Bundle prevents gifting to friends - need standalone purchase option

[Roy-7]

There needs to be a non-bundled purchase option. The bundle is preventing people from buying this game as a gift for their friends.

[Toad Wizard]

I'm actually really bummed I can't buy it for a friend because we've completed the first one together and I was planning to surprise them with the second one and play it together over the weekend. Hope they bring out a separate non-bundle option.

[parrott675]

ya same issue here

[Razzle]

Originally posted by Toad Wizard:

I'm actually really bummed I can't buy it for a friend because we've completed the first one together and I was planning to surprise them with the second one and play it together over the weekend. Hope they bring out a separate non-bundle option.

send them a steam gift card directly through steam so they can buy it themselves if they are stuck on money
https://store.steampowered.com/digitalgiftcards/?snr=1_4_4__125

[Razzle]

They Devs should really add a nonbundle option so we can gift this

[Clearwood]

According to the store page "LAUNCH BONUS
Grab a friend and blast-off in May with exclusive limited-time Steam launch perks. Purchase Revenge of the Savage Planet within the first month of launch to receive the Trash Panda Suit and a bonus copy of Journey to the Savage Planet.  This buy-one-get-one bundle is only available on Steam and for the first month of launch." you should get a "bonus copy" or "buy-one-get-one bundle"? The wording is really confusing. Do I buy one bundle and get a 2nd bundle free or do I just get another copy of the game free to gift?

[No' Name]

Originally posted by Clearwood:

According to the store page "LAUNCH BONUS
Grab a friend and blast-off in May with exclusive limited-time Steam launch perks. Purchase Revenge of the Savage Planet within the first month of launch to receive the Trash Panda Suit and a bonus copy of Journey to the Savage Planet.  This buy-one-get-one bundle is only available on Steam and for the first month of launch." you should get a "bonus copy" or "buy-one-get-one bundle"? The wording is really confusing. Do I buy one bundle and get a 2nd bundle free or do I just get another copy of the game free to gift?

You get another copy of the FIRST game "JOURNEY to Savage planet". Not this game "REVENGE to Savage Planet"

[Clearwood]

So Revenge to Savage Planet is a new game?

[Roy-7]

Yes, Revenge is the sequel to Journey. A brand new game. And you can't buy it without buying the bundle, whether you have the original game or not. Meaning you can't add it to your cart a second time and buy it for a friend. Because after you own the whole bundle - which is the only way to buy the brand new sequel - you can't add it to your cart again to gift it.

So because its only part of a bundle, you can't buy it for anyone but yourself (as per the topic of this discussion).

[No' Name]

Originally posted by Roy-7:

Yes, Revenge is the sequel to Journey. A brand new game. And you can't buy it without buying the bundle, whether you have the original game or not. Meaning you can't add it to your cart a second time and buy it for a friend. Because after you own the whole bundle - which is the only way to buy the brand new sequel - you can't add it to your cart again to gift it.

So because its only part of a bundle, you can't buy it for anyone but yourself (as per the topic of this discussion).

Kind of funny, because they actually would have made even more sales if they just sold the game, and not bundled it. So many people were willing to gift this game to a friend, just to play coop.

they must think making an Extra $20 because they bundled it, was worth it, and clearly a good amount of people are not happy about it.

[qwerm]

Originally posted by No' Name:

Originally posted by Roy-7:

Yes, Revenge is the sequel to Journey. A brand new game. And you can't buy it without buying the bundle, whether you have the original game or not. Meaning you can't add it to your cart a second time and buy it for a friend. Because after you own the whole bundle - which is the only way to buy the brand new sequel - you can't add it to your cart again to gift it.

So because its only part of a bundle, you can't buy it for anyone but yourself (as per the topic of this discussion).

Kind of funny, because they actually would have made even more sales if they just sold the game, and not bundled it. So many people were willing to gift this game to a friend, just to play coop.

they must think making an Extra $20 because they bundled it, was worth it, and clearly a good amount of people are not happy about it.

This is more of a Steam problem than a developer problem, since steam blocks you from purchasing a bundle for other than yourself.

I get that it would have made sense for the devs to include a separate single buy option, but for the time being the core issue is steam side and the developers possibly hadn't considered a problem like this occurring- we just don't know whether the devs knew of this limitation.

Our best bet is to make noise and bring attention to the issue; I imagine Raccoon Logic will be happy to rectify the issue once they understand why this problem exists for their current arrangement of purchase options as it does very much affect their bottom line.

[Clearwood]

Originally posted by Roy-7:

Yes, Revenge is the sequel to Journey. A brand new game. And you can't buy it without buying the bundle, whether you have the original game or not. Meaning you can't add it to your cart a second time and buy it for a friend. Because after you own the whole bundle - which is the only way to buy the brand new sequel - you can't add it to your cart again to gift it.

So because its only part of a bundle, you can't buy it for anyone but yourself (as per the topic of this discussion).

Then why do they say you get a "bonus copy" and a "This buy-one-get-one bundle" on the store page? It's super confusing if I just need to buy 2 copies so be it. They don't need to tell people you'll get a free copy and not give it to you.

[Beans]

Not buying any copies of the game because I only want to buy it as a gift to play through with a friend. They need to fix this!