Steam need to let you put game you haven't installed or played in your gift inventory.

Well maybe if people actually buy games they play there shouldn't be any problems.

Why not buy as gift copy & activate only when you play?

Or here's an idea ... don't buy a game unless you intend to play it.

So I'm imagining someone that buys everything (not just games on steam, but everything) as a gift.
All pre-wrapped in a non-descript wrapping paper etc.

Now whenever you choose to wear the clothes or use the item, you end up unwrapping the gift. So its like a little celebration all on its own.
And whenever christmas or any equivalent 'gifting' celebration comes around you go through your storage location and pick out some of the gifts that have been standing there for over a year unused. And those will be the things you hand out that year!

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And that seems to be the mentality that people subscribe to when they say you should buy everything as gift.
Having a storage container filled with stuff that you may or may not want to use but bought because....?

During one sale I was buying everything as a gift copy, and only activating them later. Then I got burned buying this which appeared as unowned in the store. The gift wouldn't activate because I already owned it as this. :( Every time that thing is on sale, I have to remember not to buy it. :)

This is why Physical > Digital

Steam does not need this,you should not buy things you do not need...

Wait who am i kidding how can it become a world full of so much waste without buying things we do not need