Steam games unavailable for "my region?"

I downloaded Steam a month or so back and I've had trouble downloading the games I wanted. I'm kinda embarrassed to say but I'm a bit of a vampire buff, because of this I decided I really wanted to download Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. I also love RPGs, so it was a win/win.

Unfortunately, when I tried to download the game a message appeared saying something along the lines of "this game is not available for your region." Does anyone know why this is? I live in New York, I'm surprised that games on Steam wouldn't be available for this area.

Has anyone else had this trouble? It's pissing me off. D:

I've never used steam, but I've done some googling. I don't know if this may help you are not...

Question

I receive the Steam error message "This subscription is not available for purchase in your country." when attempting to purchase a game through Steam.

Answer

This error message will display if you are attempting to purchase a game which is not for sale over Steam in the region you are connecting from. Developers and publishers of third-party titles may decide to restrict territories where certain games can be sold on Steam."

So I can't download this game (which is unavailable in retail stores) in the United States via Steam? What the hell, this is America...

That's unusual it's usually Europe that has their region locked out of games.

I thought it said religion. >__>

"I thought it said religion. >__>"

"ItalyCanadian9 said:

"I thought it said religion. >__>"

Yes you seem to see everything as religion. But let's not make this about you, you tend to creep people out. Including me.

I want to know if there is some way to bypass this because I really, really want to play this game. I've tried Best Buy and even *shudder* GameStop, though neither of them had it in stock. Even if they did, I still wouldn't want to buy it in a retail store because I wouldn't want my parents to see the game. They know I am mature enough for any game or movie, but that game might seem weird to them because of the shockingly provocative box art.

I don't think Troika has a store, largely because the stuido is defunct and neither CD Projekt's Good Old Game program or the Activision store have it in stock. I feel like I am getting royally screwed."

Piracy is your friend.

"Piracy is your friend."

All is good, thanks for the input. I guess when I checked Steam a few months back Bloodlines had just become available, which would explain the temporary region restriction.

I'm playing the game now and it's great. Oorah!

can you change your region setting?

No, but I remembered that a similar problem happened with iTunes. It seems that some content when first released for download are region specific, but after a few weeks or months the region lock is lifted and it becomes available elsewhere. Ergo, I got the game.