Weird. CS:GO specifically or a bundle? What exactly is it saying? o.O
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CS:GO will not be giftable during the sale. Our goal with sales is to grow the community and historically, during sales, the new users that stick around are mainly the ones that purchase copies for themselves.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/4pi811/csgo_50_off_in_summer_sale/d4l5ol6
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And that's how you destroy half of the traders on steam. >:(
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Well, most traders sell ROW gifts. Also, I wanted to buy a cs:go gift for a friend of mine. Now what? xD
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It's often just a question of faking Store region. Which is a lot easier than Valve would make anyone to think it is.
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I fucked. I had an order of 200 copies.
lol
damn steam
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Translation: "we don't want known notorious VAC evaders to stock up on the game the only time we ever put a discount on it."
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Now, how will I buy a cs:go gift for a friend of mine? xD
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How exactly? :D I don't want to spend my real money. He hasn't even made a steam account yet (will probably do in the next month) and he expects me to give him cs:go. What will I do? :/
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A steam account with not at least 5$ spent on it it's 100% garbage. Have him spend at least 5$ on the shop, then you can transfer steam funds by placing market items at very high prices and have either part buy that (with fees)
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Firstly, I bought yesterday a cs complete for him from a trader, because it had the same price as cs:go. Secondly, I doubt that, whenever he makes the steam account (probably at the start of the next month), he will put money in it. He will just play with the games I'll give him and, in the future, maybe he'll consider putting money in it.
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Without the 5 euro spent his account will have limited access though. No community access, and most importantly no market access to sell his drops. Just find a game to his liking when he makes the account with a nice discount that costs about that much and subtly push it towards him. Like this: "re malaka, koita edw ena gamato paixnidaki. Molis pente eurwpoulakia! Tzampa einai! Oute dyo paketa tsigara!" xD
It's not actually necessary to spend the money though, he could simply just add them to his steam wallet and leave them there till there's something he's really passionate about, that also unlocks his account.
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Ε και τι να την κάνει την πρόσβαση σε αυτά; Να παίζει παιχνίδια μόνο θέλει. :P Ίσως βέβαια να βάλει κάποια στιγμή λεφτά, γιατί κάποια στιγμή θα βαρεθεί τα παιχνίδια που θα του δώσω και δεν πρόκειται και να του αγοράσω άλλα άμα είναι ακριβά. :P
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You could do the market thing. Send them a unique item that has unique listings and buy it from (your friend) which you sent yourself. If you truly... wanted to. I think it would cost you an extra steam buck this way.
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My friend doesn't even have steam yet, so he doesn't have items too. :P But anyway, I just bought cs complete for him from a trader, since it had the same price as cs:go. ;P
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He doesn't sound like much of a friend if he "expects" you to give him a game. Maybe you should get better friends and dump this one.
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I even bought him another game too. xD Well, he has helped me quite a lot and he's always there for me, so that's why he's my best friend. :D And I bought him cs complete from a trader, because it had the same price as cs:go.
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You could create the account for him. Purchase with your paypal, and then remove the info. Granted, there's no guarantee steam will be cool with you creating an account to gift someone.
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I don't have paypal money. You see, there are many obstacles. :/
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I can't really say I am not satisfied by this move. Many people will get butthurt for not being able to purchase the game, but if it will help prevent even a minor percentage of the hackers, I wouldn't describe it as a bad thing to do.
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It's not letting me purchase the Valve Complete Pack or the Counter-Strike Complete Bundle either for the same reason.
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Super interesting. I wonder if any other multiple games will get this treatment.
Found out about this just now.
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That's a shitty move, either they apply this to all AAA products or general products with high demand on Steam store and therefore protect them or do nothing, but only caring about the sales of their own games is childish and unprofessional.
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THANK GOD! Valve is doing this to prevent hackers and smurfs to take adventage of the lower price and is effectively protecting the rest of the CS:GO community.
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I still bought a copy for MYSELF for little more than 3€, using their complete bundle.
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Fuck steam because they do that to prevent people like you? Yeah totally their fault. Fuck gaben.
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They don't care about traders, well they do, but they are doing that to stop smurfs and cheaters
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I would say they care about traders in the sense that they hate them and do everything to get rid of them to maximize their own profits.
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Support now will not support people scammed, so yes, they don't want people to trade to maximize their gain, but in this case they are taking care of smurfs and cheaters
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Yea. That was more of an unrelated note and not particularly about why they disabled Gift purchases for CSGO during sales.
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I just want my PROFIT. hehehehehehehe
Dont matter cheaters and smurfs accs.
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Probably it's possible to buy the stuff with an second account who don't has the game registered as gift.
At least this is what I would try in this case.
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Not possible... Just can buy to activate in the acc, not as gift.
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there r a lot of games which cant be gifted on sale, steam scum over and over again
i m starting to love ORIGIN
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This sucks , i wanted to buy this game for my brother :/
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I won't say I don't understand why Valve is doing that but it seems a bit unfair for every other publishers on Steam because they can't benefit that feature to protect their own games from cheating, I'm not even sure it's legal in Europe.
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I'm not sure about it being not legal although I doubt it but the European Court of Justice has also decided that Valve has to allow users to resell games from there Libary and nothing has happened so far.
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Any solution?
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