Eternity RPC Board
07-05-2017, 03:24 AM
Well, because Steam is run by complete money-grubbing asshats, I'm going to have to look elsewhere for gifting copies of these games. Apparently, Valve decided to break the Steam gift purchasing system in order to fix a problem that didn't exist. You can read all about it in this thing.
Basically, the problem is that you can now only directly gift to people on your friends list, and only right then at the time of purchase (you can, however, delay the notification of the gift to whenever you want). You can only gift to one person though, meaning if, say, I want to buy 10 people Golf With Your Friends, I have to buy all 10 copies in 10 different transactions and make my credit issuer concerned as I waste time going through the cart>purchase>gift sequence repeatedly. I also have to plan ahead and know everyone that wants stuff in advance instead of just buying cool stuff and giving it away because I'm a cool philanthropic dude like that...which you know won't happen, because I don't plan shit.
Not only that, but, say, someone is goofing off or otherwise clicks the decline button and the thing's no longer on sale, I now have to hope and wait for the game to go on sale again sometime in the future to afford gifting it again.
So yeah, I'mma probably just grab a 4-pack of Tabletop Sim while I can, and see if I can find the other stuff on sale somewhere else (like GOG, where all your games are DRM-free!)
Basically, the problem is that you can now only directly gift to people on your friends list, and only right then at the time of purchase (you can, however, delay the notification of the gift to whenever you want). You can only gift to one person though, meaning if, say, I want to buy 10 people Golf With Your Friends, I have to buy all 10 copies in 10 different transactions and make my credit issuer concerned as I waste time going through the cart>purchase>gift sequence repeatedly. I also have to plan ahead and know everyone that wants stuff in advance instead of just buying cool stuff and giving it away because I'm a cool philanthropic dude like that...which you know won't happen, because I don't plan shit.
Not only that, but, say, someone is goofing off or otherwise clicks the decline button and the thing's no longer on sale, I now have to hope and wait for the game to go on sale again sometime in the future to afford gifting it again.
So yeah, I'mma probably just grab a 4-pack of Tabletop Sim while I can, and see if I can find the other stuff on sale somewhere else (like GOG, where all your games are DRM-free!)