I am unable to purchase games in steam

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I am unable to purchase games in steam

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My steam account seams to be functioning correctly but I am unable to purchase games. When I click on 'purchase' nothing happens.

I would be grateful of any advice.
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Re: I am unable to purchase games in steam

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numb.kill wrote:My steam account seams to be functioning correctly but I am unable to purchase games. When I click on 'purchase' nothing happens.

I would be grateful of any advice.
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Post by numb.kill »

Thank you.

I used the workaround 'wine Steam.exe steam://purchase/'

However when I try to purchase cs:s, application ID 240, it says the subscription is not available in my area (Australia) it is the same for most games.

Any ideas?
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Post by bj0 »

How do you install a game demo though? If you try purchase, it says it is not available for purchase, I've tried get,run,install ... none of which do anything.
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Post by numb.kill »

I'm not sure about demos, but the only way i could get CS:S was to download the Gary's mod package, it said all the others were unavailable in my region, so my advice would be just keep trying different identifier numbers that include the demo you want.

hope this helps
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