.
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blue 28 May @ 9:46am 
Originally posted by luckz:
- in general, you are in the wrong for making up absurd region locks without actually investigating them
you now have the game from KB30 anyway?
1. i don't make up absurd region locks. that's whatever publisher gives the keys
2. i got the kb30 AFTER i made this post clearly.
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