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Live in a country that has the highest Steam price so there is no chance price can be lower (Europe and to a lesser extent can be NA too), still have some gifts in inventory before they removed the method, or those that still offer 2-4 packs and such.
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Gift just to your own country if you don't feel like wanting to check SteamDB for such things.
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- Lol? I need an answer without me needing to moving another country.
- I can do that. But i aam ready to research DB too. It just doesn't feel certain and i need opinions.
Thanks for answer.
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- I am not joking since that's literally the only way you can make sure you can gift to people across all regions via steam gifting. In other words, you're kind of out of luck and that's why everyone prefers to buy steam keys instead.
- Yeah it sucks. I can only gift to Southeast Asia countries apart from needing to make sure the prices aren't too high. For me it is not worth the hassle and so I just gift with steam keys instead and use my excess steam wallet to directly gift to friends or buy my own games.
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I know. Thing is, After Steam's 2007 policy, i can't gift a game to a person if that person's country's price is higher than mine. (No official but i believe it's %10 difference)
English is not my first language too. Thanks for the answer
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Q1: people mainly do giveaways for keys as of late, because many of them work world-wide. You need to know restrictions for a key you want to giveaway though.
Q2: You can make region restricted giveaway, that will include only country(es) where you for sure can send your gift. There is no way to send a gift to a region with higher prices.
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Thanks for the answer but i am not talking about region-restricted keys. I am talking about this for example: https://steamdb.info/app/307690/
I am in Turkey. I can't Steam gift to Russia, India, Kazakhistan, South Asia... Because their Steam price is cheaper. (No probably i can gift to them but i can't receive)
Arrggh
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Just select that giveaway is restricted upon creation, and chose only Turkey as allowed counties.
Like this http://imgur.com/a/SOpJxfj
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Thank you.
But as i said: My gift is universal or at least restricted to some countries. But in the Steam's gifts page, i only can see if it's available when i choose receiver.
GIFTERS WHO USE GIFTS PLEASE ANSWER ME
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My gift is universal
I really doubt it. Try to send any gift to a friend from the same country, and you'll get a notice saying in which countries this gift can be redeemed. You don't need to actually send the gift, just cancel it after you see this notice. Every other game will have the same, or maybe even more strict, restrictions. That's what you should chose upon creating the giveaeay.
AND YES, I USE GIFTS OFTEN, I ALREADY ANSWERING YOU
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Thanks. My assumption was if there is not a warning about restrictions in the game page, the gift would be universal.
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Yes. But you must choose the correct region restriction when creating your GA. Ryzhehvost let you already know the steps you must take, see the picture in his comment.
1) Create GA for the game you want to gift, and restrict your GA to Turkey
2) buy your winner the game on Steam with your Steam wallet and gift it to him / her.
Since the region restriction of your GA means only other users from Turkey joined the GA, you won't have a problem gifteing them their win.
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So, this answer is important:
I can use my Steam Wallet to gift only to my countrymen?
(Edit: Thanks for the answer. But i know all that -.-.)
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That is the best and safest way, because there won't be any price difference.
Everything else means looking at each game individually and checking via various sites in which countires the game cost less than in Steamstore Turkey.
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Yeah. But there are people use steam gifts to gift in sg without region restrictions.
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Yes, but not that many.
I'm in the EU, so that means I could use steam gifts to gift here. There are very few games, and no complete regions, where the price I have to pay is more than 10% lower than for the winner.
But for most other regions that just isn't the case. So most users here won't go through that hassle and just gift keys and / or gift links... or restrict their GAs accordingly.
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Is there a way me to use my steam wallet to gift via steamgifts?
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Well, if you're not content with the answers already provided: you could gift without restrictions and then transfer the required amount to buy the gift themselves to the winner's wallet by buying an item from the via Steam market.
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I also fall in similar situation like you, relatively on the lower/cheaper regional zone. Most of the time I can only gift to 10-15 countries (6 countries in my steam region).
As you can see some of my GAs has regional restrictions, those all GAs are steam gifts. In order to ensure that the winner can receive the game I use help of Enhanced Steam add-on for Steam or you can use SteamDatabase and ESGST add-on for SteamGifts.
So normally my procedure is like this:
- Open the steam store page of the game you want to gift.
- Click on Steamdb.info icon in the same page.
- Compare your regional price and other regional price. You can gift all those region with cheaper price than yours Plus regions with less or equal to +10% higher price.
- Create a region restricted GA selecting regions that meet above criteria. If you fall on clustered region i.e. region that contains multiple countries ESGST comes handy for this. You can create preset or pin counties for future ease.
I will show you an example. Suppose I want to create a GA for Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™ in SG. Look at the images.
First image is for Steam Store. Second one shows which countries you can or can't send/receive gift. Third image is bit helpful if you are constantly making region restricted GA.
Note: Prices vary from region to region or may fluctuate so if you are making GA be extra careful, its safe to limit GA within your region but I haven't had such issues till now. Normally set GAs time limit less than a week if you are including other regions
*Note 2021-12-25: This guide may not work always. Even if you follow ±10% rule, there might be other restriction from Steam for certain regional blocks. I have seen some comments where gifting is strictly restricted to that particular regional block. I think that was CIS region, will need confirmation from someone from that region. So try it on your own risk. As for me, all of my GA done as a Steam gift has worked 100% of the time.
*Edit 2021-12-25: Another example/guide of Steam cross-region gifting.
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Thank you very much! This is an input i exactly wanted.
I was thinking about similiar thing to check regional prices but i didn't know these 2 add-on's. Silly me.
There is no confirmed %10 rule. Official Steam blog post just says "When there is a large difference in pricing between countries, gifting won't be available": https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1301948399254001159. So are you sure about the percentage?
As you have received %100 positive feedback i am going with your rules. Thanks again.
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you deserve bunch of bluehearts for this answer <3
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Hi. I know i'm late to this train. I wasn't using gifting function much. But i want to learn, please leave your comment if you have knowledge..
Steam doesn't allow cross-regional gifts following the blog post from 2017: https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1301948399254001159. So it says cross-region gifting is allowed only if receiver's game price is lower than sender's gift's recent price's 10 percentage. (No official percentage. They just say "large difference in pricing")
My problem is: Apparently i am in of the countries that Steam has lower prices. I want to gift games with my Steam Wallet but recently got a warning from one of my gifts :"Due to regional price differences, the gift you are trying to send cannot be sent to the recipient's region."
My question is: 1. People who makes giveaways via Steam Gifts. How can you be sure winner can activate?
Q2: What can i do to gift using my Steam wallet?
I read a bit about it. I feel like i can use SteamDB to find out my 10 percent (?) countries then i can make a specific giveaway. But it feels silly.
Thanks
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