Make it MUCH easier to gift a game to multiple friends.

[Gun Tech.]

1. Go to game page.
2. Click Buy as Gift.
3. Friend list is shown, but can I tick the boxes and click Buy?

NOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Because Steam doesn't want my money.

It also wants me to fill out a form for every single copy I buy as a gift.

What is even that. Jackie Chan face. That is separate from not wanting my money. That is sheer madness.

Make it MUCH easier to gift a game to multiple friends. Such as by reducing it to the 1 2 3. Cheers...

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Each friend must be its own transaction.

[Gun Tech.]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Each friend must be its own transaction.

I've already said why it doesn't warrant filling out a form for each friend.

All other web stores let you purchase multiple items without having to declare why you bought each item.

It's fine, Steam had their chance, they don't want my money. I'll just ignore the friends wishlist feature then until they make step 3 happen. -_-

A suggestion is to put the form if some knob wants to buy !drops and if it's a real user trying to buy 4 games for 4 of his real friends on Steam they could just put the checkboxes and take the money. That would be sane, and also something a real business would do.

[rawWwRrr]

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All other web stores let you purchase multiple items without having to declare why you bought each item.

All? Every single one of them? With Steam being the one single exception?

[Gun Tech.]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από rawWwRrr:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Gun Tech.:

All other web stores let you purchase multiple items without having to declare why you bought each item.

All? Every single one of them? With Steam being the one single exception?

Yes, all.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

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Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από rawWwRrr:

All? Every single one of them? With Steam being the one single exception?

Yes, all.

Epic Games, Ubisoft, EA, GoG, Battle.net ?

I honestly don't know because I don't gift on them.

[rawWwRrr]

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Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από rawWwRrr:

All? Every single one of them? With Steam being the one single exception?

Yes, all.

Doubt.

[[?]legit]

The funny thing is you'll quickly get cooldowned if you gift too much in a short period of time here on steam...

[Gun Tech.]

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Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Gun Tech.:

Yes, all.

Epic Games, Ubisoft, EA, GoG, Battle.net ?

I honestly don't know because I don't gift on them.

:qr:

Sort of valid. But I meant any web store. I can buy gifts for anyone in any web store without having to declare why and are you sure and whoa, please wait, we don't want your money.

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από 3arclegit:

The funny thing is you'll quickly get cooldowned if you gift too much in a short period of time here on steam...

Well all I know is I want to buy these 4 wishlisted games for 4 of my friends, and I have a long list of checkboxes of which I can only select 1 (so technically it should be a radio button list), after which I have to fill out a form 4 times.

Cooldown is probably for big streamers/tubers who buy their success with money they already have to become big in the first place. They are few, why is 1 at a time the default?

Just forbid spamming gifts to cheese !drops loyalty only, and the problem is solved. How is this not obvious?

...

[rawWwRrr]

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Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Epic Games, Ubisoft, EA, GoG, Battle.net ?

I honestly don't know because I don't gift on them.

:qr:

Sort of valid. But I meant any web store. I can buy gifts for anyone in any web store without having to declare why and are you sure and whoa, please wait, we don't want your money.

Since when do you have to declare why you are buying someone a gift and confirm are you sure on the Steam store?

The only part of the checkout process that is different is clicking "Purchase as a gift", you select who gets the gift, you fill out a gift note (if you want, just fill in junk, it doesn't have to be exact), and then the rest of the process is the same.

You want to be upset about having to gift each person separately, fine. Just stop embellishing for the sake of drama.

[Sleepy Yoshi]

It is dumb and inconvenient. Which is why the posts are focusing on how you said it, rather than the core issue itself. Steam's fun.

[Gun Tech.]

If it were optional, I wouldn't have provided critique.

Obviously if I fill out a form that I know is going to be sent to my friends, I won't fill in "asdf asdf asdf".

Steam is the one making it hard for me to gift 1 game to 4 friends. -_-

Sometimes UX is dumb, and it takes someone to state the obvious to make it normal.

Click Gift to a friend, click a few checkboxes, pay. Now wasn't that easy? :)

[Tito Shivan]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Gun Tech.:

Steam is the one making it hard for me to gift 1 game to 4 friends. -_-

People turning 'gifting for friends' into a business (and a source for scams) made 4 packs dissapear and transactions work the way it does.

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Gun Tech.:

Sometimes UX is dumb

And sometimes it's working as designed.

[Gun Tech.]

At the same time the UI presents a list of checkboxes with the friends you want to gift to. This is incompatible with multiple sequential forms, since you are reading that list and my reply in a web client of sorts.

What's the point of presenting a form with 3 text boxes per recipient, if the solution would be to put random text in each?

No. Steam didn't think this through, and I'm offering the UX for the existing UI to make it much easier.

To counter spam gifters, just forbid it outright and you prevent big guys from buying bigger bigdom. This is my kind way of interpreting the form as that, and not as lack of TLC on Steam's part.

For those who want personal messages for each recipient, put a checkbox for that. Nobody wants that, just as you suggest by filling in the forms with nonsense, so it should be unchecked by default.