Buying games on Steam?

Question

Electronic commerce

I do not quite understand the principle of operation, and I hope someone will explain. Interesting ways of solving and the cause of the problem.
Let's take Civilization V as an example. When I go to the game page, I get an alert "The game is not available in your region" (Peter). But at the same time, I can buy a disc in the St. Petersburg offline store and activate it through Steam. wtf?
py.sy. There are a number of games with such an alert that I would like to purchase, but there is no desire to stomp into the offline store. Solutions?

Answer 1

steambuy.com will solve your problems. Prices are lower than in the incentive or in the store around the corner. Recommend.

Answer 2

Buy a key in the online store, enter it into Steam, download the game there and play.

Answer 3

I bought Fallout 3 for myself with all the DLCs through a friend from Belarus - no publishers blocked the sale of the game there. He sent the required amount + $ 3 for the service, and he quickly gave it to me in Steam.
So there is such an option.

Answer 4

Region != city, region = country.
It’s just that under an agreement with a publisher in our country, the sale of copies of the game through Steam is not licensed
. And offline copies are easy, because the publisher of the discs in the Russian Federation has worked hard on this.
You can try proxy or VPN