Bundles unavailable if you own anything

[Teefu]

So are you just screwed from getting a bundle if you already own one item now? I was looking at a bundle and back awhile ago if you already owned an item it would minus the cost from the bundle (this is a bundle not a package) doesn't seem like that happens anymore, so I figured maybe they changed it so it reduces the extra price at checkout and it gave me a warning that I would not receive an extra copy of the game I already own and upon hitting okay it then told me I already owned a game in my cart and thus could not purchase for myself until I deleted the item. Only thing in my cart was the bundle.

[Mr.Heroin]

ye ik this is a garbage, like in Don't Starve Together OR THE GAMES WHITCH ARE GIVING YOU A COPY FOR A FRIEND you can buy the game and a copy ,and if you own the game you must gift the game and the copy cuz you can't keep the copy, WHITCH YOU PURCASED FROM YOUR MONEY!

[Teefu]

Yeah thats is why it was so good when you could have games in your inventory(or wherever it was before you redeemed them after purchasing them), I could buy the friends multi pack and save the extra copies till i knew which friends would be interested in them/would play with me, but of course they did away with that too.

[Kargor]

You could NEVER buy an "n-pack" if you already owned the game; that's nothing new.

Back then, if you bought a "4-pack", you'd get one copy for yourself, and 3 inventory items. If you already owned that game, you couldn't buy the 4-pack for yourself, you could only buy it as a gift (but that was confusing for people who didn't understand the system).

"n-packs" are not bundles, though. Bundles are several different items combined into one purchase; if you already own something you can still buy the bundle -- the duplicate item(s) will just get lost. Again, that's nothing new -- bundles NEVER gave you a gift for duplicate items.

At some point they introduced a new type of bundle, where instead of duplicates just getting lost, the bundle would instead get a lower price. For technical reasons, this kind of bundle can't be gifted (because the shop system doesn't learn about the recipient until late in the process, so it can't know the price).

[Teefu]

No one said anything about not being able to buy a 4 pack or whatever. I was just adding in another ♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing steam changed getting rid of the saving your games to redeem later.

I can't buy a BUNDLE, since I own a game in it. I literally said that. "and upon hitting okay it then told me I already owned a game in my cart and thus could not purchase for myself until I deleted the item. Only thing in my cart was the bundle."