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blushyleo 5. dec. kl. 9:13
Group Game Gifting!
I think it would be really cool if we could gift a game to someone together with our friends.

Right now you can just buy a game as a solo gift, but imagine a new option called “Buy This Game Together.”
You could pick the game like normal, choose “gift,” and then select this group gift option.

From there, you’d pick how the cost is split like 50/50 or 30/70, or something, and choose which friend you want to invite. That friend would get a message saying something like:

“Want to chip in to gift ___ the game ___?”

Once everyone contributes and the purchase goes through, the receiver gets a cute notification:

“Your friends got this game for you!” and you could add a cute personalized message from everyone that contributed!

It would make gifting easier and more fun, and I think it would probably boost game sales a lot! :luv:
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Tony 5. dec. kl. 9:24 
I agree! I'd love to be able to gift games like this :)
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Ben Lubar 5. dec. kl. 9:41 
You could do something like this with digital gift cards, but I'm pretty sure the reason it won't exist on its own is the difficulty of coordinating multiple payments and what happens if one fails but the others go through.
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Nx Machina 5. dec. kl. 9:42 
Except you missed that the cart is only accessible on your account which in turn is tied to your payment method.
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blushyleo 6. dec. kl. 16:27 
Oprindeligt skrevet af Ben Lubar:
You could do something like this with digital gift cards, but I'm pretty sure the reason it won't exist on its own is the difficulty of coordinating multiple payments and what happens if one fails but the others go through.


Good point! I think if one payment fails the simplest solution would be that the other person gets a refund with a little message like "Your gifting partners payment was not successful, you'll recieve a refund" (Just worded better) :P
As well as getting a refund if the other person declined and was not wanting to participate in the gifting.
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blushyleo 6. dec. kl. 16:41 
Oprindeligt skrevet af Nx Machina:
Except you missed that the cart is only accessible on your account which in turn is tied to your payment method.

The way I’d love for it to work is that each person would check out on their own account with the amount they want to contribute.

It would just take some coding on Steams end, but I think it would be such a fun feature! :)
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Hikari Light 6. dec. kl. 16:50 
Oprindeligt skrevet af blushyleo:
Oprindeligt skrevet af Nx Machina:
Except you missed that the cart is only accessible on your account which in turn is tied to your payment method.

The way I’d love for it to work is that each person would check out on their own account with the amount they want to contribute.

It would just take some coding on Steams end, but I think it would be such a fun feature! :)

As far as I'm aware, no site has group shopping carts.

It is not as easy as you think, if it is even possible.

If someone you know wants something, just buy it for them if they can't afford it.

There is no need for extra and unneeded work on Valves end.
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blushyleo 6. dec. kl. 17:05 
Oprindeligt skrevet af Hikari Light:
Oprindeligt skrevet af blushyleo:

The way I’d love for it to work is that each person would check out on their own account with the amount they want to contribute.

It would just take some coding on Steams end, but I think it would be such a fun feature! :)

As far as I'm aware, no site has group shopping carts.

It is not as easy as you think, if it is even possible.

If someone you know wants something, just buy it for them if they can't afford it.

There is no need for extra and unneeded work on Valves end.


That’s why I didn’t mean an actual shared cart. It's called a split payment.
The idea would be that everyone pays their own portion through their own account. Steam would just track contributions and finalize the gift once the total is collected.

It’s definitely more work to implement, but it could make gifting easier, more fun, and probably encourage more purchases

It’s fun to imagine what could be possible!
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Ben Lubar 6. dec. kl. 18:13 
Oprindeligt skrevet af blushyleo:
Oprindeligt skrevet af Hikari Light:

As far as I'm aware, no site has group shopping carts.

It is not as easy as you think, if it is even possible.

If someone you know wants something, just buy it for them if they can't afford it.

There is no need for extra and unneeded work on Valves end.


That’s why I didn’t mean an actual shared cart. It's called a split payment.
The idea would be that everyone pays their own portion through their own account. Steam would just track contributions and finalize the gift once the total is collected.

It’s definitely more work to implement, but it could make gifting easier, more fun, and probably encourage more purchases

It’s fun to imagine what could be possible!

You could also just... Give your friend $5 and have them buy a $10 game for your other friend. Digital gift cards already work for this use case without needing to deal with a myriad edge cases.
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Nx Machina 6. dec. kl. 18:56 
Oprindeligt skrevet af blushyleo:
The way I’d love for it to work is that each person would check out on their own account with the amount they want to contribute.

It would just take some coding on Steams end, but I think it would be such a fun feature! :)

It would not work as a game has a singular price as shown on your store page and remains the same price when added to your cart, so there is nothing for Valve to code.
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Hikari Light 6. dec. kl. 18:59 
Oprindeligt skrevet af blushyleo:
Oprindeligt skrevet af Hikari Light:

As far as I'm aware, no site has group shopping carts.

It is not as easy as you think, if it is even possible.

If someone you know wants something, just buy it for them if they can't afford it.

There is no need for extra and unneeded work on Valves end.


That’s why I didn’t mean an actual shared cart. It's called a split payment.
The idea would be that everyone pays their own portion through their own account. Steam would just track contributions and finalize the gift once the total is collected.

It’s definitely more work to implement, but it could make gifting easier, more fun, and probably encourage more purchases

It’s fun to imagine what could be possible!
I see no fun.
I see only a nightmare for a dev team to even attempt to make something like that.

Just send your friend a gift card. Problem solved.
Split payment is for when ONE person needs to use multiple payment methods to pay for something. My workplace does this, using multiple cards or a mix of cash and card to pay for their items.
If you and some friends all want to pay for something, have everyone send a steam gift card to the user who is going to buy the game and that user pays via that. Much faster as it already exists.
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