Hi forum,
I apologize for asking this question that seems to be asked many times. I've seen the response from JoeW on 25 Feb 2018 stating the below quote. Is this still true? I own DST on my steam account and I purchased a brand new pack for a friend yesterday, so I'm wondering if she received two copies. We started playing yesterday and I've checked her inventory but there is no extra gift copy. Please help, thank you!
A purchase is 2 copies. If you buy for yourself, you get two copies. If you buy for somebody else, they get 2 copies.
Once you already own the game, you can no longer buy it for yourself, because you already have it (that's just how steam works). So you can only buy it as a gift. Whoever you give that gift to will get both copies. When they accept the gift, one goes to their library and the other is a giftable copy. "