Steam Gifting restrictions?

[WALTER WHITE]

Is it true a friend has to be 3 days on friend list to be able to gift them a steam gift (a game from store)?

[F.E.A.R.]

Mby idk

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Phoenix:

Is it true a friend has to be 3 days on friend list to be able to gift them a steam gift (a game from store)?

Gifting games does not have that restriction, no.

[WALTER WHITE]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Phoenix:

Is it true a friend has to be 3 days on friend list to be able to gift them a steam gift (a game from store)?

Gifting games does not have that restriction, no.

:summercat2023:

then why there is an error everything I try to gift a game to a newly friend.

[Suitc]

Sometimes there are errors that can occur based on regional costs/restrictions of the game.

I.e a game is on sale here and I try gifting it to a friend from a different country, unable to do so due to the cost difference being significant.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Phoenix:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Gifting games does not have that restriction, no.

then why there is an error everything I try to gift a game to a newly friend.

Completely different issue.

If you are trying to use wallet funds to purchase the game gift, contact support and ask them to look into the gifting flag on your account.

Wait on their response.

Or just use an external payment method to purchase the game gift.

Originally posted by Suitc:

Sometimes there are errors that can occur based on regional costs/restrictions of the game.

I.e a game is on sale here and I try gifting it to a friend from a different country, unable to do so due to the cost difference being significant.

It would specify that as a reason, not give a generic error.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Goku:

Originally posted by Phoenix:

Is it true a friend has to be 3 days on friend list to be able to gift them a steam gift (a game from store)?

No, the more you purchase games on store the more you can gift to your friend , if you have used 10$ on store then you can only gift 8$
watch this : SPAM

First part of the video, you mentioned different region pricing which would actually give you a completely different error message stating it is due to that.

Second part is the gifting flag using wallet funds that has nothing to do with purchase amount. You even tell people to change the payment type from the wallet to an external payment method, which circles back to the first part, the gifting flag using wallet funds.

Quite misleading and not really informative.