Yeah because I can't
No one tell me about it
There's no restriction "!" or something like that.. But I can't gift it
*sigh

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If it's non-tradeable, then you can't gift to anyone else, I would assume you can only redeem it for yourself?

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Gifting and trading are 2 separate things though.

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Yeah, but it depends whether it's a temporary trading restriction or a permanent one. Like I can trade for 30 days because I haven't purchased anything on Steam in a while, but some items are simply untradeable all the time? Honestly, I don't even know.

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Items are different, gifts have multiple way of being sent without using trades (email, gift through steam directly etc) items however require you to have access to trading to be able to give it to someone else (and in some cases a premium version of the game they belong too)

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I want to gift a game, but I can't
He said it's restricted
But on my screen it's not region locked
It's not tradeable right now, so I assume it's the problem?
Or maybe it's steam error thing?

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Valve wants you to spread the love and joy... under their restrictions and circumstances.

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*sigh
Gaaaabeeenn!! xD

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Can you be a bit more specific?
Your inventory is set to private so I can't see what you're referring too, but I had about a dozen gifts from the winter auction which, like yours where never tradable only giftable but I could send them to anyone just fine using the "send gift" button, are you sure it's not just a temporary bug?

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Yeah, I tried going to his inventory too, but he has a giveaway for Space Farmers awaiting feedback on steamgifts, so I'd guess it's what causes the problem...

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Exactly :(

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Yeah, I'll open it for a bit

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Just checked and it seems the gift has no restrictions indeed, does the gift have the "send gift" button clickable when you select the gift in your inventory?

Oh and before i forget just in case this doesn't work out and your gift is region locked for example, the game is currently in this bundle

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Yeah I sent it to the person already
But he said it's restricted
I tried to send to his email right now
I hope it's worked

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I fear that you just got the bad luck of having a gift that is region restricted but where the warning just bugged out, afaik region restrictions and 2-3-4 packs bug out all the time giving wrong warnings if any at all, did you get this gift yourself in your own region?
I noticed that you had multiple region locked games, if you got those yourself just like space farmers It's 100% certain that the lack of a warning is just a bug and you won't be able to gift the game to that person.

-edit- just to be clear, if the receiver of the gift told you that the game is restricted he probably means that he cannot activate it on his account, this has nothing to do with the gift being (un)tradable.

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Sorry I'm not really knowledgeable about bundle thing
So, if it's bundled I can't gift it?

I think I got it a few month ago, but I just haven't activated it yet

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No no, you misunderstood.
I linked you to that in case you decide that you still want to gift that game to the winner of your giveaway despite you copies of the game being region restricted, alternatively you could probably trade with someone for a key for that game from a bundle, shouldn't cost you more then say 50 cents - a dollar at most.

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Yeah so in case he still can't activate it
You send me that link to buy it again?
Or maybe trade it with someone?
Ahh I see

Still I don't understand why it's restricted when nothing region locked at that gift :(

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Yeah so in case he still can't activate it
You send me that link to buy it again?

Exactly, In case you decided that you still wanted the winner to get that game despite the gift being region locked (which will probably become visible once the 2pack is redeemed and 1 copy is dropped in your inventory, that 1 copy should have a warning unlike the 2pack)

You could contact steam support to inquire about this,(they should be able to tell you if it's locked) but judging by the slow response people get when they have real problems with steam (account hijacked payments not being processed etc) I highly doubt you will get a real response within a week or even in a months time.

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You should have no problem gifting a game even if it is non-tradable... except if the person has it. And even in that case you can still send gift via email and it works.

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Ah I'll try it

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You should be able to gift any games you have in your inventory, even if they are non-tradeable (due to being new). The steam servers have been very wonky as of late though, so this might be the issue. Give it a few hours and try again.

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Yeah I hope so :(

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Whaa? It's not funny
24
OR maybe 25 is funnier

W-wait it's not the topic

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Use the "send gift" function to send it from your inventory to your Steam friend.

It sounds like it's region-restricted, though. You may just want to buy another copy that isn't region-restricted to give to your winner.

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Sorry I forgot to close this
It's not mentioning about region lock, no "!" or red font
It's just so weird

But it's already solved. Thank you for your help :)

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Closed 9 years ago by Rayl1ght.