The price difference cannot be more than 10%.

Send them a digital gift card as there is no restriction and it converts to their currency.

Publishers don't price their games the same way. While one may be giftable, another may not. It would be nice if Steam were more transparent in this regard, but it is something to look out for.

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Publishers don't price their games the same way. While one may be giftable, another may not. It would be nice if Steam were more transparent in this regard, but it is something to look out for.

Doubtful Steam could be transparent as it's entirely down to the publishers. There's no one quick answer to this.

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Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Publishers don't price their games the same way. While one may be giftable, another may not. It would be nice if Steam were more transparent in this regard, but it is something to look out for.

Doubtful Steam could be transparent as it's entirely down to the publishers. There's no one quick answer to this.

Transparent as in improving the checkout process. I know how to research the prices via tools like SteamDB, but most users don't, and even I run into the occasional regional price restriction at the end of the checkout process.

It should know when I'm selecting the giftee whether or not the prices are compliant. Much like it does when it recognizes ownership, it should tell me that a specific person is ineligible because of price differences. But they've built the checkout process to verify that after a friend is selected. It should be more transparent and do it upfront when checking for ownership.

It's come up plenty of times in Suggestions and I find no reason to disagree with it.