Ability for users to give games from free giveaways to friends

[Insaider Mag]

You may have had occasions when you wanted to give your friends a temporary game (or not temporary at all) as a gift, but couldn't do so due to the lack of such an option. So, my suggestion is to make it possible to give both temporary free games and regular free projects before and after adding them to your library.

In addition to this, a badge could be added to encourage people to give paid games to their friends or family.

[rawWwRrr]

Lol... No.

[nullable]

Why don't your friends and family just participate in the game giveaways themselves? Why do you need to be the gate keeper?

I think you overestimate Valve's concern with people getting free stuff if you think they need or want you to collect it up and distribute it for them.

[Insaider Mag]

Messaggio originale di nullable:

Why don't your friends and family just participate in the game giveaways themselves? Why do you need to be the gate keeper?

I think you overestimate Valve's concern with people getting free stuff if you think they need or want you to collect it up and distribute it for them.

Well, there are situations when a person simply can not go in some days in Steam, and the distribution of the game let's say after less than a day ends.

I'll give you an example, recently Content Warning game was given away, and before I found out that the game is now given away for free, there were 4 hours left before the end of the giveaway, and friends simply either could not because of work, or simply some simply forgot to add the game.

And yes, Valve doesn't owe anything, it's just my suggestion. For temporary (or not temporary free games) add a button to give away the game.

Not many people need it, but it would be nice to have that option available to the user.

[Start_Running]

Messaggio originale di Insaider Mag:

You may have had occasions when you wanted to give your friends a temporary game (or not temporary at all) as a gift, but couldn't do so due to the lack of such an option. So, my suggestion is to make it possible to give both temporary free games and regular free projects before and after adding them to your library.

In addition to this, a badge could be added to encourage people to give paid games to their friends or family.

If the game is temporarily free. Like a free weekend you can just point them to the store page. If it is a lim ited time giveaway, then the degvs would rather prefer the same approach and such things are usually rewards for thoseb who engage with their social media.

So what purpose is this feature supposed to fill?

[Mad Scientist]

Messaggio originale di Insaider Mag:

Messaggio originale di nullable:

Why don't your friends and family just participate in the game giveaways themselves? Why do you need to be the gate keeper?

I think you overestimate Valve's concern with people getting free stuff if you think they need or want you to collect it up and distribute it for them.

Well, there are situations when a person simply can not go in some days in Steam, and the distribution of the game let's say after less than a day ends.

I'll give you an example, recently Content Warning game was given away, and before I found out that the game is now given away for free, there were 4 hours left before the end of the giveaway, and friends simply either could not because of work, or simply some simply forgot to add the game.

And yes, Valve doesn't owe anything, it's just my suggestion. For temporary (or not temporary free games) add a button to give away the game.

Not many people need it, but it would be nice to have that option available to the user.

Having the mobile app and people message you to inform you tends to help. If you miss something, you miss something, oh well. That's how life is. Don't get everything you want in life.

Anyway, it would have to if ever be added, allow you to opt-in by choice and be able to reject it just like a steam gift. Though I doubt they'd go for that when people could just redeem on the mobile app.

[Insaider Mag]

Messaggio originale di Start_Running:

Messaggio originale di Insaider Mag:

You may have had occasions when you wanted to give your friends a temporary game (or not temporary at all) as a gift, but couldn't do so due to the lack of such an option. So, my suggestion is to make it possible to give both temporary free games and regular free projects before and after adding them to your library.

In addition to this, a badge could be added to encourage people to give paid games to their friends or family.

If the game is temporarily free. Like a free weekend you can just point them to the store page. If it is a lim ited time giveaway, then the degvs would rather prefer the same approach and such things are usually rewards for thoseb who engage with their social media.

So what purpose is this feature supposed to fill?

It would just allow users to give games to their friends during temporary giveaways (not free weekends).

And so, directly this feature is not useful, it can only be for little things (maybe if there was an error with adding to the library or the internet doesn't allow it). And about the promotions, I agree that it's a reward for users who definitely managed to pick up the game, but there just might be cases where a person would like to add a game but can't for various reasons, and a user can help such a person by simply donating a game that is being given away and that they want to add.

[no154370]

Free to Play Games like

1) dota 2

2) CS 2

3) World of Tanks and its counterparts

........etc don't need to be gifted to people in your Steam Account Friend List at all.

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as a result, your suggestion isn't useful at all.

since ultimately, people will need to create Steam Accounts just to play Steam Games.

you can't gift Steam Games outside of Steam Platform at all.

[Insaider Mag]

Messaggio originale di no154370:

Free to Play Games like

1) dota 2

2) CS 2

3) World of Tanks and its counterparts

........etc don't need to be gifted to people in your Steam Account Friend List at all.

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as a result, your suggestion isn't useful at all.

since ultimately, people will need to create Steam Accounts just to play Steam Games.

you can't gift Steam Games outside of Steam Platform at all.

Yes, I agree that being able to give away free non-temporary games can be useless because they will always be free anyway and can be added at any time. But mostly I'm referring to the ability to give away paid games that are temporarily given away for free and then already start selling for a price.

I already mentioned in the first post the recent Content Warning project that was given away until April 2, and I'm mostly talking about those games that are temporarily given away for free but can be gifted to a friend.

But yeah, I was giving an example of free projects too (which will always be free anyway), but I thought about it and realized it was useless, but it would just be nice to have even such a useless feature.

But the main thing is that temporary free projects can be gifted.

[BJWyler]

Messaggio originale di Insaider Mag:

But the main thing is that temporary free projects can be gifted.

Being temporary serves a purpose. It limits the amount given away. Your proposal would eliminate that limit. If the developers wanted it to be unlimited, then they would arrange that themselves. People just have to accept the fact that, in life, they miss things sometimes.

[Piston Smashed™]

If you miss a temporarily giveaway then that is just life, it's not going to be the first nor last time you miss out on something.

People would collect multiple copies of the free giveaway games and try to make profit from them, especially against those people who don't realise that the game had been given away temporarily for free.

[Insaider Mag]

Well rather yes, I agree with you all now, that temporarily free projects if and will fall into the semblance of such a campaign, there should not be any opportunity to transfer the game through friends. Since users will be able to profit from this by creating new accounts and selling them.

And so, thank you gentlemen for such a discussion about the distribution of such games. I will think about other ideas and I will be glad if we can discuss about these ideas.

Thank you all, I will be glad to discuss ideas and their shortcomings with you later.