Depends on the region you are in. Games are still giftable from Steam. Just look at the prices of particular game in steamdb.info and create a GA with regional restriction. You can send gift to any region where price of said game is not much higher than 10% than the price in your region. Since you are from EU you probably can gift game to users from almost every region with exception of few. Japan, England, Australia, New Zealand, Israel are few countries where prices are relatively high.
I looked at some of the games in steamdb. Assuming you are from EU then,
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The "new policy" is from 2-3 years ago, and multiple sites seem to indicate that gifting through Steam to a different region is not possible if the price difference between your & recipient's region is 10% - Check steamdb.info or use the Augmented Steam browser plugin for country pricing.
I don't know whether these countries with big price differences affect the list of region restrictions shown before purchasing the gift or not.
So if you have a Steam Gift game and want to setup a GA with the proper region restrictions, it might be some extra work to determine the proper restrictions to place on your SG giveaway.
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First off, thanks guys.
But this sounds really problematic. Maybe I'll stick to gifting keys, then..
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If you want to be safe, I would say stay with keys because chances are Steam will let you do it just fine but there is also a chance you won't be able to send it because they will block you because you just added the person and you have to wait who knows how long to be able to send it, if Steam would just be clear about their rules that would be nice
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All ya gotta do is find something where the regional pricing for all of the countries on SteamDB aren't more than 10% more than what it costs in your currency - as long as you're using GBP/USD/Euros its not the hardest thing to do.
You'll soon learn that for some reason loads of games are priced higher for random countries like Switzerland or Israel which makes it an issue, sometimes I just take the risk - no Swiss or Israeli winners as of yet!
I've always wanted to give away AKIBA'S Trip but regional pricing says no :(
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I've been lucky so far. I also live in the U.S.
But yeah, I can see it being a risky thing to do. I mostly stick to keys now.
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Well yes, but there is a catch. Actually two.
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In order to give a steam gift to someone the recipient needs to be from a region where the game costs the same or less.
You can't buy a game on your side where the base price is 50$ and gift to someone from a region where the base price is 60$, then the region restrictions will block the game from being sent.
If you buy a game that's on special for 90% off on your side, the base price being 50$ and your gifting it to someone where the regional price is 49.99$ and the game is only on 70% discount for some reason then you can gift the game to them as the region pricing fits the bill.
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Hey guys,
so I wanna gift some better games but the new policy on gifts by Valve is kinda dismissive.
So can I create a GA with a good title, add the winner to gift him the game and delete him right afterwards? Is that still possible?
Thanks in advance
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