Anyway to purchase multiple copies of ED to give as gifts?

[evanevery]

Last year I bought Oculus Rifts for all the folks in our production department. This year I would like to give them all copies (or codes for) of Elite Dangerous... (Best use of the Rift ever!)

I already have a couple of accounts myself, and I'm familiar with the process of buying individual access codes (one per email address). But is there a way to purchase a bunch of codes to give as gifts?

 

[MottiKhan]

You can, but you need their names and email addresses before you can buy the gift licenses.

I used disposable gmail accounts to do it in the past, then gave those gmail accounts to the recipients. They can use those credentials to change their name and emails at the FD site.

 

[evanevery]

I think you actually have to have access to the associated email accounts just to complete the purchase, yes? If I remember correctly, you have to create the account (and confirm the email), before you can purchase a copy, right?

Otherwise, I would just purchase the copies using their existing emails...

 

[MottiKhan]

I think you actually have to have access to the associated email accounts just to complete the purchase, yes? If I remember correctly, you have to create the account (and confirm the email), before you can purchase a copy, right?

Otherwise, I would just purchase the copies using their existing emails...

I don't believe you have to access the email to complete the purchase. There's a box you can tick for gift purchases. At least there was a year or so ago.

FD has been making it more difficult to buy licenses as gifts. In the beginning, you just bought the code and clicked the gift box. If you need to access the email to complete the purchase, it wouldn't be worth the effort.

 

[MottiKhan]

Evidently, it's still possible.

Is there a way to purchase items in the store as gifts?

It is now possible to purchase the digital download of Elite Dangerous as a gift. This option is presented within the product page, where you can tick the 'This is a gift' checkbox and add the gift recipient's details and also a gift message. We are currently investigating rolling out this feature to our other products in store, so for the moment anything else purchased through the store will be fixed to your account, we therefore recommend not buying any product other than the Elite Dangerous digital download if you intend to offer it as a gift.

From the store's support page. https://www.frontierstore.net/support/

 

[BDelacroix]

If you buy through steam, you click buy as gift and select the method to inform the recipient.

If you buy through frontier, I believe there is a box to check to indicate it is a gift and you need their email.

 

[evanevery]

Looks like they are updating their pricing at the moment.

Initially (30 mins ago), "ED CMDR Deluxe" was on sale at $24.00 on the games page, but when I actually loaded it into my cart it came in at full price $59.00... (Same with UK Pounds, currency choice didn't matter...)

A few minutes ago, I came back into the store (to check your prior message info), and now it appears that the pricing on the "games" page is also back to full price...

Regardless, its still on sale at Steam and you can easily gift games on Steam. So that is what I did. All my recipients got a copy transferred to their Steam account.

 

[Autoculto]

If you bought them oculus rifts last year they will think your being a tight buying them ED this year lol

 

[c00ky1970]

Last year I bought Oculus Rifts for all the folks in our production department. This year I would like to give them all copies (or codes for) of Elite Dangerous... (Best use of the Rift ever!)

1. Can I work for you??
2. You let them have a Rift without Elite??
3. Will they get HOTAS next year, if so what one??

;-)

 

[evanevery]

1. Can I work for you??
2. You let them have a Rift without Elite??
3. Will they get HOTAS next year, if so what one??

;-)

1. Maybe... Currently looking for a Linux Systems and Network Engineer. You got skills?
2. Being remedied now...
3. They are also each getting a HOTAS with their copies of Elite. T-Flight X on sale at Walmart for $39 each...

 

[evanevery]

If you bought them oculus rifts last year they will think your being a tight buying them ED this year lol

They are also each getting a HOTAS! And there is always the yearly raise AND bonus...

But sometimes ya gotta buy them "personal" gifts as well since their "significant others" (cough - wives - cough) often have the final say on what happens with the yearly bonus and paycheck in general...

We also have a classroom with 24 high-end forensic workstations that employees can use during lunch to play video games if the room is not being used (strict 1-hour limit). Since we design and build high end workstations we also often get free game codes bundled with video cards, etc. They get them as well...

I don't think anyone is calling us "tight"...