Regarding the title, may I suggest the feature/option disabled until further steam gifting policy changes.

Story:

User Location: Malaysia

I made a GA yesterday but cant send the gift to winner because of the region lock
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/zoshW/edna-harvey-the-breakout

Remade the GA with region lock but still cant send the gift because of the price difference.
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Q07jI/edna-harvey-the-breakout
Wadafac?

Cant send to any country except mine because the price difference is above 10%
Price check https://steamdb.info/app/255320/

Is gifting using steam still viable anymore?

6 years ago

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Disable gifting using steam

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But what if you want to gift the game/bundle that is composed by more than one key? You can't list the keys on SG because it'll be treat as different copies.

6 years ago
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Will the restriction still applies to the bundle? If yes, its still the same problem.

6 years ago
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Keys usually have less annoying restrictions, but at least they can bypass price difference limit.

6 years ago
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Thats 1 solution

Buy keys from resellers (humble bundle etc) and gift it here

6 years ago
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As best I can tell, all we really need is the ability to select specific countries instead of the more broad regions. Without that though, gifting through steam is very difficult.

6 years ago
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Once we do that, we no longer follows the spirit of gifting.

Nations with bigger user base will benefits the most while the smaller user base will be left in the dark. -_-

Not to mention, if you can pass the 10% price difference. Even the countries next to me have a price difference higher than 10%.

6 years ago
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+1

6 years ago
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Disabling gifting doesn't sound too good to me. For following reasons:

  • There is still a chance for gifting to work.
  • It 100% works for region related GAs. There are numerous regional groups here at SG. Those group will be gravely affected if Steam gifting is disabled.
  • I'm not sure but I think it works for ROW countries...Or it might be because of Steam Sales... I successfully gifted 6 games without any issues even though the winner's region had more than +10% price change.Need confirmation on this from others.
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15% (14.78% is okay if SteamDB is accurate) or higher is where it prevents gifting to more expensive regions.. for now (any Euro users I can't gift to because most prices are 17% higher than the US store price, but there might be 1 out of 100 games where the price isn't 17% higher)

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6 years ago
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Yeah... All gifts were row. Then gifts became region locked. Now it's country locked (some will say that it's not, but for me that lives in Brazil, gifts can only be sent to brazilians).
I'm counting the days until gifts become city locked...

SG needs to put a option to select specific countries (like Writhe said), or steamgifts will be only about bundled games (and free now).

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