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Does anyone else find Steam's Store UI annoying?

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Hey guys,

I wanted to ask the community a question and that question is the title.

Does anyone else find the Steam UI, either for the website in a browser or for the Program, in the store annoying?

I ask this because I can't buy multiple copies of a game I want to gift. If I can, I can't figure out how. 

If I do buy that game for myself, then I can't buy it for anyone else as it says "you already own this game" and there is no "add to cart" option.

I find this very irritating as I gift games quite a bit, and now that the Steam Summer sale is on, I'm trying to "stock up", if you will.

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I don't mind it, then again, I have never taken a look at it from your perspective, I just always get 1 copy so it was never bother sum to me, I do like it rather then going to a store to buy the game, but then there is the downfall of the download. 

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I agree, the Winter Sale 2012 was much better. 

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For those who say "You just don't know how to use it."

Explain how to use it then please.

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It's fine for me as I purchased four games using my HTC One. You can purchase games you already own, but they can only be added to your inventory or directly gifted via Steam or e-mail.

Try going back to the game's page and Add to Cart -> Purchase as gift

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Not at all. It's easy. I've tried, used and purchased with every version of the steam store and I've never had a problem. 

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Not really, for me it's really easy to use. Only problem right now is there a lot of people on steam and causing it to be really slow.

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Not really, for me it's really easy to use. Only problem right now is there a lot of people on steam and causing it to be really slow.

That's not what I'm talking about.

If I want to buy multiple copies of one game that doesn't have a "4-pack" version, I have to go in, buy it, repeat x4.

If I actually buy the game for me, it says I already own it and can't buy another copy, gift or otherwise, so I have to buy all the copies I want before activating one for myself, or I can't buy more.

I get that I'm a unique case (I doubt many people buy multiple copies of games this much), but still, it could be muuuch easier. Like how Newegg does it or something similar.

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I love it :D

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I can work with it, its not what I expected for my first big Steam sale but am getting to like it.  The problem it can't handle to many people at once at peak times, to me over 2 hours to buy Skyrim last night, but was no problem when I bought Endless Space this morning.

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Well, I would say i don't really care about the UI as long as I can buy and boot games.

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well yeah its a bit annoying for me

and also the search sucks

i typed borderlands 2

u know what showed up

1000 DLCs  and borderlands 1

so what i did was i selected

Games

still didnt  show up

so i went through a dlc to find the "must buy borderlands 2 first"

then clicked that........

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I wouldn't say hard to use, but the UI is and feels clunky. 

                                        

 

                                                 

 

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Hold on. Steam won't allow you to purchase extra copies after you purchased the game for yourself?

 

That sounds like a 100% bug, I have never had that happen to me.

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It's true you can't buy multiple copies of a game at a time but you CAN purchase it if you already own it.

 

I own X-COM but still lets me Purchase as Gift.

 

 

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I just hate how slow it is... and that's on the regular day.  It's just crawls with the sale.  They need better code/design the steam app, since it browse fine with chrome.

 

I accidentally clicked ok when asked for age, now my browser is stuck and I can't see any games.. even after I logged in.  Geez..  Not going to bother clearing cookies now.

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Hold on. Steam won't allow you to purchase extra copies after you purchased the game for yourself?

 

That sounds like a 100% bug, I have never had that happen to me.

 

Correction on this, I was wrong. It lets you buy it as a gift. It used to not let me (back in the day, lol) or maybe I was just blind.

I find it quite laggy in general and lacking in features.

Basically this.

If I have an item in my cart and want to buy multiple of it, why can't I just edit a quantity field to just select 4-5 of them (or however many)? It's very irritating when there is no "4-pack".

Oh well. Bought like 10 copies of To the Moon Bundle (OST and game). Still likely to buy more. 

It just feels clunky, and honestly, I'd expect more from Valve. :|

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