Buying Bundles that i own as a gift?

[DeadlyBGShadow]

It seams i can't buy bundles as a gift if i own them?
What's up with that?

It is saying the bundle is personalized for my account and can't be bought or that it's meant to be bought whole as when you don't own one of the games and such (which i intend to do).

But when buying gifts i don't personalize them to my account other than to add them to my Inventory, and i don't regard what games i have that are part of it, i buy it for other people and there own Library.
And Region Lock have nothing to do here!

So first Steam reinvents the whole definition of buying bulk (big quantity of games) at a discount by treating them unseparable as a pack of licences instead of individual ones,
And then they force me to do ♥♥♥♥ as asking for a persons Steam Log-In information in order to gift them a game? (I don't do that but what other option people have?)

And don't say gift card, because finding great deals for gifts is part of the process.
Until the time the person uses the card the game may not be in discount and that defeats the purpose of the gift. If i own the game and you target me as a customer again with discounts it is so that i can see it as great deal for gift present.

Steam needs to pull there head from there asses and hire a competent Business Director.
They need to regard steam as a regular goods store with great services and earn money from normal transactions not some shady practises like stealing keys from paying people because they already have it in the library and such as with packages. And it took them long enough to admit it.
Hope it won't take again that long to get there ♥♥♥♥ together and do things right.
Because they really tend to take there time fixing real problems.

Don't send me to other retailer to get games i can get otherwise from you.

[ KARR™]

The bundles themselves are made by the PUBLISHERS of the game, not by Valve - so you're venting at the wrong people.

Also, "bundles" are personalised to your account, it is a price for YOU that removes the games you already own. You only buy the games you don't have. - This can't be gifted.

Aside from the bundle, there are also "packages" that you can buy that are groups of games or the individual "apps" themselves that you can buy one by one. - These can both be gifted.

Both the packages and apps can be gifted and do NOT require any log in details of other users. You can gift to them as a friend inside Steam, or to their email address if they are not on Steam itself.

[DeadlyBGShadow]

Valve Complete Pack http://store.steampowered.com/bundle/232/
Grand Theft Auto Collection http://store.steampowered.com/sub/28987/

and a lot more are affected by this they dont have "Purchase as a gift" or "Add to Cart" Button, or should i say it's grayed out and not working.
Bundles is a new consept that just now came to life in order to addres the "stealing keys from paying people because they already have it in the library and such as with packages" problem.
But now i can't gift Games that where package once.

And pricing for bundle have nothing to do with what games you own when you by it for gift as a whole. Maybe they should add Gift check mark for this kind of thing but coming from me and not them is just saying they are not doing there job.

PS: There are retailers right now that are offering the same Bundles/Packs for Steam but here you can't buy them, The place of origin!?
They need to do better than that.

PS2: Yes, Bundles are aranged and placed by Publishers. But they use the Tools Steam Provides and there is something wrong with them if i can't do a simple thing as the abovementioned.
If you use a Web Page Creator and it is flowed in it's design and makes certain actions unusable that otherwise should have been. It's the Creator of the Web Page Creator program that's at fault.

PS3:The Log-In information part was a condescending joke to say i have to have access to the Steam Account of the person in question and buy it using my Visa/Credit Card or it's not feasible using Steam Store. Otherwise i know how the Gift mechanics work or i wouldn't complain about them.

[tomk1]

Trine Bundle has this problem.
-if you have no Trine games you can buy bundle as gift.
-if you have 1 game you cant buy bundle as gift.
-if you have 1 game that game is discounted from bundle, so you can buy rest of collection.

The Dev/publisher doesn't understand, they want to sell the games, so the problem is with steam.

It appears that bundle deals are one offs
edit: Opps sorry i'm wrong i edited "me put horse before checking cart"

Because the contents of Trinelogy are personalized for your account, it cannot be purchased as a gift.

[Tev]

To sum it up, dynamic bundles, or in otherwords [COMPLETE YOUR COLLECTION!] -bundles aren't giftable.

It's silly because some games don't offer regular bundles anymore, like Skyrim.

i.e. This works:
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/49738/

This doesn't:
http://store.steampowered.com/bundle/362/

One is a sub (solid price); the other is a bundle (dynamic).

[DeadlyBGShadow]

Some people don't understand the problem that i talk about.
Games that where once "Pack" and where giftable converted to "Bundles" that came to be because of the inconvinience for collectors who have some of the games and loose them on purchase, because Steam and Developer don't approve owning multiple licences of a product.

Now that Bundles are growing, Packs that where a great giftable item are now rarity and there is no alternative. I have to Buy all games separately instead of in one Pack like Valve Complete Pack and with no discount at that.

There are legit sites that sell the packs and you can gift them, but you can't get the same product from steam, the site that generates such packs, this is more than SILLY i would say.

Such marketing incompetence is not a laughing matter, days when you buy steam keys from anywhere but not steam is a bad day for steam and may have detrimental effect for the platform in the future. As a person owning over 1400 games this makes me angry to say the least.

PS:For the record I buy almost all of my games from retailers and this will make me avoid the Steam Store even more.

[Tev]

I actually just said that it's silly that i.e. Skyrim doesn't offer alternatives. So much for buying the Legendary Edition as a gift for anyone.

[pike]

so your trying to go into business by selling games you bought cheap in bulk and bundle and steam isnt letting you

[DeadlyBGShadow]

Paying customers should not be regarded as thieves.
If Steam and Devs don't like the money they make and consider they should have earned more they have to make an effort and not point fingers at ppl, and certanly don't sell for less than they regard undervaluing.

I regard such buyers as more deserving than the publisher/Steam because they work in order to sell the product they invested in, unlike others that don't make an effort to fix such problems like this one.
The Dev would not have found a client where it not for the "seller" that initialy bought the game and worked for the difference in order to find a customer.
/!Disclaimer!\ Not counting the games bought with stolen Money.

No i DON'T want to sell games after discount.
But Depriving me from licence i pay for as they do with Packs is also Unacceptable in my oppinion.
And making up for it by taking my ability to gift great Bundles/Packs is also Unacceptable.

The sad thing is I can do All of the above elsewhere so your argument of Business relation is irrelevent.

PS: I am in favor of FREE-DRM games because i regard games like a phisical product on the digital platform.
And I would like for all Developers of Games/Books/Movies/Music and such to put there product on a unified global server system that is used by Steam or Others to sell there products and if i would like i could use them regardless what platform i use because i payed for it.
The Licence to be on my ID Card and i could own several such and i could transfer them to another person if i wanted to.

[buddhabuddy]

Originally posted by pike:

so your trying to go into business by selling games you bought cheap in bulk and bundle and steam isnt letting you

Sorry, but that is BS. You have no understanding of the issue. No one is trying to sell anything, just gift it to a friend.

I want to buy a bundle for my daughter's account. I don't have ANY of the games, so this Bundle isn't even personalized in any way, yet I can't gift it.

It is pure laziness on Steam's part. It shouldn't even matter if I have any of the games. They could easily add a "buy as gift" checkbox on the Bundle page, or warn that the price will be recalculated when gifted. They don't even need to calculate the bundle based on the giftee's account, just charge full price, and add a note to that effect. They are losing sales based on laziness and stupidity.

[wuddih]

these bundles are purely for the purchasers own account, so gifting was and will never be an option. if you have a problem with not being able to buy a certain "compilation of store items" as a gift, please contact the developer/publisher of said items to create a package for those.

has nothing to do with "Steams lazyness" because those bundles and packages are done be the dev/pub.

[Spawn of Totoro]

People complained about buying bundles and not getting all the games they paid for. This is the result. You can now get dynamic bundles, but you can no longer gift them. It is a give and take situation. People got something they wanted, and lost something they had.

It is up to the developer if they wish to offer such bundles or not. Valve only provided them with the tools to do so.