Gifting to another region

[Python]

I want to gift a game to a friend in another region, i'm in France and he is in Switzerland.... is there a way for me to gift a game to him?

[Houtworm]

You should be able to just gift it no problem :)

[Python]

I cant for some reason, lemme try again and tell u what it says

[Python]

"Due to regional price differences, the gift you are trying to send cannot be sent to the recipient's region."

[x_wing]

Unless the prices on your region are higher than the ones on your friend region, you cannot do the gift. It's a limitation in order to avoid a black market between regions.

[Houtworm]

Hmm, that's new for me, I gifted a bunch of games, But never to someone in Switzerland I guess. I guess it is not possible then, keys are also region locked. You could get lucky, But it is not worth the risk, It might be best to just transfer some money then.

It would be nice if Steam offered the gifter to pay the difference so the giftee gets a regional gift :)

[Python]

Thank you for your help :)

[SIGKILL]

Valve did this a while back because companies were exploiting regional price differences.

For example, there were a couple companies in Russia that would allow you to 'buy' a game from them, which they would purchase as a 'gift' for you, at a lower regional price than your own. So now certain regional transfers are blocked.

This is not a Linux-related issue.

[Aoi Blue]

Some keys are region locked, some aren't.

Keys you buy on 3rd party sites are far more likely to be region locked.

Valve should require all sites licensed to sell keys (including themselves) list region restrictions on gifting.

As a note, make sure to buy a gift key, not a regular key. Gift keys are far less likely to be region locked.

[Python]

Thank you everyone

[BDAKiwi]

I'm in NZ and a friend of mine in the US recently gifted me a game. I've just tried to gift him a different game and this 'region' crap turned up. It would surely make more sense to limit the number of gifts rather than a blanket region block? I'm pretty bloody annoyed, I've had this account ever since Steam was created, without any issue with purchases before.
Valve, you can do better than this. Pi$$ing off your user base because you couldn't be bothered figuring out how to stop the exploiting is not cool.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by BDAKiwi:

I'm in NZ and a friend of mine in the US recently gifted me a game. I've just tried to gift him a different game and this 'region' crap turned up. It would surely make more sense to limit the number of gifts rather than a blanket region block? I'm pretty bloody annoyed, I've had this account ever since Steam was created, without any issue with purchases before.
Valve, you can do better than this. Pi$$ing off your user base because you couldn't be bothered figuring out how to stop the exploiting is not cool.

Different games have different prices. The regional difference from one game to another is not going to be the same as they are all set independently by the game publishers, not Valve.

[SIGKILL]

Again, not a Linux issue; not the place to complain about or discuss it =)

[м]

basically,

expensive region to same price region or lower price region works.

cheaper region to expensive region doesn't work.

[SIGKILL]

Originally posted by BDAKiwi:

Originally posted by (LINUX) Hot Sick:

Again, not a Linux issue; not the place to complain about or discuss it =)

Errrr... the OP is about regional gifting, not about Linux

This was originally posted in the Steam On Linux forums. Looks like the mods very recently ninja moved it after being reported multiple times.

[Dank Kitty the Dog Slayer]

i am having the same problem and now viruses are showing up!