Steam is the most popular online distribution service for PC games and a platform for game developers developed and maintained by Valve. Gamers around the world are using loopholes to buy games on Steam for less than in their home region. To do this, a VPN is often used to change the region. Most often, Argentina is chosen for buying games, which, due to the difficult economic situation and the devaluation of its currency, has one of the lowest prices on Steam. Valve is actively fighting with the use of VPNs up to the ban of the account seen in this. One of the innovations was the prohibition of changing the region more than once every three months, which makes the trick extremely inconvenient, except in rare cases. Previously, bargain hunters could buy a game in another region via VPN and then switch back, but now they will have to wait at least three months for this.
Another news from Valve was the update of the regional pricing tool. The new pricing guidelines won't be to everyone's taste, as they make games more expensive just about anywhere outside of the United States. Developers don't have to use Steam's pricing tool, but it's convenient for them because it does a quick conversion to the dozens of currencies in which Steam sells games.
