PHJF wrote on Feb 20, 2012, 16:16:
Yeah but nobody is going to buy a game they have no intent to play with the intent of trading it in the future. And with packs, you can't activate SOME of the games and trade/gift away the others. I don't think they'd have implemented the trading system as they did without some sort of further intent for it.
I've actually bought a couple games with the intent of trading it away in the future. When popular games go on a super cheap sale, once or twice I've picked up a copy to trade it for something else I'd prefer in the future. I once bought an extra copy of TF2 for any future needs and now its free, but I was only out $2 for that
The multi game packs are done that way intentionally so there's not a lot of extra game copies floating around. And when a pack offers a giftable version of a game, they tell that up front since its unusual. I still have my giftable serious sam 1 and 2 sitting around for instance.