{"id":96455,"date":"2016-06-24T12:33:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T10:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=96455"},"modified":"2016-06-24T12:34:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T10:34:40","slug":"why-you-cant-buy-countersrike-global-offensive-as-a-gift-during-the-steam-summer-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/96455-why-you-cant-buy-countersrike-global-offensive-as-a-gift-during-the-steam-summer-sale","title":{"rendered":"Why you can&#8217;t buy Counter-strike: Global Offensive as a gift during the Steam Summer Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several gamers were left perplexed after the Steam Client refused to allow them to purchase CounterStrike: Global Offensive as a gift.<\/p>\n<p>The game, which is currently available for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/730\/\" target=\"_blank\">R79.50<\/a><\/strong> as part of Steam&#8217;s Summer Sale, can still be activated directly on your main Steam account.<\/p>\n<p>Redditor and Valve employee <strong><a class=\"author may-blank id-t2_71b65\" href=\"https:\/\/np.reddit.com\/user\/ido_valve\" target=\"_blank\">ido_valve<\/a><\/strong> has now explained why this is the case:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CS:GO will not be giftable during the sale. Our goal with sales is to grow the community and historically, during sales, the new users that stick around are mainly the ones that purchase copies for themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The game should return to normal when Steam&#8217;s Summer Sale ends on <strong>4 July.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 10 awesome games you should pick up in Steam\u2019s Summer Sale\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/96413-10-awesome-games-you-should-pick-up-in-steams-summer-sale.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">10 awesome games you should pick up in Steam\u2019s Summer Sale<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Awesome multiplayer games you can play even with high latency\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/94039-awesome-multiplayer-games-you-can-play-even-with-high-latency.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome multiplayer games you can play even with high latency<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The best deals in Steam\u2019s Summer Sale\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/96391-these-are-the-best-deals-in-steams-summer-sale.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The best deals in Steam\u2019s Summer Sale<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several gamers were left perplexed after the Steam Client refused to allow them to purchase CounterStrike: Global Offensive as a gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":89661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,85,12591,697],"class_list":["post-96455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-steam","tag-summer-sale","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96459,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96455\/revisions\/96459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}