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Steam adds wishlist categories and cross-region gifting
Valve has updated Steam with new wishlist categories for better organization and improved gifting features, including cross-region gifting. Users can now create custom categories for their wishlists, customize notification settings, and share specific filtered views. Gifting has been enhanced to automatically calculate regional pricing at checkout, and the guest checkout process now supports purchasing games and gifts.
Valve launches two big Steam updates, and one of them arrives at a perfect time
Valve has released two significant updates for its Steam platform, enhancing the gifting and wishlist features. Users can now gift games directly via email and through guest checkout, with cross-region gifting also supported. Wishlists have been improved with categories, a 'Demo Available' highlight, and the ability to share filtered views, arriving at an opportune time given the busy release schedule for PC games.
Steam Gifting and Wishlist Changes
Steam has announced changes to its gifting and wishlist features to improve user experience. The updates aim to reduce friction for users wanting to purchase games for others, including adjustments for cross-region gifting.
Steam wishlists and gifting games just got a whole lot more useful
Valve has significantly enhanced Steam's wishlist and gifting features. Users can now create customizable categories for wishlisted games, improving organization and filtering. Gifting has also been streamlined with guest checkout for non-account holders and email gifting options, including cross-region gifting.
Steam wishlists are getting categories, making it even easier to organise all those games you'll definitely buy next sale
Valve is introducing categories to Steam wishlists, allowing users to better organize their desired games. Additionally, the platform is enhancing its gifting features, including a guest checkout option for any game and cross-region gifting, making it easier for users to purchase games for friends and family.
Valve just made two big changes to Steam: Wishlists are smarter, and it's easier to gift games while telling your…
Valve has implemented significant updates to Steam, enhancing its wishlist functionality with custom categories and improved notifications, alongside streamlining the game gifting process. Users can now create and share specific wishlist categories, and gifting is simplified with guest checkout and the removal of the need for friends to be connected on Steam.
FFXIV Online Store Gets Buy for a Friend Item Gifting Again
Square Enix has reinstated the "Buy for a Friend" gifting option on the Final Fantasy XIV Online Store for several item categories, including emotes, face paint, fashion accessories, minions, mounts, and orchestrion rolls. This feature was previously removed in October 2022 due to concerns over fraud and item reselling. The gifting option is now available for single-character items, with account-wide items marked as unavailable.
Final Fantasy 14 lifts restrictions on gifting after 4 years, allowing players to give other fans of the MMO single-character mounts, minions, and more: "Finally"
Square Enix has lifted restrictions on gifting items in Final Fantasy 14, allowing players to purchase mounts, minions, emotes, and more for other accounts via the online store. This change, which has been a long-awaited feature for the community, enables players to share in-game cosmetic items with friends.
