IIRC if the price difference is over %10 you can't.

I had issues gifting to a US person and had to use Humble Bundle, so yes, the price difference is over 10% on some stuff.

EDIT: Doesn't need to be said, but yes, I am a Canadian.

EDIT 2 : Oh, this showed up on the forums page for some reason, and it's a day old. Hmm...

No we cannot. The default Steam price for us is +10% US price. Since our dollar is so low, the difference is over 20%, which is beyond the 10% limit. You need to buy games from 3rd party retailers in order to gift to US peeps.

Depends on game to game basis. You gotta check if game in country X os more than 10% expensive. Some may be some not.

Same problem in South America. Brazilians cant gift for Argentina and maybe others neighbours.
The South America region retriction filter need update or a new option.

The whole system is a nightmare, best to buy your keys elsewhere from now on and save the hassle.

It's pretty stupid. :/

This new gifting is so stupid that one cannot send a gift for a game that is not available in a region or has a different ID (i.e. low violence version, language restricted versions, etc)

It truly sucks but I dont think they will revert it unless like million people protest? lol

I didn't even know about this until I read this.
Definitely not happy about this, I'm UK based, so I think plenty of gifts will be null for me :/

This is what happens when Valve has no real competition they can keep locking stuff down more and more as it will have little impact as people will still use Steam.

I was never a big trader so this impacts me little but that does not mean I like the changes.I will do all the shopping I can outside of steam from now on.What annoys me the most is the 10% rule.What the point of having a global platform to make global friend's and the most basic function of gifting games is so gimped that you might as well removed it.

You can get around this if you want but it can be more of a pain depending on who your want to get the game for which is give them a market item they can sell for around the price of said game so they can purchase it themselves.Though this really ruins the surprise of gifting a game to a friend on the whim.

the best thing to do now is to use vpn and buy RU games xD

This is an absolute shame, I was looking forward to get the gift of games from my Russian trader friends, that I only send back a small monetary gift through other means is only courtesy, of course.

/s

I am confused after reading some messages.
Let me give you an example and let's check if I'm right?

Let's say there is a game called "The Game" and it's prices are like this

Italy: $70
France: $95
Turkey (me): $100
Canada: $105
UK: $130

I can gift to Canada and France since price diff is less than 10%.
I can't gift to Italy since their prices are too low and diff is higher than 10%.
I can't gift to UK since their prices are too high and diff is higher than 10%. I'm not sure about this one, things get messy here
Am I correct?

Also what happens if a game is 90$ in Country1 and 100$ in Country2? Country1 can't gift to Country2 but Country2 can gift to Country1?