can't purchase any game

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Your account already owns some of the above items, so you can’t purchase them again. You can purchase these items as a gift or adjust the contents of your cart to continue.
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[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Means you can't buy them, because you own them already, what was unclear?

If you're saying you can't buy games you do not own on the account already, then you may have a cache issue, delete your cache. Top right of Steam client > Click on "Steam" > Click on "Settings" > Click on "Web broswer" now delete cache, and reload the page, or restart client, then try again.

This will teach you more about your Steam library.
https://imgur.com/uGcvaX4

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forgot to mention that I do not own any of the games.
anyhow it is working now thx :)

[wrfeldmann]

I cleared Cache (Safari) and went to purchase a game I own but I want to purchase it as a gift. Both buttons are "grayed" out. Can't purchase from browser (Safari) or within the Steam App on my Mac

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by wrfeldmann:

I cleared Cache (Safari) and went to purchase a game I own but I want to purchase it as a gift. Both buttons are "grayed" out. Can't purchase from browser (Safari) or within the Steam App on my Mac

You cannot gift bundles that is tailored for your account.
https://imgur.com/8A95pOo

[wrfeldmann]

Seems odd. If I don't own the game I can buy a 4 pack, but if i enjoy the game, I can't purchase a 4 pack and gift it to my friends. That make me very sad.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by wrfeldmann:

Seems odd. If I don't own the game I can buy a 4 pack, but if i enjoy the game, I can't purchase a 4 pack and gift it to my friends. That make me very sad.

You can gift funds to your friend to buy the pack, and gift the remaining to your other friends.
https://store.steampowered.com/digitalgiftcards/

Please note Steam wallet funds can not be transfer to other accounts.

[wrfeldmann]

No, I received the game as a gift. I wanted to purchase it and send it to 4 friends. I can't do that. That is not a good system if you ask me. Kind of defeats the purpose if you ask me.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by wrfeldmann:

No, I received the game as a gift. I wanted to purchase it and send it to 4 friends. I can't do that. That is not a good system if you ask me. Kind of defeats the purpose if you ask me.

That's just how it works. The 1st copy always goes to the person that buying it no matter what, the remaining you can gift to your friends, that how packs works on Steam.

It's best just gifting the funds to your friend, which then you'll have all 4 of your friends to have their own copy. If you want to rebuy game for your account, simply go to Steam support page, type in the search for your game name, let say you want to remove Pay Day 2, you type in the search "Pay Day 2" and it will bring it up, click on the game, then choose want to remove from your account, then go buy the pack, and then gift the 3 other copies to your friends.

It's up to you how you want do this, or don't do it at all.

[wrfeldmann]

With a bit more digging I found out the real reason. If 4-Packs were on super sale, people could purchase them like crazy and the sell them on e-bay or elsewhere. I'm sure there are ways around this if you really want to try and do this.

Steam is penalizing honest people to stop that from happening. They should allow you to purchase 1 4-pack and then stop anymore purchases. Then someone just trying to get together with friends wouldn't be so frustrated.

Also, during this worldwide pandemic, it might be nice to break that rule for a while. Steam would probably get even more users if it relaxed some of their rules right now.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by wrfeldmann:

With a bit more digging I found out the real reason. If 4-Packs were on super sale, people could purchase them like crazy and the sell them on e-bay or elsewhere. I'm sure there are ways around this if you really want to try and do this.

Steam is penalizing honest people to stop that from happening. They should allow you to purchase 1 4-pack and then stop anymore purchases. Then someone just trying to get together with friends wouldn't be so frustrated.

Also, during this worldwide pandemic, it might be nice to break that rule for a while. Steam would probably get even more users if it relaxed some of their rules right now.

They made this change years ago, yes Steam made this change due to people trying to profit off this, that is why they no longer allow you to buy games to store in your Inventory, or buy packs to be stored in your Inventory.

Steam not going to lift this change, ever due to those that want to abuse this, doesn't matter if you being an honest person, or not. Steam not willing to put up with trouble that will cause major problems, as they're not going to allow people trying to make profit off someone game, nor allow people to laundry money, which someone did try to laundry using this method by getting their game on Steam, then try to buy as much of their own game using the gift in Inventory, which yes Steam caught on very quickly when they saw a large sum of funds coming out of no where, and was very obvious most of it being gift to Inventory. If Steam didn't stop this, they would be force to shutdown due to allowing money laundering.

Sure there ways people will try to scam people, or con people, but this is not solvable for any store. Steam has gifting restrictions, such as currency differences, as if friend from another country using another currency than you, and the price, and currency differences is greater than 10% will prevent you from gifting to that person, which again also another thing which people try to abuse such as regional pricing, which harms the game sales. Another gifting restriction is buy, and gifting ratio, which is a system that was added I believe last year, this does add inconvenience to people, but this also disrupt people trying to scam/con people by gifting, forcing them to make new accounts, and if they make a pattern, using same credit card, they can target them, and black list the credit card, if they deem was being used for fraudulent activities, trying to catch them ahead of time, before they try to charge back.

Anyways your goal is to gift to 4 friends, which your only answer is this, gift friend the funds, friend get his/her copy, as well gifting the remaining 3 other friends you wanted to gift to, which give you the same ending result you wanted. If don't want to do that, then nothing can be done about it.

If you want, try looking towards 3rd party key resell sites, such as humble bundle, fanatical, green man gaming, indie gala, or etc, you can use isthereanydeal.com to help find sites for certain games, then all you have to do is buy the game pack, and message each of your friends a Steam key so they can redeem for their copy. Either way same results you get in the end.

[wrfeldmann]

They also changed that if you buy from 3rd Party, you still can't add to your library. I can buy 1 as a gift, I can't buy a 4-Pack. Now, if the game were to go on super sale, what are they doing to stop me from purchasing single packs? and allowing 1 multi-pack per user for games already in their library would allow honest people to distribute to friends.

[Crazy Tiger]

Unfortunately people aren't always so "honest", therefor such changes are done.

It's why we can't have nice things. Blame the abusers, not the mediator.

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[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by wrfeldmann:

They also changed that if you buy from 3rd Party, you still can't add to your library. I can buy 1 as a gift, I can't buy a 4-Pack. Now, if the game were to go on super sale, what are they doing to stop me from purchasing single packs? and allowing 1 multi-pack per user for games already in their library would allow honest people to distribute to friends.

Buying Steam keys, the only way for you not to be able to use the key to redeem the game on your account, is if you already own the game on the account, key already been used, or was given a invalid key.

Steam keys are codes, you do not automatically redeem them to any account, so you can hold onto keys long as you loke, and give to your friends whenever you want.

You can gift a single copy per person, but it will be more expensive than the pack.

Read my post before as provides you answers.

[gunslinger]

"Continue to payment" button grayed out, and can't buy any of title at the shop.
Is this bug?