The 5 dollar rule.

[Out Of Bubblegum]

I can buy a Steam gift card to add to a brand new account. That should give the account the ability to post. Can I spend that wallet money to buy gifts to give to a different account? What happens if I have no purchased games and the wallet goes under $5?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Adding the funds yourself is good enough. No need to spend it.

As long as it is not a digital gift card sent from Steam itself.

[Out Of Bubblegum]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Adding the funds yourself is good enough. No need to spend it.

OK. But the least amount I see is $20. I want to spend that on something. Not just let it sit there forever.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

You can freely gift a game to your alt/main as long as you are friends on Steam.

[Washell]

Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:

What happens if I have no purchased games and the wallet goes under $5?

It tracks money spent/added, not money present. You'll be fine. Though it is a bit surprising that after all this time you suddenly feel the need for an alt to post here.

[lightwo]

Here's everything you can and can't do to lift restrictions on a fresh account.
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3330-IAGK-7663

[Out Of Bubblegum]

Originally posted by Washell:

Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:

What happens if I have no purchased games and the wallet goes under $5?

It tracks money spent/added, not money present. You'll be fine. Though it is a bit surprising that after all this time you suddenly feel the need for an alt to post here.

I get cranky sometimes and get banned. Just making a backup. I can get crankier on the throw away account

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

System tracks what you load in your wallet, or buy something via Steam store using external payment method, that isn't gifted to you via Steam from another account, nor redeeming game keys.

So example, you bought a game that $5.01 via Steam store, the system knows you spent $5.01, and makes your account unlimited, even if your Steam wallet $0 it going off what you have put towards your account, such as buying something, or loading your wallet, not anything else.

Now if you're using a currency that not USD, and conversation rate was just enough to hit $5 USD worth but one day your currency conversion fell, and reported amount converted is less than $5 usd worth, then that be why might be limited again, only had to spend, or load wallet a bit more to get over the $5 USD worth.

Let say your country currency was AUD, and you spent exactly just enough to be worth $5.01 USD, and one day the AUD fell compare to USD, and worth is now only $4.98, you only need to spend $0.02 UsD worth on account to be back at $5 USD worth again. See where this is going, so if you threw $20 on Steam wallet, or bought something that $10 you wouldn't need to worry about this at all about the conversation rate from said currency, to USD, as you know it always be above $5 worth, unless it went to hell like Turkey, Argentina, or etc...