Can't gift this?

[Jaguar]

I am trying to send this as a gift to a friend in the USA. I am in Canada. Apparently it is region restricted on this level? That's crazy, somebody needs to call Steam and give them a thwack on the nose.

[Liobuster]

because theres always a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ somewhere that thinks: "hey capitalism is a great thing so lets exploit this (and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ other friendly people over doing so) to make profit"

[LanPartyGuy]

Originally posted by Liobuster:

because theres always a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ somewhere that thinks: "hey capitalism is a great thing so lets exploit this (and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ other friendly people over doing so) to make profit"

Well, it might open a window for black market reselling allowing to make an illegal bargain. On the other hand, there is no real reason to restrict gifting a game from Canada to the US.

I gifted a game to Turkey recently and it worked but the item was only 1€.

For additional information you can look at Deep Rocks steamdb entry that shows the prices. As you can see, American Dollar is their base currency of which regional prices are derived. I can imagine, thinking of it as a downward gifting possibility, we can assume that any region can gift a game to any other region with a cheaper price, not the other way around.

https://steamdb.info/app/548430/

[Jaguar]

The above is all nonsense. This was Steam's lazy way of dealing with bulk purchasers, they punished the consumers like you and like me by simply turning off the ability to gift across regions (which you could do in the past and it would DETECT if you could not trade specific games between regions).

It's okay, I bought it from the Humble Store and gifted it already. Not a single issue. Tough titties Steam, no % for you!

[LanPartyGuy]

Yes, it's regulated in a lazy way. I just wanted to point out that steams limitation probably follows financial reasons. On the other hand it's simply preventing abuse to the system for a massive inconvenience of everyday people.

[LanPartyGuy]

Originally posted by Schwersaltz:

Let's take US and Turkey for this one. The game costs 25$ in US which equals to 116≈ Turkish lira (really high price for a game). The game only costs 39 Turkish lira in Turkey (average price). Currently, one 1 U.S dollar equals to 4.6515955 Turkish lira. Enough said, this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Yes, and turkish people have to earn their living income in lira... If the prices were not regionally different, players would be discriminated and could not afford the game at all. Most of you guys seem to be missing the point of steams economic decisions behind this. And yes, it is a pain in the ass, considering Canada to US gifting is not possible.

[Jaguar]

The Canada-US region is irrelevant in the "region" debate on Steam. The exchage rate is freely available from multiple real-time sources for them to simply display the converted price from the US price. It's like saying Portugal or Greece, in the EU, don't get to be part of the EU region on Steam because they have a lower income than Germany or Sweden -- yet they are the same region for "region locked" games.

Every other online game seller is able to convert currencies, ever other reailter is able to convert currencies. It's up to the consumer if they can afford to buy from those retailer or not. The US-Turkey comparision simply doesn't apply to the US-Canada region issue on Steam.

[Liobuster]

jaguar :3
u must have overread the important part isnt pure currencyconversion but actual price changes

look again at the example of the turkish lira
though im with you that neighbouring countries shouldnt be blocked
and as a funny addition swiss people are regionlocked too at times because they are not EU
cheers