After three weeks, Crimeans can be left without Steam

The Steam VKontakte page confidently warns users that, not later than February 1, 2015, Valve will be forced to close the opportunity for residents of Crimea to buy games in their digital store.

Thus, Valve is subject to the decree of the President of the United States of December 20 last year, which prohibits the export of American goods and technologies, as well as the sale and supply of services to the Crimea.
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Gift copies and exchange of items will not be blocked. It will be forbidden to only buy products on Steam.

Most likely, Crimeans will be able to receive gifts from users from other regions, but detected attempts to bypass regional restrictions will lead to a ban account.

The ban on the purchase can be immediately terminated after the lifting of sanctions.

It should be noted that the page vk.com/steam has the status of an informal and supported by volunteers ( this has several advantages ). But the people behind her updates have some sources in Valve. For example, the administration of the page on a short foot with the manager of the Russian community Steam - the official employee of Valve.

The administration of the page claims that the news is accurate and reliable due to insider information, and there was no official statement from Valve and, most likely, it will not be - the company is very uncommunicative.

There is good reason to believe this news. Earlier, Crimeans have already lost access to the largest remote work exchanges Odesk and Elance.