>You will never be able to REDEEM againGood night, sweet prince...
>Years of scamsThese things don't even activate until they're scanned and paid for. I guess people were getting scammed on the second hand market
>>740910142Yeah if you go on amazon or whatever online retailer there's tons of people selling """"official"""" steam gift card codes probably scammed off some old boomer.
Huge news for the unemployed.
>>740910060finally
>>740910734Steam Gift cards were based thougheverbeitly
Has anyone ever purchased a steam gift card that wasn't a boomer getting scammed by a jeet? I've never once seen one in any store and I always buy gift cards for special occasions and thank you type shit
I hate gayben and his legion of barely sentient defenders.
>>740910964Many years ago, when I worked at Best Buy, they used to have a program that gave employees free rewards points. Those points could be used to reduce the cost of anything in the store, including gift cards. I must have gotten hundreds of dollars of free Steam gift cards through that program.
>>740910142>anon doesn't know that scamming people via giftcards is India's largest industry
>>740910850Just give them digitally. That still works with zero issues. Giving a physical card to redeem digital goods is cringe anyway.
governments should genuinely ban gift cards
>>740910060scammers ruin everythingshould be punishable by death
how retarded do you need to be to fall for a gift card scam?
>>740910964It's my preferred way of buying stuff on steam, so I don't have to fuck with electronic payments.>>740911318t. most antisemitic man alive
>>740910964I bought a few as a Christmas gift for someone when I couldn't think of anything else one year.The Best Buy cashier was required by policy to check and confirm that I was not someone being scammed as I checked out.
>>740910964they have them in grocery stores here in AUS, id buy them for my brothers for christmas.
>>740910060The fuck, are those 25 cents Steam cards?
>>740910964I have gifted because Mexico = Steam throws a fit because of it being a different region and steam cards ignore that
Indian 9/11
>>740911263They were decent "birthday gifts" especially when you put them in the birthday card, digital isn't the same.>>74091176925 euros anon.
im starting to believe the bottom 50% of people cause more damage than the top 1%
>>740910060This sucks... I live in the US and want to buy shit for my Japanese Steam account. What am I going to do?
>>740911263>>740910964I don't use them as gifts, I buy them because I don't trust any digital storefront with my credit card details. Same like when I buy on Amazon, I only use Amazon gift cards. I could probably use prepaid visa cards on Steam but then I'd have to pay an extra service fee to Visa compared to using Steam's own gift card. This is just another way to reduce privacy conscious options for consumers and we all know who's behind that.
>>740912754Buy visa cards
>>740913135That's right. Thank you.
That sucks, i always like asking for those for my birthday or christmas because I don't really want anything in general
>>74091176925 euros you dumb animeposter
>>740912587>>740913457>25 eurosSo basically, 25 american cents
>>740912754Steam accepts PaySafeCards. They're 16 digit codes made to transfer money to digital storefronts, usually gacha games. You can buy them at the same places you bought Steam gift cards, they're even in the OP image.
>>740913082Your FBI handler laughs every time you do this just fyi
>>740910964I used to buy them when I was a teenager with no debit/credit card.
>>740910142it's just that scammers use gift cards to create paid steam accounts without using banking info, so they never get permanently blacklisted.
>>740910964I did when I would pick up groceries for my parents.>and some steambux for meSo I guess, technically, my boomer parents were getting scammed by me.
>>740910142The whole point is that people are going to stores, copying down codes, then running a program that tries to redeem them the moment the card has been activated, beating the buyer to the punch.
>>740913667Me and Greg are on good terms. What I mean is the less vectors for my information to be leaked when there's a data breach the better. If I don't HAVE to give a CC or ID to a company I won't. I don't think Valve has had any major data leaks but that doesn't mean I can't plug that particular potential leak.
>>740910964I buy them at the convenience store when I want something
>>740913772That doesn't make any sense since Steam is still allowing digital gift cards to exist, and you can buy those without a steam account using guest checkout.
>>740913856That's impossible. You're retarded for even thinking that.
>>740913985combine it with >>740913856scammers make new premium accounts for free.
>>740913904My city had a crime wave come through with indians putting card info stealers on fucking everything and I got my CC info stolen twice. I just called up the bank, they reversed the charge, and I got mailed a new card.
>>740910060>gaming god gaben declares redemption is over
>>740913856>Cashiers are scanning cards that have already been scratched offHuh? If that's the issue then just do what Amazon did. Their cards are now sold completely sealed in cardboard contraptions that make it immediately obvious if someone has gone in and scratched off the code. There must be some other issue going on here for Steam to discontinue their cards.
>>740910964> that wasn't a boomer getting scammed by a jeet?I know a zoomer who got scammed by a drug dealer instead
>>740913856Nah that doesn't work because you need to scratch to reveal the codes, this is the "Hello sir this is IRS you will be in jail for tax evasion unless you do the needful and buy gift cards and send us the code" scam.
>>740910964I did a few years back>Credit card was running a special promotion if I bought stuff from best buy I would get a pretty hefty credit. >Steam cards were allowed. >Had a few games coming out I wanted to get and decided "screw it, i'll just buy steam cards and then pay it off instantly for the credit" >The cards ended up being half activated with like $60 worth not working. >Steam wouldn't help, said I needed to go through the vendor I bought it from (Which is fair)>Tried to return cards but local best buy said I had to go through their support to get it situated. >Spent a month with best buy support trying to get it fixed because the vast majority of people I spoke with were idiots and did something wrong and got bounced around. Never fucking again. I never wanted to strangle someone so goddamn much after dealing with those support people and managers and having to read out the same numbers again and again.
>Playstation Cards exist>Xbox Gamepass Cards Exist>Nintendo E-Shop Cards Exist>Fortnite Cards Exist>Roblox Cards Exist>Minecraft Cards Exist>Steam Cards can no longer exist because of Indian scammers
>>740914090I've plugged that vector by not living near Indians. Still I'd rather not have my info leaked at all than have to fix it after it has been leaked. If it means having to buy a physical gift card when I want a game then so be it. It also helps stop me from making impulsive buys during steam sales since it can only take money from my steam wallet.
>>740914583Please take your medication anon this level of paranoia is wasting your time more than its saving it. Some faggot stealing your CC info will just end up ripping off the jews at the bank than your own money.
Devastating news to indians
>>740910964the target stores near me only sell physical cards for stuff like restaurants. i haven't seen app store/game cards for a couple of years now.
>>740914437Valve's been fighting against physical goods for over 20 years now, this is just their latest offensive.
>>740914682Buying gift cards is way less annoying than getting a replacement credit card.
My local FUCKING gamestop stopped selling physical cards years ago and instead print the code on a receipt now. I wonder if that's still going to be allowed.
>>740915076pretty sure the receipt codes are essentially digital, so they should still be fine.
>>740913856>I have never seen a gift card in my life
>>740914437For some reason Valve seems to be allergic to increasing their employer count so maybe it's not surprising that they just cancel shit that gets too troublesome rather than hiring more staff to maintain it.
>>740914437>the only company without an Indian CEO doesn't want to be party to gift card scams
>>740910060Steam has officially outlived it's usefulness.
It's over
>>740910060steam itself is a scam
>>740915881>>740916012Saars, you still have google play cards. Don't cry.
>>740910964They're my primary payment method on steam and I've even done big purchases (like the deck and deck oled) with themYou save a bit of money if you have a gamestop membership compared to just paying directly on steamWhen I bought the cards for the deck oled the guy was hesitant to sell me the cards and had to do so in multiple transactions to prevent his system from stopping it, at that point I knew it was probably the beginning of the end
>>740910964I would buy Steam gift cards right before a sale so that I could also save money on gas at Kroger
>>740910060>Indian economy collapses as consequencebased valve
>>740910964Once because I didn't want my credit card info to be anywhere other than essentialsThen I used paypal
>Redeem... what Ranjesh? I afraid I... "gannod"Heartbreaking...
>>740916943Paypal's cashback sucks in all honesty. Kroger's 4x fuel points pretty much always coincides with a Steam sale, and that gives me a much better value.
>>740910964I use them to load up my turkish steam account with usdWhich imo is probably the real reason why they are getting discontinued
>>740910060Another thing non-whites have ruined for the rest of us.
>>740913082There are options other than credit card or gift card. Ones that do direct bank transfers
>>740910964Well all gift cards are id legal money laundering, they take your legal currency which you can freely use anywhere and turn it into a worthless token that expires and cannot be refunded and cannot be used outside its terms and conditions.Only giga goyim use giftcards of any kind and there is no counter argument to this so dont even try
Good.Finally a way for me to leave this cursed hobby. Same happened when LoL implemented Vangaurd, never looked back.
>>740910060I've never even seen these in stores, only shit for consoles. Valve has damn near 0 physical presence.
>>740910060>>740910964Took me four different stores to find one the last time I bought a Steam gift card. I was really confused by this so when I finally found one I asked the cashier why they're so hard to find now and she said the same thing, that it was because people were using them for scams. But I don't get why it's Steam specifically and not other cards that people do these scams with?
>>740919482It happens with google and apple gift cards as well. I guess the more ubiquitous the card the better for scammers simply because it's more likely it is to be stocked near any potential victim.
>>740914437Valve only has a piddly 350 employees. That's a lot less manpower to deal with things like this. For comparison Nintendo has 18,000 and Microsoft has 112,000.
>>740920080>Microsoft has 112,000228,000 according to Wikipedia. What do they even need that many people for?
You can still just buy a prepaid debit card and use it to buy steam wallet monies.
>>740913082>I buy them because I don't trust any digital storefront with my credit card details.So why do you even have a credit card?Do you realize that even if you only ever use it for physical purchases at a store, the moment you use the card, that payment goes through a digital stores, right?The only difference between buying physical with a card and online with a card is that physical you insert the card/use contactless, online you type out your card number, after that step there is literally zero difference.
>>740920207Damn, you're right, got it mixed up with Sony's 112,000. That is a shitload of people and yet Windows just keeps getting worse.
>>740920295tech companies spend 100k salary per head just to stuff gift bags, make viral videos during work hours, and hop on a team call by the pool.
>>740920491meant for >>740920207
>>740911769>American Tranime troon is retardedLike clockwork
>>740910964i used them to get all the jp region locked games i wanted
>buy fake currency that only can be spend on one storeCan amerisharts explain this meme? some are even more expensive that just buying the thing
>>740922396admit the sport is called soccer, or the microtransactions will be relentless.
>>740910060Damn, that sucks. I've had my account for nearly a decade and I avoided putting my card on it this entire time because I just bought Steam Cards. This also helped me avoid making impulse purchases whenever anything went on sale. End of an era.
>>740910964I use them to top up my wallet, sure I could do it online as well but fuck giving payment processors it's cut.
>>740916012>the devious oil baron
>>740914039>>740914160>>740914245>>740915561Not that anon but he's right.Here's how you do it:>obtain/steal a bunch of unactivated gift cards>use acetone, alcohol, and a heat gun to peel off the scratcher>write down code>glue scratcher back on, looks good as new, impossible to tell>enter store, place all your gift cards back on the rack>unsuspecting shoppers purchase it>you have a script at home autoredeeming every code every thirty minutes for when someone activates itThis isn't arcane magic, tampering with gift cards has been a thing for decades now. There's zero counterplay.Here's a fucking .gov website explaining this:https://www.ice.gov/hsi/news/hsi-insider/recognize-respond-gift-card-fraud-retailOr you can just google gift card resealing for news articles.
>>740913512Maybe 30 years ago lol
>>740910060Do they realise how much will this hurt an already struggling Indian population? Awful, racist news.
>>740910060digital gift cards are still available tho
>>740923271that's an insane amount of work for very little returnworking a mcjob would be less effort
>>740910964I buy them on rare occasions becuse there are gift card promo events to get grocery discounts.
>>740923863Skimming and resealing a card takes under five minutes, and most gift cards can each hold up to $2000.
I use cash tp áy for the occasional stream sub and add to steam funds over my card, steam is one of the sites I dont mind having my card in there, but I can at least go pay in a store, in cash via printed QR I guess (we got that here),
>>740924737>áy
>>740924957oh noes a typo
So the only safe way to load your wallet is gone? Thanks. I will sure as hell not give Valve my banking informations, lol
>>740910060Saar nnoooooooo!!!! Do the beedfil and reinstate! REINSTATE THE NEEDFUL SAAR!!!
>>740925583But a brown person typoGross
>>740926912Can't you just buy a prepaid credit card or something?
>>740910060Does anyone except scammers actually use these cards anymore? I've not hear of or seen anyone buy these things in like 10 years. If your privacy conscious then it sucks ass that these options are going away (not just from Steam but in general) and at this point banks should start issuing one-time CC/BC info (In general, I know some banks actually already do this) just so that people can pay for shit without being worried about their cards being scraped and used to drain their accounts.With that said, at this point the only way to combat scammers and cheaters is if Steam and other online retailers start forcing some sort of digital ID that proves that whoever is using the cards are who they say they are, banks can do this without giving out your info though, they could just give you/them a "General Bank ID" number that gives the retailers nothing to go on except that they know where the money is coming from. If cheaters can't buy CS2 access anymore since their Bank numbers have all been blocked then a perma ban would actually be permanent instead of relying on banning hardware that can just as easily be swapped or spoofed.I hate that we live in a world where everyone needs to prove their innocence all the time but this is what we get for not enforcing the rules on a societal basis and allowing bad actors to go unpunished for things just because they have a lot of money or access to soft-power.
>>740927387it's definitely a thing to gift kids who play on PC. i also wondered who tf would ever need or want a steam gift card and then my younger cousin asked for them for a couple Christmases in a row and it made perfect sense.
>>740920315>So why do you even have a credit card?The only reason I ever had one was for visiting the US, as mutts love to use them as alternate IDs
>>740927387>and allowing bad actors to go unpunished for things just because they have a lot of money or access to soft-powerThis is mostly because this shit is run by organized crime in shithole corrupt countries like India, China and Russia and their local authorities refuse to co-operate internationally to put a stop to it because it's actually a decent enough chunk of their local economy.
>>740927568>their local authorities refuse to co-operate internationallyAt that point I would just say "Fuck it" as a retailer and just stop servicing those countries in the global market and just put them in a little cut-off play pen where they can scam the shit out of each other without affecting paying customers who don't systematically break the rules.When I was younger I thought that Region locking sucked ass but as I've gotten older I actually want companies to do it more and enforce it harder. Barriers like being unable to play with someone on console is retarded since the communities are mostly the same but being unable to get away from turd-world retard who can't help but cheat and scam all the time is so bad that I'd rather not play any game that doesn't lock them out of the game by default.I've come to understand and sympathize with japs and their eternal crusade of keeping gajins out of their online vidya, I just wish that jap devs actually made region locked versions of their games more often so that I can play them regardless. God I wish DDO was released in the west.
>>740911298they were the only way to purchase games on steam for young people without a credit cardstill are but kids just steal their parents' card details and get away with it
SAAR DO NOT REDEEM THE CARDSAAR DO NOT REDEEM IT
>>740910060The main motivation behind this is to crack down on account reselling and Counterstrike hackers. There must hundreds of millions of Steam accounts with only one game on it and who knows how many of them also have a VAC ban.
Steamies really are the mentally ill and deranged fanbase.They actively cheer on everything bad valve does while engaging in massive shitflinging spam against everyone else.
Do the /pol/roaches obsessively spamming about indians realize that in doing so they out themself and their steamie hut junior fanbase as majority indian? Every other gift card can exist just fine."w-we realy worry about le scamYeah sure the grey market gambling company is SOOOOO worried about scams bro. Totally has nothing to do with the further tightening of their monopoly and bowing to the payment processors telling everyone to censor and block because of fanatical evangelists.
>>740910964I buy them all the time becausdle I don't like putting my credit card on the internet due to having intense paranoia and a hatred of glowniggers.
>>740914437because it never was about scammers, anon.THE TRUTH IS: gaben made a deal with credit card jews & that entailed getting rid of any non-credit card payment like steam cards. the future is bleak, one day there will only be pirating left
>>740927349Even dumber. Who has time for this bullshit.
>>740929673you sound mad, Ranjeet
>>740927387I did. An anonymous way of loading my wallet. Are you retards all giving your financial informations freely to Valve?How retarded can you be?
>>740910964I got one for a friend with a limited user account so he could remove that restriction to play deadlock. digital gift cards or gifted games wouldn't work
>>740927387Careful. You sound like a sane, white person who is only three meals away from staging a coup and retaking the first world.
>>740923271>>you have a script at home autoredeeming every code every thirty minutes for when someone activates itThis is a software problem>There's zero counterplay.The counterplay is you don't let someone query valid codes repeatedly before purchase
>>740927387My family get me these for Christmas cause I'm apparently too hard to shop for. I'm 36, just get me bodywash like a normal person and I'd be happy.
