Major Changes to Steam Gifting

[Random Guy Esq.]

You can no longer buy extra games to store in your inventory, or even gift by email... Gifts now have to be sent directly to the receiver. Steam blog.

Obviously a further attempt to stamp out reselling and inter-region trading etc, but for genuine customers who liked this feature, it's a kick in the balls.

 

[Random Guy Esq.]

I had never used that feature to send or receive a gift. I do understand that for some it will be a bad change but if it stops illegal website from reselling games I'm all for it. Plus the fact that steam has more or less monopoly and we cant do a thing about it.

The dodgy websites tend to sell keys though, I'd have thought? This change will curb the activities of those individuals who are reselling/trading actual gifts for profit, but Valve could easily have tackled that problem differently, so as not to impinge on those who give gifts away for legit reasons (friends, family steamgifts.com etc).

 

[Random Guy Esq.]

I've seen people make the claim on steamgifts.com alright. It'll take a few days for people to work out the exact tolerances, i.e. exactly just how cheap is "too" cheap?

 

[Random Guy Esq.]

GOG don't choose to sell old games only... Publishers of newer games simply aren't going to allow their wares appear on a DRM-free platform.