From what I understand using a VPN to get games cheaper isn't allowed, but what about regular VPN use? Is it against the rules to use a VPN? Sometimes I browse the web with a VPN and don't want to get into any trouble if I use this site or the client while the VPN is on. I only ask because steam doesn't allow VPN use at all which I think is kind of silly

Vertically Protected Narcotics?

Got any? :D

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Virtual Private Networks

Yes. You're only required to confirm your country when you buy a game. If the location the website displays at checkout is different from where you actually are, you (legally) can't check out and have to do something to fix the problem. Note that it applies even if you aren't using a VPN / Tor / whatever.

I did. Jeff Hardy took them all.

Very punny neets :-P

As long as you buy a few games, you're, awesome. No one cares how you access the site, as long as you don't try bringing it down.

Yeah. you can use it for regular you but I am not sure about buying games and all that stuff. I haven't tried yet in my purevpn app till now. Do you have any suggestions for gaming vpn?

In the https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-User-Agreement
]user agreement[/url] it is stated that VPNs are not allowed to circumvent GOG pricing. There is no other mentioning of VPN there at all.

"6.10. Please treat this system sensibly and don't exploit it (for example by using VPNs or other methods to manipulate how your location appears) – that's not cool."

@Davidx_117: Luckily this is NOT steam and I highly doubt that GOG will close your account the minute you used VPN accidentally even in this case (they probably might warn you though and point you to the user agreement). The thing you mentioned about Steam is one of the main reasons I like GOG so much and why I also despite Steam so much. The Steam TOC are several pages long with several things in it that would not even be legal in some countries. They clearly only care about money and not about the customers. I once had to fight with support to get my hacked Steam account back - they treated me as if I was the thief here. Whenever they did not want me to help they simply did not reply. For some users they simply closed their accounts including access to the games they bought. Like I said here on GOG you can at least talk to actual PEOPLE while Valve is nothing more like a machine and they treat customers the exact same way. I know that many people like Steam and they like the additional features and yes, some games simply can only be bought on Steam but whenever I have the choice I would rather buy here than on Steam.

Edit: Oh, I just noticed that this thread was quite old. Then sorry for the lengthy post about a thing that probably has been cleared for ages. Well, maybe it will help somebody else someday :D

This brings up an interesting question to which I don't really expect to get an answer, but... I've been using a Hurricane Electric tunnelbroker.net IPv6 tunnel since 2008 to obtain IPv6 Internet access due to the lack of IPv6 support by Canadian ISPs. There is no VPN software involved, just the drivers that come with the OS (Linux) which set up a tunnel endpoint using the 6in4 IPv6 encapsulation to Hurricane's terminal server endpoint. In my case, the endpoint that it chose for me when I signed up is located in New York City, and as such geolocation services may detect my IP address as being in the United States either specifically in New York, or just as being owned by Hurricane Electric which is an American ISP.

At the moment GOG.com does not have a presence on the IPv6 Internet (that I've noticed), and so my traffic to GOG goes over IPv4 from Canada, however... in the probably near future when GOG does enable their services over IPv6, my browser, Galaxy, etc. will begin to connect to GOG for the first time over IPv6, routed through New York City visible as an American IP address.

When they do so, I hope there is a way to configure my account to indicate that my IPv6 IP address is in fact terminated within a Canadian household, or I may have problems purchasing from GOG as I do not intend to disable my IPv6 tunnel nor institute hacks or hassles to work around any geolocation problems that may arise.

I may be thinking overly-cautiously, but I've actually had this exact same problem at Bundlestars.com 2 years or so ago and it was a headache to even explain it to them let alone get them to sort it out. I just checked Bundlestars and it appears I'm accessing them over IPv4 so they may have disabled their IPv6 presence to prevent problems with dualstack customers and offload solving these issues to the future.

Hopefully GOG will postpone such upgrades until my ISP (Shaw Cable) provides native residential IPv6 support.

Just Skelzy predicting the future... :)

Knives! Are they okay?

Not sure I follow. Why should normal users be worried about DDoS? Direct Denial of Service is a method of having lots of machines sending requests to a website, such that the website is unable to respond, effectively closing out the website from users. Normal users would not be at threat from this as they are not providing a service which can be blocked. Also, using a vpn would not affect this in the slightest, as the provider would be blocked from responding irrespective of where the request comes from.
Now cryptoware and such like is a real threat to all users and those types of things, but again vpn isn't going to help there. All vpn does is re-route your requests across various networks to anonymise your details and login information.

Maybe I miss something in the translation, but a vpn will not magically fix a connection which is lost at the providers end.

>expecting shaw to do anything
>in the current year of our lord Trudeau in 2018

I've never heard of someone getting penalized on Steam for just using VPN. It's basically the same as GOG. As long as you're not masking your country of origin to circumvent store prices and the like you're going to be fine using a VPN, plenty of people use them.