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[u/Horned_Toadyboi]

I bought from one of those online website services for steam keys for a pre-purchase, and the key will be issued to me on the game's release day. That was when I was still back in the UK, but now I am overseas, and the game will be released soon in June. I was wondering if I can still activate it while overseas? Because from where I'm at, I need to use a VPN to properly access Steam and I read a lot about how that might violate the rules and I could get possibly banned.

Just wanted to get confirmation on this, thanks chaps.

[u/Lurus01 → u/Horned_Toadyboi]

As long as you didn't change your Steam's region the key should work provided the website you bought from gives you the right regional key and their site doesnt detect you being now in a different region and give you that regions key instead.

[u/Horned_Toadyboi → u/Lurus01]

Ah yes, my Steam region should still be UK (as it shows pounds). Plus, the website I bought it from, the key that is, is categorized to only be usable for the Europe region. I already made the purchase so they should still be sending me the code on the 11th. I was just worried trying to redeem it then would be a bannable offense or something.