Valve changed their gift buying/sending rules, and now restricts you from sending gifts to players in other countries. What the hell are they on now? At least there's a petition for it to revert it, so that's something... https://www.change.org/p/valve-corporation-valve-please-bring-back-previous-gift-system-on-steam
But seriously, why aren't people more mad about this? A lot of the steam users I know are antisocial people who's only friends are other antisocial people from other countries who they met online. I can't even send games to my girlfriend who lives in the states. That's just absurd!!
>Petition Race
>At least there's a petition
yea because those always work.
>>381234664
no reason to petition when piracy exists
Valve is using their monopoly position to impose worse and worse shit.
That's why I buy only DRM-free or don't buy at all if you know what I mean
>>381234664
The only point to do that was getting games out of ingame acquired items through trades.
Never used it desu, yet i saw plenty of people in tf2 outpost stockpiling games they bought in sales just to resell them later.
>>381234664
Money doesnt have the same valuein all the countries,some games are cheaper and valve want you to pay full price for it, now suck that valve dick hard
can't you just give the steam code you retard
>>381234664
because """"gamers"""" are literal retards who literally zero memory.
steam and valve could literally shit in their bed and they'd be like OMG STEAM SUMMER SALE THANKS GABEN XDDD LE PC MASTER RICE!!!!
yes OP, they are extremely jewish. since that day, I buy everything from g2a, gog, humble bundle or other places so that valve doesn't get a cent from my purchases, and I use their bandwith.
>>381234664
>I can't even send games to my girlfriend who lives in the states
>>381239385
subtle
>>381234664
Fuck off ruskie, we all know how badly it was abused by resellers
>buy 100 games during steam summer sale
>wait 4 months
>sell all those games on key sellers sites for twice what you paid
Does this mean I can actually start putting stuff in my wishlist again without having to worry about my clingy Canadian friend immediately buying all of it? If so thank fuck
>>381240231
I wish I had a clingy Canadian friend to buy me games
>>381240000
Don't forget
>buys all the games in a currency that gives you another 10% off
>>381234664
That's pretty shit since I used to do this a lot.
These days my steam account is already tied to another much cheaper country that I have a bank account in so at least my games are as cheap as possible.
>Bringing up G2A
>They don't use inventory gifts, they use steam CD keys
Really activates the almonds
>>381234664
>??
>!!
>Petition
Yup, this is bait. Sage'd and bagged.
>>381234664
>change.org
When will this fucking meme die?
>>381241146
Nigger, cd keys are country locked too.
>>381234664
Just shut up and take it up the ass. You allowed Valve to take over your hobby. Deal with it.
>>381234664
I just heard about this and holy fuck does it make me a salty pretzel.
removing gifts was totally unnecessary and just serves to limit consumer freedom
>>381241513
Can someone buy me a gift on my wishlist if they're in the US and I'm in the UK through the same direct store stuff they always have?
>>381241146
THIS
>>381241869
And when is this getting implemented? My friend bought me the new McMillen game just this week and he's over in the US.
>>381241634
I'll give you a salty pretzel.
>>381241983
Months ago. Every time I try to buy for England it says the price difference is too high.
Must have been just that one game that worked.
>>381242153
I've had about 4 games gifted in the past 3 months, all from people in the US so I'm not too sure about that.
I'm fairly certain this is just an extension of the ROW games system people already have in place for gifting blyatbuck bought games to other users.
>ruskies, chinamen and BR abuse a gifting system
>gets removed to protect profits
i dont see a problem here
>>381243980
3rd worlders ruining shit for everyone else, again.
>>381238237
no, because those are region locked as well, you retard.
>>381245550
They're the reason Valve won't let us play matchmaking without our phone numbers and credit cards
>>381245761
Fucking third worlders, breathing our oxygen...
>Spend years hyping up Steam, Valve, and Gaben has holy and perfect beings and let them take over PC gaming.
>Suddenly you can't do shit when they inevitability fuck you over because you gave them so much market share.
Eat shit, you dug your own grave with the LE EPIC VALVE XDD meme
>>381242019
thx m8 i was hungry
>>381246137
No problemo.
>>381234664
Fuck the new system, Cant gift, cant do shit with it. I understand the not wanting people to resell shit but the way they did it just gimps the entire system. Even just removing the ability to store in inventory would have stopped that. I cant buy a game for a UK friend because of a 60 cents price difference, I am not trying to scam you steam, let me pay the difference in price atleast, hell paypal has its own conversions build right fucking in.
This probably has more to do with international law and producers being afraid of grey market key selling than the typical Valve bullshit.
>can no longer do /v/ summersale giveaways
:(
It's literally all because of subhuman CS:GOtards wanting to smurf and/or aimbot. Competitive FPS was a mistake.
>>381247667
MOBAs and trash like CS:GO ruined Valve and therefore ruined Steam.
>>381238958
and /v/ is filled to the brim with these "omgsteamsale"-retards as well
>>381235864
look at it and weep for the future
and when the actual sale comes around we're gonna have 50% of the threads filled with gaben cock sucking subhumans