Steam Restricts Gifting

Steam's a piece of shit company making everything steadily worse and worse breaking things that no one complained about.

Microsoft and Origin and even uplay is actually looking more like a viable alternative.

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>>375878102
god dam kikes how am I supposed to gift to my othercountry bros

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>Today we’re announcing changes to gifts on Steam. The gifting process has had a bunch of friction in it for a while, and we want to make it easier for you to share the games you love with friends. Steam Gifting will now be a system of direct exchange from gift buyer to gift receiver, and we will be retiring the Gift to E-mail and Gift to Inventory options. Here's a quick breakdown of benefits from the new system:

>Scheduling Gifts Is Even More Straightforward
Go ahead and buy a gift months in advance and have it delivered to a friend on time, every time.

>Declined Gifts Resolve The Way They Should
In the old system, a declined gift would sneak back into the giver's inventory and remain on their bill. Now, if a recipient already has the title, or just doesn't want it, they can click decline and the purchase is refunded directly to the gift giver.

>Safe Cross-Country Gifting
No more worrying if a Gift to E-mail or Gift to Inventory is going to work for a friend, gifts sent through the new system will always work on the receiver's account. When there is a large difference in pricing between countries, gifting won't be available and you'll know before purchase.

These changes are now available. Please let us know if you see any issues or have any feedback.


fucking die valve

Means I can now gift stuff to my friends.

>>375878278
>>375878371
The gift restrictions before this were way fucking worse.

>having steam

Only ironic weebs and furries there.

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>>375878569

>>375878102
>When there is a large difference in pricing between countries

Depends, before it was a region lock sort of thing, so the new system might be better. but how "large" is a "large difference in pricing"
50%? 20%? just 5%?

does this apply to steam keys?

they already region lock games from different pricing regions so i dont really care

they should make it so you can optionally buy region free copies for the international price

>>375878863

Are you retarded?

>>375878939
am I?

i thought this was already a thing

>>375878102
oh fuck, is g2a steam gifting dead now?

bare keys should still work right?

Hah. This change affects no one but jews that stockpiled shit during sales so that they could trade later.

It barely makes gifting any easier (although I guess maybe russians can trade gifts with brazil or something) but that's about it.

>>375878278
Thank Russia for abusing currency

>>375878278
>origin
When people abuse regional pricing on Origin they just stop doing it for the region's store and give everybody USA prices again
>all those ledditors who posted Origin Mexico and a link to Hola whenever there was a sale here

Fucking cheap kikes

>reselling faggots get btfo'd
>stockpiling trading faggots get btfo'd
>3rd world huehues get btfo'd
I see no problem with this. Gifting is meant to fucking be, you know, actually gifting something.

>Steam cucks literally sliding this thread

lmao

>>375880419
I agree, I hate market competition.

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>can no longer buy games to put in your inventory to gift later.

welp, into the fucking trash steam goes.

>Having Steam
>Not having only Origin for their free games and Gog for the good games.

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Valve really are pieces of shit.

They stand to make more than DOUBLE the amount of money on selling some games now.

Fuck Valve.

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It makes sense from a business perspective to finally kill store in inventory. I'm surprised it took this long to do it.

>trading is even more kill

>>375881592
Pretty sure this problem effected the game makers as well.

You know it's all fair to try to find the best deal (fuck yes I'll get Prey for $42 bucks thanks GameBillet). But people abusing Steam regional pricing and then selling the CD Keys is kinda wrong.

>>375878465
what is the problem here?

>>375881532
https://youtu.be/q0souv2SyvQ

>>375881872
People who trade their $5 game for $15, because it's not on sale right now at $20. They're upset.

On the other hand, I buy games on sale and store them in my inventory. I trade them away when I feel like I'm never gonna play them.

It's a "faggy little kids on /v/ whine about something that is only being done to prevent fraud and abuse"

thread

bonus points for every time someone refers to Steam as a company

>>375881872
People who were using a russian VPN to gift games to themselves will have to use a separate account and family share it now.
Doesn't change much.

>>375881993
so you're fucked as well.

>>375878278
>>375880129
And Brazil.

There are better ways to deal with that though, it should only work with accounts you've been friends with a couple of months.

>>375882254
>something that is only being done to prevent fraud and abuse

And make a shitload more money for the Valve corporation.

>>375882582
>booofuuuuckinghooo I can no longer hoard games like an autistic squirrel and kinguin them for a few dollars profit because trading is full of jews anyway so it never works out.

Who cares?

>>375882582
of course since they stop a fraud against them.

>>375878914
>they should make it so you can optionally buy region free copies for the international price

ive been asking for this for years

how am i supposed to buy shit for my burger friend?

>tfw will never get a chance to get a gift from someone on /v/
damn

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Most of this seems to be aimed at sites like G2A and Kinguin where some users put steam gifts on sale and use the email link to gift it to you. Seems like that won't work anymore when I read this
>>375878465

Looks like 10% is the price difference limit, more or less.

>>375883254
It's a fucking joke. They collectively just killed Trading threads on /v/. I really enjoyed sending anons gifts via email.

>>375883459
AHAHAHAHAHA fuck off. 99% of trade items come from fucking humble bundles and 99% of trade threads are fucking beggars.

>valve prove themselves to be money grabbing cunts yet again.

>>375883545
I find begging for games really weird and disgusting, why not pirate them instead? Do these people have no dignity?

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>>375878102
>valve kills sharking and scamming
>adds gay double security measures
>now valve kills this
how do i abuse the system now dammit

>>375883868

It's all children who don't have access to mommy's credit card/actually believe the lies about piracy.

Overall, the whole thing is just another layer of security to prevent retards from getting scammed.

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>tfw no surprise gifting my Brazilian huemonkey bros
They just wanna play games to escape their torturous existence...

>>375883370
That's fucking retarded if true

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>buying games on PC

Gift a game from a cheaper region?

>No, no, no, blocked because of fraud, protecting user blah blah!

Gift a game from more expensive region?

>Oh that's fine because we make more money.


The only thing valve are protecting are their profits. You'd have to be braindead to actually think valve give a shit about their customers any more. They are heartless horrible company just like every other business.

>>375882254
>threading your own post

>>375878102
goddammit, it's another russian mob using steam to money laundry thing?

>>375884414
>business wants to prevent things that lose them money but are ok with things that brings them money

Wow what a n amazing revelation Dandelion or whatever your hippy commune name is. Truly blowing my fucking mind here.

Can steam fucking die already

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>Steam throughly gassing the jews

Based

>>375878278
Steam never updated their password requirements in such a way as to completely lock me out of my account therefore losing the two dozen or so games I had bought so nah, fuck origin forever.

>Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings
>Steam
585TA-RK7NG-L7454

So how long until they stop letting devs generate codes?

"Piracy is a service problem"

Does this mean my friends in Burgerland will be able to send shit to me but I wont be able to send shit to them or vice-versa (Mexico here).

>>375885948
Gringo can still send you whatever, just like before.

Now you'll be able to gift gringo some things but only if they are no more than 10% cheaper in your store compared to his.

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I hate that piece of shit Gabe
Why do people praise him as some Savior of games?

>>375885102
Have you tried contacting support? Seems like something they could easily fix for you, assuming you still know certain facts about your profile like name/email/etc.

So does this mean me and my norwegian friend can't gift each other shit anymore?
>t. USA

Will this impact Canada/USA gifting?

This seems like a dumb change that will just get annoying.

>>375881765
>>trading is even more kill
good

>>375886082
I did, though admittedly not very hard. The path their site instructed me to take to solve my problem required I log in with the account I no longer had access to. I suspect if I just looked for a phone number that would work and maybe one day I will but I've heard they require an awful lot of proof to fix this kind of thing and I'm really not interested in spending a few hours on the phone with support digging through emails and trying to remember account details for the privilege of using their shit platform more, thankfully I got all the games for pretty cheap through humble bundle so I'm not losing that much money.

>>375886196
>>375886245
1st worlders should be fine

>>375879080
This is the only thing I'm worried about, I have fucking 25 more Shovel Knight copies I need to sell on G2A.

>>375886062
Well before i couldnt gift shit through steam so i guess thats a plus now. Not being able to store games anymore is fucking bullshit though.

Hi i have 100$ to giveaway pick a game and your id and ill send it to ya, ps im from sa so some games cant be reedem on other regions

>>375886836
>ps im from sa so some games cant be reedem on other regions
Fuck off hue hue hue

>>375886082
I'm not sure which is worse, EA tech support on the phone, or through their website. I've had their website chat service not respond for three days, only to get an automated message on how to solve a completely different problem than the one I had. On the other hand, I had EA's phone support put me on hold for hours, I just put my phone on the charger, left it there on speaker phone and did house work, made lunch and later dinner, watched netflix, played a game on PS4 since I couldn't get my PC Origin game to work. I was in the middle of dinner when they finally answered the phone, and the tech support person had an accent so thick I couldn't understand half of what they were saying. They ended up refunding the game and taking it off my account, even though all I was asking for was a fucking fix.

EA's tech support is SHIT.

>>375886963
Its called outsourcing ya retard

>>375886082
>ave you tried contacting support
>wasting your time with EA's tech support
kek

>>375887064
It's called shit tech support ya retard

>>375886437
Ah I see, well that's fortunate then. At least you didn't lose much.

>>375878102
Now I'll just buy those games from G2A and gift the key. Wow, that sure was hard.

>>375887103
Nah I've contacted them before and they helped me out, though that was a long time ago, admittedly (during their anniversary free game giveaway)

>>375881872
People buy games cheap and then sell them for a slight profit later on when the sales end

Or they trade games

Or they trade up the value of their game after a sale ends

Valve shit on it's users once again

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>mfw G2A, Kinguin, and 3rd worlders get BTFO by Valve

>>375887761
I'm just going to miss the gifting thread.

>>375878102
Russian and BR Jews BTFO.

>>375887662

After reading through the changes, as a legitimate user, that buys and gifts for normal, "I want game" or, "I want to give someone game" reasons . . . I'm not seeing the issue. The only people screwed over are those that were attempting to exploit the old systems to get things cheaper or profit from said exploitation.

This is a good thing.

>>375887842

You can still gift games to people.

>>375887761
This really sucks, I've been buying my games as gifts from a site for a while since I usually save 25-50% since they're bought during sales.
>>375887842
This

The problem for Valve is that other people are using their platform as a profiting platform. Depending on the country, I'm sure that could have legal problems.

I don't see why they wouldn't just only restrict cross country from certain countries though. Just block countries with cheaper games from giving to westerners

>>375878102
who the fuck even gifts

>having friends
>>>/reddit/

>>375886836
Can you buy something from G2A or some other bundle site and send it?

Some friend of mine bought everyone gifts for a game that only a few of us wanted. Most of us rejected the gifts and he was stuck with like 4 copies of a game that he could only play with 2 of his friends. This gift system would have been awesome back then.

>>375882262
Games bought in Russia have been restricted to the CIS region for like 1.5 years already, this isn't news.

>>375878102
how do i go about selling all my steam inventory crap for real money

just list it on ebay and hope some retard buys it or what?

>>375886836
100 wat tho lmao

>>375889516
>retard

That's no way of calling your potential customer, you fucking autist.

>>375886836
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds if you can(region lock will fuck u up try Humble)
[email protected]

>>375888497
Nop sorry only steambucks

>>375886836
Nier Automata ok? Will steam restrictions fuck it up?

>There are still people that defend Valve

Fuck off Valve, it was fine before.

The removal of being able to store games is completely out of fucking place

>>375886836
http://steamcommunity.com/id/igdenser

Rising Storm 2 please kind anon
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/171306/?snr=1_7_7_topsellers_150_1

>>375878102
Those fuckers

How do we stop steam & that fat fuck

>>375892764
Maybe there's chance though? looking at the community backlash for paid mods.
but i doubt it for this time. only 3rd worlders like me are butthurt it seems

>>375892876
Same here third worlder anon, im also on the same boat as you do.

>>375878278
Seriously i hope m$ stop with the consoles and tries to take down steam

>try to buy a game in Canada with like a $1 price difference to the US
>can't gift it
Bravo gaben.

>>375894347
Haha seriously? i thought it only effects third world anon.

>>375894347


Valves priority is to bleed every single dollar they can.

>>375894631
People sending from US to EU confirm too.

It's 10% difference

>>375878102

>people too retarded to pirate are upset that they can no longer buy cheap games from 3rd worlders at the developer's expense.

I cannot understand the mentality of people upset by this.

>>375894982
It's literally not the third world though.

>>375895015

Any other country but America is irrelevant.

>>375894631
>effects
Sup third worlder

>>375894982
I just want to be able to buy gifts when they are cheap and gift them later.
Or buy gifted games that were bought cheap so I get them cheap.

And it should allow for US/CA/EUR/AUS without issues since those are first world

>>375895136
It doesn't though.

>>375895136

Well good thing you can literally do everything you just said, you illiterate.

>>375895403
You literally can't
>>375894795
>>375894347

>>375895114
affect. haha aight you got me friendos.
its just not fair man. i already got a few american friends that like to gift some indie and premium game occasionally.

>>375895136

>I just want to save $10 when I could just not be retarded and pirate it.

What did he mean by this?

>>375878102
Why not just use Gog? Steam is a meme.

>>375895561
He meant that he wants to play multiplayer, and actually support good content creators since he has a job

>>375895654

>and actually support good content creators since he has a job

Mail 'em a fucking check, then. Not that this is true anyway considering he's buying from Russian key sellers.

Im in college and all my money goes to my tuition. I can barely afford to buy videogames as it is from Aлeкceй on g2a, guess i should just start pirating. Sure they might have gotten 1/4 of the price for the game (unless ofcourse artyom used credit card fraud to buy the key), but its more than 0 right?

>>375895791
They buy keys/gifts from Steam that would have not have been bought in other ways.
They then sell those themselves, and those people that buy them may recommend the game to others.

The only thing that 3rd party sellers end up doing is taking a risk to continue a sale longer than normally set. The owner still gets theirs, but people who missed out on the sale can get it.

Plus the owner may get more since the 3rd parties have to play a game of risk when they buy on sale stuff and estimate how many of them they can resell. If they don't resell enough, then the game owner literally got free sales for nothing.

this is kinda gay. i would buy games that are on sale to keep in my inventory if i didnt want to play it right away and possibly trade it.

valve are fucking jews..

>buy cheap shitty anime game on sale as a joke
>go to gift it to friend as a joke
>"YOU CANT DO THAT"
>stuck with shitty anime game
And that is how weebs are born

>>375892078
>Console players are still pissing and shitting themselves in rage because PC is the better platform.

>>375896505
oh holy fuck seriously this too

WHAT THE FUCK WHAT ABOUT THE BAD RATS MEME VALVE.. you motherfuckers!!!

>received a Hollow Knight copy from another region as a birthday gift
>told the sender i can't use it and I let him refund it
>tfw no gift replacement

>>375896515
PC is the better platform not because Steam but Skidrow-games.

>go to check reddit steam
>someone quoted my 4chan post


>people with actual reddit accounts post here

>>375898076

Why were you on reddit, huh?

>>375898125
Checking if an official valve account might have posted something.

I don't care because the steam market crashed forever ago. I cashed out in keys and crates for CS:GO and made almost $500 from it on paypal.

>>375898076
>checking Reddit in the first place
You're no better

dude what when does this happen?

>>375898410
Effective immediately