Thread: How to buy Steam games from other regions without VPN

EDIT: THIS METHOD NO LONGER WORKS - Try the VPN method.

Stumbled across this while trying to discover Steam cart id's without reconnecting to a VPN account.

As mentioned in this thread, Modern Warfare 2 is only $62 AUD via the UK Steam store, instead of $98 AUD through the Australian Steam store.

Well, there's a much easier way of grabbing it at the cheaper price, without paying for UK VPN access or signing up to a trial.

1. Follow this URL: http://store.steampowered.com/?cc=uk
2. Buy game (putting your credit/debit card "country" as United Kingdom)

That's it.

Oh, you can also compare prices to other regions. Changing the "uk" in the URL to "it" will take you to the Italian region's store (Euro currency).

Please note: this method (as opposed to the VPN method) may mean a risk of getting flagged, as your IP when purchasing the game won't originate from the country you've selected.

Nice one reccy. Great find. I've done the deal but through the 'ie' store so I could use my Euro Irish CC. Downloading the demo now. See you tomorrow night

will this work to uncensor l4d2???

Yes.

Can anyone confirm this is still working? OD & I just tried with 3 cards, including one that worked previously, to purchase a game using this method - all failed.

how did it fail? complete denial? or just gave you the AU copy?

Complete denial. They may have instigated IP checks (meaning you need to use a VPN), or changed the credit card auth to require a country match (meaning you need to use Entropy).

i got in in time then

Thank god, got in time too

URL method still works. Jimmy just purchased a game using it.

Must have been the connection we're on at work, blocking something... or something. *shrug