The new gifting rules are absolutely lame!

[Kdawg]

Seriously just trying to buy Raft for a friend in another country who has been gaming with us for a while but due to personal reasons they cant afford it right now. I've never known about this rule change, which apparently happened in 2017, until now.

Honestly this was just stupid, if you wanted to do this for regions that would have insanely LARGE price differences, sure, but to do it between Canada and the US is just dumb.

[cringE]

People were probably abusing it for discounts

[ShelLuser]

You can always buy 'm a digital gift card, then they can use those funds to get the game.

[Paratech2008]

I used Fanatical to do that.

[Chompman]

At this moment one Canada dollar is worth about .79 US dollars so that's a decent gap.

[Lunacy]

Originally posted by Chompman:

At this moment one Canada dollar is worth about .79 US dollars so that's a decent gap.

this game in particular is like a $2 difference

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by Lunacy:

Originally posted by Chompman:

At this moment one Canada dollar is worth about .79 US dollars so that's a decent gap.

this game in particular is like a $2 difference

It's actually a $2.77 difference, as CDN$21.99 is equal to US$17.27. That makes it a 12.44% difference between US and CAN which exceeds the 10% threshold and prevents gifting between the two regions.

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$2 difference is small to you... but if 1 million units
get sold for $2 less.... thats like a loss of $600k
for steam.. and about $1.4mil for the dev..

[Kdawg]

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

You can always buy 'm a digital gift card, then they can use those funds to get the game.

i was using money from my steam wallet and you cant buy a steam gift card with money in your wallet.

Again STUPID!!!

[Trollhammer]

Originally posted by kdawg:

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

You can always buy 'm a digital gift card, then they can use those funds to get the game.

i was using money from my steam wallet and you cant buy a steam gift card with money in your wallet.

Again STUPID!!!

Your inability to understand why some measures are in place doesn't make them "stupid".

[Chompman]

Originally posted by kdawg:

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

You can always buy 'm a digital gift card, then they can use those funds to get the game.

i was using money from my steam wallet and you cant buy a steam gift card with money in your wallet.

Again STUPID!!!

That's done to prevent wallet abuse by sending money from your wallet to others with stolen accounts or illegally bought funds.

[shadowflash]

I wish Valve just took GOG approach to gifting between countries. Regional prices exist for a reason - salaries and cost of living is different between countries, but if someone from a country with cheapest price will have to pay either destination country's price or average US price that can effectively block the abuse of things people did in the past - like when a dude from a country with very high salaries looks for the cheapest sale prices country, finds someone from there, offers him 200 bucks from 3000 he'll have to spend on games and buying a few hundred games ezpz. What GOG did is simple - gifts have universal price (US price i think).

[nullable]

So, buy all your gifts on GoG.

[Tito Shivan]

Unfortunately far too many people decided to make a business out of gifting Steam games from cheaper regions to the more expensive ones.

Originally posted by shadowflash:

I wish Valve just took GOG approach to gifting between countries.

GOG doesn't have the number of users or available titles Steam has, so they can use a different approach. Keep in mind GOG's policy is grounded on the fact too many popular releases aren't even sold there due to DRM.

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Originally posted by shadowflash:

I wish Valve just took GOG approach to gifting between countries. Regional prices exist for a reason - salaries and cost of living is different between countries, but if someone from a country with cheapest price will have to pay either destination country's price or average US price that can effectively block the abuse of things people did in the past - like when a dude from a country with very high salaries looks for the cheapest sale prices country, finds someone from there, offers him 200 bucks from 3000 he'll have to spend on games and buying a few hundred games ezpz. What GOG did is simple - gifts have universal price (US price i think).

Here's what you do. Look at other users. Blame them for abusing the old system.

[Pheex]

I understand how the system was abused and rules had to be put in place but it really sucks for the average player like op trying to gift to a friend

people will always abuse the system for a buck, we literally can't have nice things :\