[theprotocol]

I'm not sure if that's wise, if you've always been making purchases through the VPN, it's possible Steam thinks the VPN location is your "normal" location. In that case, making the switch would trip the alarm so to speak.

I really don't know for sure though. Their policy is a mess and their tech support is reminiscent of the automated shenanigans of the bots from Portal.

I think the idea is preventing people in the US from buying games at, say, Russian prices and thus "gaming" the system (which incidentally creates one hell of a debate about globalization).

[Insanity]

Yeah I considered that too, but I have not actually made purchases through the VPN. I did not buy any games anymore for quite some years as I stopped gaming as much, thus when I started using the VPN it was only to talk to friends and play the occasional game, all after a long time of not being logged in :-)

And indeed, it's probably about the pricing of games in different regions!