Steam Allows Publishers to Disable Cross Region Gifting

If you are doing all your Christmas Shopping on Steam and gifting out to friends and family be aware of some new limitations on cross region gifting starting to creep in.

Valve appears to have added a new tick box which enables titles to become region locked. The new option was first discovered in the database of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

As you can see the new tag, “AllowCrossRegionTradingAndGifting,” is set to “No”

According to sources it only applies to Eastern Europe and South America at the moment, where prices are often lower. This may be the reason the feature has been added. Retail keys are unaffected.