{"id":1396411,"date":"2025-11-18T12:07:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u7zGHqN2aQ8EUvvy8Msucb"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:07:55","slug":"seven-years-after-launch-and-eighteen-years-after-steam-the-epic-games-store-will-now-let-you-gift-games-directly-to-your-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/seven-years-after-launch-and-eighteen-years-after-steam-the-epic-games-store-will-now-let-you-gift-games-directly-to-your-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven years after launch and eighteen years after Steam, the Epic Games Store will now let you gift games directly to your friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Good news, everyone! A mere seven years since it launched, the Epic Games Store has gifting now! The Fortnite developer announced the new feature<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.epicgames.com\/en-US\/news\/gifting-now-available-on-egs\" target=\"_blank\"> in a post<\/a> on the store, stating that &#8220;players can now purchase and send games directly to friends on their Epic friends list.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Users who purchase gifts through Epic&#8217;s payment system will earn Epic Rewards\u2014which gives customers between 5% and 20% back on Epic purchases. The post also says that &#8220;recipients can use their Epic Rewards balance to redeem gifts&#8221;\u2014an odd phrasing that makes it sound like you&#8217;ll need to use Reward points to redeem a gift you&#8217;ve been given. However, in the longer<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.epicgames.com\/en-US\/features\/gifting\" target=\"_blank\"> Gift FAQ,<\/a> Epic clarifies that &#8220;you can use your<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.epicgames.com\/features\/epic-rewards\" target=\"_blank\"> Epic Rewards<\/a> balance toward a gift purchase&#8221; which makes a lot more sense.<\/p>\n<p>As for what you can gift friends on Epic, the answer is most items on the store, but not everything. The exceptions are free games (for obvious reasons) pre-purchase offers, subscriptions, and in-game currency or other consumable items. Anyone who receives a gift on Epic has 14 days to claim it, somewhat shorter than the 30 days allowed by Steam.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:3403px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.24%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"9JehfNybYzXznzf8gU3amX\" name=\"epicgift\" alt=\"An image of the Epic Games Store, showing the new gift button on the right hand side.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/seven-years-after-launch-and-eighteen-years-after-steam-the-epic-games-store-will-now-let-you-gift-games-directly-to-your-friends.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"3403\" height=\"1914\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Epic Games)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Otherwise, though, the Epic Games Store now lets you send gifts to friends just like Steam allows you to do, and has done since\u2026wait, when <em>did <\/em>Valve add gifting to Steam? A quick Internet search reveals the feature was <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neogaf.com\/threads\/valve-adds-gift-giving-to-all-steam-games.218477\/\" target=\"_blank\">added to Steam in 2007<\/a>, almost 18 years ago. There are people about to enter adulthood who have technically (if not legally) been able to give their Steam friends digital presents for their entire lives.<\/p>\n<p>In Epic&#8217;s defence, its storefront hasn&#8217;t been around anywhere near as long as Valve&#8217;s digital distribution behemoth, only launching in 2018. But that&#8217;s still a <em>long <\/em>gap between the initial release and the addition of gifting. Valve, by comparison, took only four years to add gifting after Steam&#8217;s launch in 2003, and didn&#8217;t have a hugely successful competitor&#8217;s worksheet to crib from.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong, it&#8217;s a good thing that Epic allows gifting now. But it also demonstrates why Steam has such a stranglehold on the PC gaming market. Epic is <em>by far <\/em>Valve&#8217;s most adept competitor when it comes to<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/pc-gamings-many-launchers-reviewed-for-2024-steam-still-puts-the-rest-to-shame\/\"> PC gaming storefronts<\/a>, and it is still miles behind in terms of basic functionality. Let alone other competitors like Microsoft, whose storefront is downright horrible to use. Then there&#8217;s Amazon, which has apparently<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/amazon-apparently-thought-it-was-gonna-compete-with-steam-since-the-orange-box-but-prime-gamings-former-vp-admits-that-gamers-already-had-the-solution-to-their-problems\/\"> been trying to beat Steam for 15 years<\/a>, only nobody noticed because the company was so bad at it. Valve simply does it better than anybody else, and there&#8217;s nothing to suggest that&#8217;s likely to change any time soon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"6ead793b-660f-465b-ab98-efe65b8f9b96\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:400px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Vji3V6i3HDWUHeQ22PrjFL\" name=\"New Project (8).jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/seven-years-after-launch-and-eighteen-years-after-steam-the-epic-games-store-will-now-let-you-gift-games-directly-to-your-friends-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"6ead793b-660f-465b-ab98-efe65b8f9b96\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: This year&#8217;s upcoming releases<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/seven-years-after-launch-and-eighteen-years-after-steam-the-epic-games-store-will-now-let-you-gift-games-directly-to-your-friends\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news, everyone! A mere seven years since it launched, the Epic Games Store has gifting now! The Fortnite developer announced the new feature in a post on the store, stating that &#8220;players can now purchase and send games directly to friends on their Epic friends list.&#8221; Users who purchase gifts through Epic&#8217;s payment system will earn Epic Rewards\u2014which gives customers between 5% and 20% back on Epic purchases. The post also says that &#8220;recipients can use their Epic Rewards balance to redeem gifts&#8221;\u2014an odd phrasing that makes it sound like you&#8217;ll need to use Reward points to redeem a gift you&#8217;ve been given. However, in the longer Gift FAQ, Epic clarifies that &#8220;you can use your Epic Rewards balance toward a gift purchase&#8221; which&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/seven-years-after-launch-and-eighteen-years-after-steam-the-epic-games-store-will-now-let-you-gift-games-directly-to-your-friends\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1396412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748],"class_list":["post-1396411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Seven years after launch and eighteen years after Steam, the Epic Games Store will now let you gift games directly to your friends | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Good news, everyone! 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