Buying 4-pack as gift for a game I own

[Guidsmaster]

as title, trying to buy a 4-pack of a game I already own in order to give the copies away to friends of mine, however I'm unable to purchase as gift or for myself. Seems like horrible design, any workaround for this?

I believe the 4 pack automatically gives you 1 copy for yourself (let's call it Copy A) and 3 in your inventory to send out (Copy B,C,D) . If I were to create another account and purchase it as a gift, would I still be getting one of those copies (Copy A) or would the gift recipient get the 1 copy (Copy A) along with the 3 inventory copies (B,C,D)?

[J4MESOX4D]

You can permanently remove the licence on your account and then buy the 4 pack.

[Kargor]

I don't know how n-packs work these days -- the inventory-gifts don't exist anymore. But yes, the basic idea was that you buy an "n-pack" for yourself, you get 1 copy, and n-1 gifts.

Assuming they kept the basic mechanic, that hasn't changed. It's just the gifts that are done differently.

As such, you could never give all n copies to other people... however, if one of those persons is a friend or other person that can be trusted, you could gift them the entire n-pack and a list of the other recipients. Upon redeeming it, he gets his 1 copy, and n-1 gifts that he can then forward to the other people.

[Washell]

Don't overthink it. Have one of the friends buy the 4-pack and reimburse him.

[Satoru]

4 packs have never ever allowed you to buy them if you owned the base game

4 packs overall have been deprecated anywya

[Guidsmaster]

Thanks all! I'm international from where my friends are making the reimbursement difficult, so i think best bet will be to gift them steam credit and have them buy it, or log into their account, use my card to buy it and then remove my card info.
@Kargor, unfortunately im not able to gift it at all, which is why i was also considering making a secondary account and seeing if I could then gift it to do as you proposed.
Again, thanks all!

[Cathulhu]

Better not admit you're selling Steam gifts as that is a violation of the Steam Subscriber Agreement and can get your account permanently suspended or even terminated/deleted.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Guidsmaster:

Thanks all! I'm international from where my friends are making the reimbursement difficult, so i think best bet will be to gift them steam credit and have them buy it, or log into their account, use my card to buy it and then remove my card info.
@Kargor, unfortunately im not able to gift it at all, which is why i was also considering making a secondary account and seeing if I could then gift it to do as you proposed.
Again, thanks all!

You can’t gift 4 packs similar how you can’t gift “customized” bundles

There used to be a way you could trick the system into allowing gifting of 4 packs but that was awhile ago.

Because steam doesn’t allow games to be put into inventory, 4 packs have basically fallen out of favor (steam doesn’t allow it as an option for new games) and exploits to allow gifting/storing them have been locked down

[Guidsmaster]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Better not admit you're selling Steam gifts as that is a violation of the Steam Subscriber Agreement and can get your account permanently suspended or even terminated/deleted.

Not sure why you'd think I'm selling anything. I'm trying to buy a game for four friends using a 4-pack. If you're referring to my previous comment when I said "making the reimbursement difficult", I was answering Washell's comment saying to have my friend buy it and I reimburse him. Though through the context of the original post and my next comment, I think it's pretty evident I'm not trying to sell anything.

@Satoru, if games can't be put into inventory, what happens when I buy a 4-pack now? Does it give me a list of recipients to send it to once I purchase the pack, or am I just buying an overpriced single copy?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

You get the game with 3 giftable copies in your inventory.

[Guidsmaster]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

You get the game with 3 giftable copies in your inventory.

:qr:

Ah ok so you do still get the copies in your inventory, good to know, ty!

[Satoru]

Existing 4 packs work the same as the old method

1 copy ALWAYS gets burned to the purchasers account

3 copies go into your inventory

My post was more in reference that new games no longer can sell 4 packs as an option. That’s why you don’t really see them anymore except for old titles