Bamba wrote:
Findus Fop wrote:
Raargh. I've been trying to purchase this for my father-in-law for his birthday.
He's not terribly technically minded, so I just about managed to get his Steam name from him, only for it to transpire that that's not the ID you need in order to find eachother on Steam. Not even sure either of us have profiles, just have Steam usernames. Back to square 1.
So I purchase a code via ebay, hoping to to email it to him for activation, only to be told it can only be distributed as a Steam gift. Get a refund, very nice ebayer all told, AAA+++ would recommend.
Now, is there anything obvious I'm missing?
It's his birthday today.
I can't talk him through the process of connecting our steam profiles, let alone creating one.
Any other options that spring to mind?
I've struggled with this in the past. A guy I work with gave me his Steam ID but I can't find him anywhere. I did read something about not being able to view someone's profile unless they'd spent over a minimum amount of money, but I've no idea if that's true or not.
I read that too. I think it's down to your steam username being different to a Steam Community profile - and you have to actively create that profile, which looking at my profile page, doesn't look like I've ever done. It is that profile that you send gifts to and from.
So my father in law are likely profile-less Steam users passing eachother like ships in the night.
Ultimately, it's been a right pain in the arse, but I've now purchased from the maker directly, set him up on his own Factorio account, activated the purchase, and sent him the login details.