Valve turning off "regionalized games"

[[ES] Mindflayer]

According to this post at Arstechnica and the original Consumerist article, Valve is deactivating games purchased in regions outside of the current player's location. Needless to say, this has not sat well with customers.

I have to wonder how well they thought this through. A businessman on travel who wants to get his game on get punished? How about the military folks who might be living on the economy, but get stocked at the local Exchange?

[[ES] Geordie]

Not only that, but what about UK players who bought it off Steam, Steams servers are in US, I saved £10, does that mean they are going to deactivate my game because I bought from Steam.....

Its more or less the same thing, Valve will end up in court over this, they got their money, they were paid for a product at what  they requested from that region, they can't back out of a contract because they don't like it because somebody saved a few $'s.