Valve enables 'Steam'y gift purchasing
by Alexander Sliwinski 
{ Dec 18th 2007 at 10:15PM }
Adding an option that is sure to never be used by grandma, Valve's Steam service now offers gift purchasing functionality. The concept is pretty simple -- once again, not for grandma -- a customer simply purchases a game off the Steam service and then has the option to gift it to someone else. The recipient of the gift receives an e-card which holds their hand (virtually) through the Steam download process.The Steam selection is expansive with possibly career-ending games like Kane & Lynch and the recently released Universe at War: Earth Assault available. Go ahead and poke around the Steam store, it might save you a trip to the mall -- maybe even save a forward-thinking grandma a trip to the mall.
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WiNG @ Dec 18th 2007 10:22PM
Buy EVERYONE YOU KNOW a copy of Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved.
It's $4 and it will destroy their lives.
gonk @ Dec 18th 2007 10:25PM
eh, i played the demo and didn't like it
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NmOoekbK6YI
Abscissa @ Dec 18th 2007 11:03PM
I played Geometry Wars on a 360 store kiosk. It seemed like nothing more than a reasonably polished but not nearly as fun clone of Robotron. In fact, I've seen very comparable freeware games that were made in a couple of weeks by a single person.
WiNG @ Dec 18th 2007 11:08PM
Is your goal today to shoot down every reasonable post, then spam some youtube videos? Because pretty much every gamer on the Internet and reviewer will disagree with your assesment of Geometry Wars.
gonk @ Dec 18th 2007 11:12PM
*points to abscissa's post*
colin @ Dec 18th 2007 11:19PM
see grid wars 2,
free, and a little easier than geometry wars (i'm not that good, end up getting frustrated when my skill level plateaus, and quit playing.)
Shagittarius @ Dec 18th 2007 11:21PM
I'm gonna say Geowars was highly overrated, I've played plenty of robotron style games. I don't think it was that great either.
rom @ Dec 18th 2007 11:34PM
I love Geometry Wars. I think it's way better than Robotron, and I loved that game too(bought a PS2 retro title solely for that game). Definitely worth the money if you ask me.
Burnt Meatloaf @ Dec 19th 2007 6:48AM
Man, you people act like the game costs $40 or something!
*sigh*... never mind.
opnickc @ Dec 18th 2007 10:55PM
Dangit, I was going to buy Portal for someone, but since it wasn't sold in stores (outside the orange box) and steam didn't have a gifting service I ended up just writing a check with "Buy Portal!" in the memo. Would've been nice to have this feature before, but it's still good that they've added it.
jynxycat @ Dec 18th 2007 11:09PM
to all the haters of steam during it's early months;
ha.
Shagittarius @ Dec 18th 2007 11:22PM
I don't buy digital copies of games or movies.
WiNG @ Dec 19th 2007 12:46AM
Shagi, you're Al Gore's best friend!
mogamer @ Dec 18th 2007 11:21PM
Wake me up when I can pass along a game I purchased and no longer play.
Cheezeman3000 @ Dec 18th 2007 11:22PM
Huh... this service sounds an awful lot like N... nevermind.
Zoro @ Dec 19th 2007 12:34AM
It's about time. I've been wanting to gift Portal for awhile now, but don't want to shell out the $50 for Orange Box.
ThornedVenom @ Dec 19th 2007 3:22AM
The new dawn of sugar daddies shall rise.
Burnt Meatloaf @ Dec 19th 2007 6:50AM
Real game disc or not, anyone who were to gift me Sega Rally Revo would be permanently off my friends list.
oshin @ Dec 19th 2007 8:52AM
Anybody got jeff gerstmann`s steam account name ? Im sure he`d love another copy of Kane and Lynch ! hurhur