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[Suggestion] Show when/if a game is reigon locked

Open j2nik opened this issue 11 years ago • 1 comments

good for traders

j2nik avatar Oct 16 '14 00:10 j2nik

The problem with this is that there are several methods that can be used to region lock a game. The game can have the "Allow Cross Region Trading and Gifting" set to on (in fact, now it defaults to on for new games) which prevents users from trading or gifting the game between regions.

The game can also be IP locked so that it can only be activated, or sometimes even can only be played, in a certain region.

Finally, games can be "language locked" so that certain regional versions of games can only be played in certain languages which also effectively region locks them.

To reliably report on this information, Enhanced Steam would need to keep a database of every subscription ID, which are region locked, and if locked: for which regions and what type of lock is in place. Not that it would be impossible to do this, but it would be a lot of work to compile this information into a format that the extension could easily digest.

It may make more sense for Enhanced Steam to potentially tap into an external database that has this information. I'll see what I can find out.

jshackles avatar Oct 16 '14 01:10 jshackles

So, Enhanced Steam is discontinued. There is now Augmented Steam. Perhaps your requested feature/bugfix is already implemented there! If not, you could move your issue there.

VanityFox avatar Aug 24 '19 01:08 VanityFox