Just recently, there has been an update to Steam's region locking, which affects gifting where games that are region locked can be activated on accounts outside the countries it is locked too... But cannot be played.
(ie. A game purchased in Russia cannot be played on an US account. It can be activated on one, but not played using one.)
As an Australian, we are given the full price (in AUD to USD) conversions.
I was wondering: Are these region-locks backwards compatible?
So, if I was to buy all my games in a full-paying country (ie. Australia or the USA), would I still be able to play them in a lower-paying country (ie. Russia and Malaysia)?
Secondly, would there be any workaround if I was to be in one of those lower-paying countries and want to purchase the games at the full US/AU/Whatever price so that it can still be played outside the lower-priced countries, instead of paying the lower price/currency (ie. Singaporean Dollars, Malaysian Riggit and Russian Ruples)?
Because then if it was region locked, my Steam account would be practically useless during my university years overseas.
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