gifting on steam

[rageagainstmachine]

I want to gift a game to someone on steam, but i don?t know their steam username. My idea was to send it to their email, but how does it work from there. Does the end user have the ability to associate teyh gifted game themself?s to their own steam account?

thanks

[Daedroth]

You can gift to an email according to Steam: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?p_faqid=549#gifts-recipient

I haven't used this process before, but I would imagine it would give the recipient an activation link where they can redeem the game. (I would imagine it can only be redeemed to a Steam account only linked to that email address)

[rageagainstmachine]

(I would imagine it can only be redeemed to a Steam account only linked to that email address)

this is what i want to clairify before i do it

[Knightwolf20024]

this is what i want to clairify before i do it

yes they get an e-mail with an activation link inside of it

it looks like this (Not my photo)