Gifting games to streamers

[SugarPaws]

Yo anyone know of a way to gift games to streamers other than steam gift cards? I'd love to put up a list of games for the viewers who want more influence over what is played by letting them actually buy the game for me to play on stream.

[Cathulhu]

The only way to gift games directly is either by having them on your friendlist and buy it through Steam, or a buy a product code that activates on Steam in their region of residence from an authorized reseller.

[SugarPaws]

well dang. Seams like something that would be useful. Not only would it give more stream interaction but it would also help to drive sales for both bigger games and the indie market. Yes that was a shameless attempt to sway the all powerful lords of steam to add a feature that would benefit both sides.

[eram]

Originally posted by GrayMuzzle:

well dang. Seams like something that would be useful. Not only would it give more stream interaction but it would also help to drive sales for both bigger games and the indie market. Yes that was a shameless attempt to sway the all powerful lords of steam to add a feature that would benefit both sides.

nah, someone with 3 viewers begging for free games doesn't help anyone.

[BJWyler]

Originally posted by eram:

Originally posted by GrayMuzzle:

well dang. Seams like something that would be useful. Not only would it give more stream interaction but it would also help to drive sales for both bigger games and the indie market. Yes that was a shameless attempt to sway the all powerful lords of steam to add a feature that would benefit both sides.

nah, someone with 3 viewers begging for free games doesn't help anyone.

As a former streamer, I concur.

Perhaps if the OP tried Keymailer, he might find better opportunities.

[eram]

Originally posted by BJWyler:

Originally posted by eram:

nah, someone with 3 viewers begging for free games doesn't help anyone.

As a former streamer, I concur.

Perhaps if the OP tried Keymailer, he might find better opportunities.

Keymailer wont send out free games to people with almost zero viewers. They sometimes do when its like a unknown dev with a mobile game with 0 sales. op doesnt really have a good enough channel, not trying to be rude its just how it is. Most people are not popular online its just a fact..

95% was it on twitch have 0 to 5 viewers , or was it 98%,its a really high number.. OP has 200 followers and average of 1 person (himself) as a viewer. Keymailer look at this stuff.

[BJWyler]

Originally posted by eram:

Originally posted by BJWyler:

As a former streamer, I concur.

Perhaps if the OP tried Keymailer, he might find better opportunities.

Keymailer wont send out free games to people with almost zero viewers. They sometimes do when its like a unknown dev with a mobile game with 0 sales. op doesnt really have a good enough channel, not trying to be rude its just how it is. Most people are not popular online its just a fact..

95% was it on twitch have 0 to 5 viewers , or was it 98%,its a really high number.. OP has 200 followers and average of 1 person (himself) as a viewer. Keymailer look at this stuff.

While I don't disagree when it comes to larger studios and games, I can say, as a small streamer, I got a boatload of keys from indie devs and smaller studios. It was very rare that the game was trash, nearly all the ones I got were pretty decent and worth my time to stream.

[eram]

i know 1 full time variety streamer thats been doing that for years, they ever grew.