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Friends and parents are already buying them for me as sales arrives, but they will give me the keys on Christmas day, of course.
Now i wonder... since they would buy them from Windows, how will those sale be counted?
I mean, i know that Steam counts a purchase as a Linux sale only if you buy the game from Linux OR play it more on Linux during the first 14 days after *purchase*.
...but does this mean that all of my presents will be counted as Windows sales or the "countdown" will start after i activate the key?
Last edited by kokoko3k on 13 November 2019 at 6:56 am UTC
It was related to the "activate the key" bit.
As for Steam gifts, there is no reason to suspect that it would make any difference compared to regular purchases.