Can you guys at IllFonic talk to Valve about lifting the arbitrary restriction on people who already own the game buying the four-pack? I'm trying to buy it with the coupon from Raptr so I can get some friends to play, but I'm unable to do so because I picked it up during the sale. The money is going to you anyway, so I fail to see why this is an issue to begin with.
Can't purchase the four-pack. Punished for already owning the game.
Started by President Magikarp, Aug 22 2012 12:24 PM
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evil_mercenary
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 01:08 PM
I actually know what you mean as i tried to do the same:This is an issue with the way 4-packs on steam works, and, i believe, is down to valve. I suggest you try talking to steam support.
Or alternatively, give one of the intended friends the money, have them buy the four pack with the coupon, and ask them to chare out the copies.
hope that helps
Or alternatively, give one of the intended friends the money, have them buy the four pack with the coupon, and ask them to chare out the copies.
hope that helps
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Posted 31 August 2012 - 08:34 AM
This has always been the case with Steam. When you buy a four-pack, you get three giftable copies and one goes to your account. Since you can't buy a game you already own, you can't buy a four-pack either. I buy a lot of games and gift a lot of games, so I run into this problem... well... a lot. I don't know for certain why they do this, but it's been that way since the first four-packs were introduced.
I think the reason this is limited to first-time-buyers is that they don't want people stock-piling games during a massive sale, just to resell them later. That's against the rules, but unless people try to blatantly sell games on the Steam forums, it's impossible to track down people that are selling gift copies. Their solution is to simply block buying games in bulk. This also prevents people from creating dummy accounts that buy four-packs, considering you'll lose one copy to the dummy account, resulting in exactly the regular price for the remaining three games. The guys at Valve are pretty business-savvy, but unfortunately sometimes that means inconveniencing honest users. Trying to gift a game to my whole office as a surprise is a complete pain since I have to buy each one in a new transaction and worse, only the four-pack is discounted. I would probably have bought Nexuiz for the office if the four-pack discount worked multiple times. Instead, I just got it for 3 friends. I'm still very happy with Steam, though!
I think the reason this is limited to first-time-buyers is that they don't want people stock-piling games during a massive sale, just to resell them later. That's against the rules, but unless people try to blatantly sell games on the Steam forums, it's impossible to track down people that are selling gift copies. Their solution is to simply block buying games in bulk. This also prevents people from creating dummy accounts that buy four-packs, considering you'll lose one copy to the dummy account, resulting in exactly the regular price for the remaining three games. The guys at Valve are pretty business-savvy, but unfortunately sometimes that means inconveniencing honest users. Trying to gift a game to my whole office as a surprise is a complete pain since I have to buy each one in a new transaction and worse, only the four-pack is discounted. I would probably have bought Nexuiz for the office if the four-pack discount worked multiple times. Instead, I just got it for 3 friends. I'm still very happy with Steam, though!
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