Buying multiple copies of a game on Steam - WHY ISN'T THIS POSSIBLE?

No. It is how Steam is designed.

Yes, if the currency in your Paypal account differs from the currency Steam is charging you.

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Yeah, the navigation is pretty terrible.

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Same here. Maybe it depends on the payment method used?

Thanks - that's a great idea, and it seems so obvious now you mention it!

I'll do this in future :) I still think it would be useful if Valve enabled this though. Would save going through the whole tedious checkout process for every copy.

nope

Already tried that. It's the most logical solution but, alas, no dice...

Steam won't let you do that sadly...

Not every currency type is supported on Steam. Here in Canada we have to pay in $US. Fortunately I don't get extra fees with every transaction but not everyone is that fortunate. When I'm planning on getting multiple copies of something though, I'll add funds to my Steam wallet then do my purchases. It's slightly faster for subsequent transaction and it doesn't show up as dozens of transactions on my CC statement.

Just be careful when buying the same thing multiple times. My ability to buy stuff was temporarily removed twice after buying too many of the same game to trade/give away. They want to prevent people from stocking on cheap games to make a profit out of it.

Steam only supports 5 currencies (US dollar, Euro, British pound, Russian ruble and Brazillian real) out of the 182 currently used throughout the world. So the majority of Steam users have to pay in a different currency to their national one.

It does indeed. New Zealanders and Australians get the dubious privilege of paying for their purchases in US Dollars, despite having relatively viable currencies of their own :(

"Super cheap game in the russian store some time ago"

There is always a super cheap game in russia. More than 1.

I suppose not. If I hadn't been washed ashore on Steamgifts all those months ago, I'd never have considered gifting a non-physical copy of a game to anyone...

Steam is the Facebook of computer games? Exaggeration much?

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Good comment.

This website needs a thanks button, or something else to show appreciation by just clicking one button. I feel like posts saying "+1" are superfluous and dumb, but in the meanwhile it's the only way to say "Gee willikers, you really are one respectable motherfucker".

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€: NOT A KARMA SYSTEM GOD DAMN IT'S THE BANE OF REDDIT WHICH IS AN OTHERWISE AMAZING WEBSITE (contradictory opinions obviously allowed but voicing of them is not encouraged)

I'd love to see where you get your highly accurate statistitcs from.

You, good sir, have a brussels sprout where your soul should be.

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Cost of games = $50

Cost of currency conversion = £25

Total = ¬_¬

This explains why I haven't gotten offers on my steamtrades for like 80000 Fortix.

If you're in Italy, there's every chance you're buying in your native currency, so no conversion fees?

Been mentioned further down the page and, yes, I'm guessing this is how the smart people do it :)

On the plus side, I like to think that with all the Steam-based currency conversion fees incurred over the past few years, I've done more than most to help Westpac through the global recession...

Thanks for the offer. Sadly my bank levy this fee on ANY and EVERY single transaction which converts my kiwidollars to USD, so they've got me either way.

The conversion fee is just one of those things I accept when buying goods in USD (and even with the fee, it's ALWAYS dramatically cheaper than buying the equivalent product here), but the inconvenience of not being able to purchase multiple copies in a single transaction on Steam is something that I still don't really understand.

Ignore user (even as a joke that's really fucking annoying)

YOLT.

The name's Bond...