Can’t consider an honest birthday current for that sort-of-but-not-really good friend or distant member of the family? Don’t fear: Steam has your back. Instead of simply giving them some money that they’ll in all probability spend on a sport anyway, why not present that you simply care — however not an excessive amount of — by choosing up a digital reward card from Steam? They’re accessible now, in case you’re prepared to leap by way of some hoops.
Essentially, that is only a approach to high up a pal’s Steam pockets. You can buy a digital reward card by way of Steam, choose an quantity and the good friend you need to ship it to, and Steam will ship it with a personalised message. Accepting the reward will add the funds to their Steam pockets.
There are some restrictions, nonetheless. Restrictions that John and I sadly needed to wrestle with once we tried to check the system.
I requested John to ship me a fiver (you possibly can ship between £5 and £100) as a result of freelancers have to make their cash no matter method they will. Unfortunately, we weren’t already mates, which meant we needed to undergo the entire rigmarole of discovering one another, which didn’t work as a result of each of our profiles had been personal. Apparently you possibly can’t have privateness and new friendships. Eventually, after leaping by way of too many hoops, we had been buddies, however we weren’t finished.
It seems that every one this effort was nugatory as a result of I wasn’t eligible for the reward within the first place. Steam didn’t provide an instantaneous rationalization of why I wasn’t eligible, and we needed to discover it elsewhere by looking by way of Steam’s support page. Great. It seems that digital reward playing cards can’t even be despatched to mates until they’ve been your good friend for 3 days. This is clearly to cease fraud, however it’s not remotely clear and, in the end, implies that we couldn’t check the characteristic correctly.
Given that reward playing cards are fairly lazy presents, and also you’d anticipate digital variations to require even much less effort, that is all extremely foolish. I might by no means think about placing up with this nonsense when there are nonetheless bodily Steam reward playing cards accessible.
So there you have got it: plenty of faff. You may as nicely get somebody a considerate reward as a substitute.
