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my notification get spammed by new posts and threads of games i cannot access due to region problem there is no way i can unsubscribe
To submit a ticket try: Support > Steam Community > I need help with something not listed here. > Contact Steam Support
Also: if a game is no longer available then this does not automagically imply that their community aka gamehub also gets blocked. I happen to proudly own several games which the EU suddenly took an offense to and lo and behold... while the game is no longer accessible to me to purchase my purchase (previous purchase?) is still avaialble to me, as is the games community hub.
Yah, pardon me for laughing it out right now about tons of people claiming that Steam intrudes on our rights and whatever nonsense while I have clear proof that when push comes to shove.. the gamer rights prevail.
Talk is cheap, and I agree:
https://steamhost.cn/app/1714420
^ this game is no longer accessible to me in the EU. But because I bought this game long before the hypocrisy started.. I can still download and play it.
And I also need to correct myself.. as of right now I also can also no longer access their community hub, that used to be different. So my guess: maybe a blocked hub? Doesn't surprise me, the EU does not shy away from full on censorship.
Thing is... I can still download this game to this very day:
https://i.imgur.com/EF0K158.png
^ pictures, or it didn't happen.
My 2 cents => People complaining about Steam and consumer rights and what not have no idea what they're talking about. No idea how far Steam takes this, or tries to.
https://i.imgur.com/yd2zr1F.png
^ more proof.
I don't care what anyone thinks of this game. I have 0 hours into it truth be told, the main reason I bought & supported it is because I had a hunch that the hypocrites were going to take their shot at it. Lo and behold: they did.
Before this I could still access the community hub, but even that is now denied to me. Pure censorship.
And here I was... thinking that censorship only applied to dicatorships.
... or maybe this conclusion is still right?
Steam will lock your account for suspicious activity.
What you need to do is open a support ticket and ask Steam to unsubscribe you.
They won't. VPNs only cause accounts to get locked when you try to make a purchase with one -- which is something you shouldn't be doing. Using one for the community isn't going to cause a problem.
Vacations are a thing you know; where you suddenly access your stuff from another location. I never heard of people getting banned from that.
I live in the Netherlands and yet I could still safely log on and install my games on a laptop while I was in Scotland. (which even made me leave the EU).
I'm still here, as you can see.
Is the community Forums region not account bound too?
So he would only see it with a vpn if he would change his steam region.
I don't know which is why I suggest it with the caveat: "However, if community hub access is based on your Steam store region and not your IP address, this will not work. The only other alternative is to try contacting Steam Support and seeing if they can help."
It all depends in the end on how Valve implemented this system which is only used for a handful of regions. If it was like the original Steam Families, then it's IP based. There is only way to know for sure: someone in an affected region testing this and finding out.