r/Steam • u/wickedplayer494 64 • 1h ago

News Gifting made easier: Guest checkout, gifting to email, and more

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/669497052089025105
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u/Mactenchi 1h ago

Cross-region gifting is huge. Seems like there’s always posts about that here

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u/Entegy 30m ago

Yup. Being able to pay the recipient’s regional price right then and there is a great solution.

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u/Mactenchi 28m ago

Heck, even paying higher of two prices seems reasonable to me if needed to prevent abuse

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u/Entegy 26m ago

I think it was also about making sure the recipient got the legally available version for their region too, not just pricing. A looooooong time ago, gifting friends was a way around unavailable or censored versions of games.

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u/salad_tongs_1 https://s.team/p/dcmj-fn 1h ago

Absolute awesome move them using Petz Pack as an example game at the top of that. *chefs kiss*

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u/l_______I 54m ago

Respect to the guy who got his friend the Petz Pack.

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u/kron123456789 46m ago

I wonder why they decided to return gift to email feature after removing it years ago because of scammers.

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u/madjoki https://steam.pm/pi3do 6m ago

Probably due to discontinuing of physical gift cards.

It's much more limited version (same country only), I assume that's to manage risk.

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u/Vallard 5m ago

Does this means that my region will be disclosed to all the people in my friends list that try to gift me something?