Post by trog @ 03:34pm 30/04/10 | 32 Comments
All for USD$42.49.
It's a great deal, but that bundle is currently unavailable to Australians, presumably due to the regionalised pricing that we get to enjoy so much here. So I guess you can just admire it from afar.
We're looking at ways you can evade Steam's region-based restrictions to take advantage of this deal, but it's only on sale for a few more days, so you might have to try and figure it out yourselves. If you do, let us know in the comments!
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Posted 03:36pm 30/4/10
Posted 03:44pm 30/4/10
Posted 03:49pm 30/4/10
Posted 03:49pm 30/4/10
hmm, I can't even see that deal in my store...
Posted 04:03pm 30/4/10
It may still work though. It is possible to have games on your account that aren't available in your region through gifting. So the cc=uk trick may work.
Posted 04:06pm 30/4/10
anonymitynetwork.com works to this effect.
Also, gifting works with this method, confirmed.
Posted 04:29pm 30/4/10
Posted 04:35pm 30/4/10
Posted 04:40pm 30/4/10
Posted 06:56pm 30/4/10
Posted 09:32pm 30/4/10
Posted 11:01pm 30/4/10
I did have it on PS2, but the FKN EX MRS must still have it or sold it somewhere.
My mate said he had a copy of it and sold it for like $200 last year.
Posted 12:25am 01/5/10
Posted 09:26am 01/5/10
Posted 11:27am 02/5/10
Posted 01:26pm 02/5/10
Yeah, I set it up to only allow steam access to the only server in Aus it seems that carrys Liberty City and so far it's downloaded 2mb in a day ha ha. Damn you Gamearena and Steam, work better!
Posted 01:42pm 02/5/10
Only works on Valve software
Posted 11:25pm 04/5/10
getting bad company 2 and alpha protocol from the UK i saved $70 over the AU store pricing.
check steamprices.com/au/notavailable and steamprices.com/au/topextracharges to do your window shopping before buying
Posted 01:34pm 06/5/10
Posted 04:08pm 06/5/10
Steam has a
message up.
The email I got says :
The payment has already gone from my account, how is it a processing payment if they've taken it and are going to refund it. Damnit, Liberty City finally just downloaded and I ordered a game pad today.
Anyone else having any issues?
last edited by Syco at 16:08:59 06/May/10
Posted 04:10pm 06/5/10
Posted 04:13pm 06/5/10
Posted 04:17pm 06/5/10
There's no doubt a line in the TOS that they can tell you to get f***ed at any time for any reason and that your license to run any software is entirely at their pleasure, likely untested in court.
Posted 04:27pm 06/5/10
No problem my end. My web banker says :
It only shows a debit once it's left the account, until then it just shows the money as missing from my account (Debit VISA)
Yeah, great way to spend 50 odd gig haha.
Probably something in the fineprint. All I could find in their support was a stipulation that if a gift was gifted to another country it wouldn't be playable until it hits release date.
I wrote down the CD keys for GTA IV and Liberty City, I wonder if they'd still work heh. I've sent them an email from the email address I used for the UK account to gift from.
Edit: Haha, I just clicked "go offline" on steam and the buttons changed from Purchase on each game to Play ... and they open and play. Odd.
last edited by Syco at 16:27:54 06/May/10
Posted 04:36pm 06/5/10
omgz, free games + legit cdkey?
last edited by ctd at 16:36:56 06/May/10
Posted 08:36pm 06/5/10
Haha, it's kind of looking like it, I just played GTA Episodes for two-three hours and logged into the rockstar thingo and MSN thingo and the game played fine. I must admit this is the first time I've got a GTA game and tried to play the missions instead of see how many cops I can have chasing me.
Posted 02:19am 08/5/10
Looks like it may have been just a mess up with their fraud detection. I replied and hopefully will get to keep them at the same price.
Posted 05:44am 08/5/10
I don't understand this though, don't you need to give a (obviously false) billing address when you create a UK account? And considering you don't have a UK credit/debit card, doesn't the transaction get pulled up for the billing address not matching your Australian card? Or do they not actually check billing address against online card payments?
:S
Posted 09:46am 08/5/10
Posted 12:08pm 08/5/10
I replied with an AU one.
Well, I think they're more worried about the credit card being stolen then someone pretending to be from there considering they haven't seemed to try to hard to stop people doing it before. I use 12 Downing St as my "UK Address" heh. I guess I should have used Paypal.
I just got another reply asking for the expiry date and name on my credit card, they didn't say anything about me using an Australian address or phone number in the last email I replied to and you'd assume if they were to have an issue with it they wouldn't be asking for more info, they'd just flat out refuse to continue to restore it.
Posted 12:08pm 08/5/10
Posted 03:22pm 09/5/10
They replied again and said they have unlocked my account (the one I gifted the game from) but said nothing about the rockstar pack. So I goto log into my main account and it's been disabled. I log into the UK account and it now has CoD MW2 attached to it but nothing in the manage gifts. The rockstar games are working if I run them from the folder they're in but I can't log into steam on that account due to it being locked heh.
Maybe if I keep asking them to fix it I'll get even more free stuff? ha ha.