Steam removes inventory gifting

It would be nice if steam has better discounts because of this change.

Well, looks like no more impulse-buying on Steam for me.
And no more fresh Artifex Mundi release giveaways from me for the peace thread.
Also, no more cheap but interesting/useful (for gameplay) DLC giveaways, even though I was actually seriously thinking to get into it.

Otherwise, I only spend money there on cards to craft badges for games I completed. If they close that too, I need to start hoping BFG introduces a saner pricing policy and I can finally mostly leave Steam behind as a shop.

Those fucks at G2A must be jumping with joy now. Key reselling will increase.

On the other hand, thank you, Valve, for confirming what I have been saying for a while now: their income mostly relies on skin trading. The new maximum item price increase and this killing of game trading confirms that this is the only source of revenue they focus on.
Well, as long as the Kreml somehow doesn't create a Big Firewall of Mother Russia to finally keep the internet traffic completely internal and under control. That would probably drop skin trading rates by… 90% or so?

Edit: Heh, this comment is partly uncomfortably true, yet it is hilarious in its own really sarcastic/sardonic way, reflecting reality a bit through the eyes of an everyday guy living in a not everyday region:

Oh, and BTW, it was a brilliant idea to separate Russia and Ukraine on one more field, we were getting too friendly here. Nicely done, Putin would be proud of you.

I'm starting to think that Valve is flipping us the bird on purpose just because they can

So now i can't even win good games, because they are with higher costs here than in USA or other regions!

I saw strings related to this earlier, but I didn't quite expect this.

Tried gift randomly chosen* game from EU to US.

"Due to regional price differences, the gift you are trying to send cannot be sent to the recipient's region."

• not randomly chosen

Well this will have zero impact on my giving, as games bought in my region can literally only be given to others in my same country. That region is not even an option on steamgifts so all my giveaways have to be bundle or ROW store keys. But I think we will see a lot less 'big' game giveaways on this site now.

You know, I would prefer this announcement to start with "Listen now cocksuckers" and ending with "Fuck you", because wrapping this shit up in " we want to make it easier for you to share the games you love with friends" is much more insulting.

that is punch in a face of all steamgifts community and worldwide gifts.

I don't like these news at all. :(

With ROW copies no longer being a thing. Some countries will also have to deal with their games being censored/not being able to get the games at all.

Im curious, what if you buy the game as a gift and use your own email as reciever. Then give the link you get away as a gift?

That's crazy

I can see how Valve would think that choking the life out of resellers and marketplaces would lead more people to purchase games at full price directly through Steam, but I doubt it will have a large impact on full price purchases. I predict its primary impact will be a sharp decrease in the quantity of sale purchases, which will not only lead to less profits for Valve but will massively hurt developers and publishers who had no say in this decision. This is a really poor move in my opinion.

The Valve love-hate relationship with its users continues. Hopefully more people will be buying keys from 3rd party sites instead of steam gifts during holiday sales from now on. Maybe that will be enough for them to get their bs together on this situation.

Can't wait to compare the amounts of givaways creatured during the summer sale compared to last year's D:

Well goodbye my birthday thread :D

Used to buy games as gifts when I had a voucher from badge crafting to give them away here afterwards.
RIP that.

Great another headache to deal with. I hope this seriously impacts their revenue so they're forced to rollback on this stupid change.

Ask for a refund for every game possible and buy them elsewhere. Steam deserves no money

The only way out of this hell - is steam gift cards\codes, but this is stupid and boring to give away steam gift card codes instead of actual games, and it is unimplementable on SG since you can't possibly verify what person buys or even stashes code.

This is sad 😐

Guess I'm not THAT pessimistic about chinese WeGame anymore. Valve really walks on a thin ice lately, feeling allmighty and stuff, while not doing much as an actual service (if standard 30% sales cut and user-created skins matter at all), less said developing one.

Another scumbag move in a long line of scumbag moves.

The worst thing about this is the absolute braindead idiots incapable of critical and rational thinking who will actually defend this on forums and stuff, I've already seen some in the Steam community. That shit genuinely drives me nuts.