its works fine, the steam deck isnt region locked, so you can still play with your norwegian account and all. its really just the shipping which doesnt work everywhere. also, if you have a problem again, you’ll have to send it to valve from sweden and pick it up again there
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Thank you for confirming - I had also heard this.
I was more worried about switching country/location despite not actually living there and if my inventory might get trade blocked if I do something wrong?
I created a new steam account with a different email address just to order mine on a different country than my main account. You might need a local payment method for the country you are shipping to. Not sure if that's the case for Europe, but it's required for some countries.
Yeah I was thinking about this aswell. But then again you get the trade ban from creating a new account though. I am trying to sell my CS inventory which means I will be buying using steam wallet funds, not card or any other payment option.
If you use region switching to start buying games that are region locked or to abuse regional pricing, then Valve is gunna care. Otherwise, don't think Valve will even notice you bought a Swedish Deck and used it in Norway
No worries, I am also norwegian and I have a Deckert. There is absolutely no restrictions on using the Deck with your account in Norway. Only hassle is the actual acquiring of the machine.
Thanks for your reply!
How did you get yours?
I have a friend in Køben that I ordered it through, and went to pick it up there :)
Is Steam refusing to ship it to Norway, or you can't buy it at all? Maybe you can you use some kind of package forwarder?
I used to use https://www.mailboxde.com/ back when Amazon still refused to ship Kindles directly to my country and it worked just fine.
Cant buy it at all. I thought about the forwarding thing, but that isnt really the issue since I can just drive to Sweden and pick it up (and some cheap booze at the same time).
Fellow Norwegain here.I ended up buying mine used while on Interrail in Berlin this summer.
Ah cool I was on interrail in Berlin this summer aswell. Too bad none of the stores would accept my CS knife as payment though LOL