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No more cash only Steam game purchases /v/, it's end of an era.
https://windowsreport.com/valve-to-end-physical-steam-gift-cards-at-retail-stores-by-end-of-2026/
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btw save these for novelty value
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This service isn't for you. Please stay tuned for future services that are a better fit for you.
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>"I want a $20 steam gift card"
>"that will be $23"
>wow what a deal!
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>>740943569
I don't know what scammer you were buying them from but every retailer I've ever used only charged you the amount of the card itself. You don't pay tax or anything on it.
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Wasn't their physical cards a big part how they got so big in the first place? They were practically dealing at a net loss to reach out more people
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>>740943923
now that they're big enough they don't need it anymore.
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Why would Gaben hurt India like this?
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>>740943923
Yeah, that's why they kept them for this long despite the rampant scamming making the cards horribly unprofitable.
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WHY DID YOU REDEEM IT
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it's over for steamies
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when you learn that people actually fall for the "buy gift cards to pay for your debts" type scams you have to wonder how those people survived through life up to that point. Its amazing how retards somehow find ways to (barely) stay afloat.
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>>740943923
They said it allowed them to expand to other countries that weren't used to digital yet back in the 2010s like Japan. But I can imagine less and less people have been buying them as the years go by.
https://youtu.be/wrvr02SiHY4?t=2255
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>>740947861
They're still keeping digital gift cards so I assume scammers will just move to that.
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Oh no how will jeets get dogshit indie games for $2 now
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>boomers ruin yet another thing
What a fucking surprise there.
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>>740943370
Love these lil niggas like you wouldn't believe. Gonna buy all of these fuckers in my vicinity and load up my steam wallet. RIP to buying games on steam with cash money, we had a good run. Fuck jeet scammers.
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>>740947861
They mostly target old people, you can see their tactics on youtube scambait videos some 80 year old that thinks their whole bank account has just been drained won't be thinking straight, that's why you shouldn't pity pajeets they feel no loss of izzat by stealing the life savings of the elderly.
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>>740943552
Anyone can make fake versions of it. Not worth it.
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>>740943552
You know, that's a good idea. I have a $50 card on my desk that I haven't tossed yet.
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>>740948390
I hate indians but let's be honest: the elderly should not be in charge of their own money if they are so stupid as to squander it like that.
Just give it to your children already, why do they have to wait until you're dead to start doing something with it?
You can keep shit like a house, a car and other physical stuff that you want to enjoy in your last years but just give your savings to your children and fuck off.
If an old fuck doesn't trust their children with their money then they doubly do not deserve it, since they failed to raise proper members of society.
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>>740948475
Nobody will buy your psa 10 steam gift card in the future lil bro
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>>740947861
Because >we live in first world countries where the state provides a minimum level of trust in institutions. A normal person could feasibly never personally get their trust broken by a bank or company and they can live decades without any need to spot fakeness.
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>>740948245
They use the steam cards to buy CSGO skins and then sell them for real money
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This sucks
I buy these frequently to use as payment for other shit rather than dealing with paypal, effectively RMT but whatever.
>Meet dude in game
>Give him $20 in steam credit as payment for art/resources/whatever
>Basically as good as $20 to people you find within video games communities because that's likely where it'll go anyway
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>>740950156
That's not what they do. That's what small scammers or children might do, but large scammers, like actual indian scam centers, actually have products on Google Play, on Steam, on Microsoft, on Walmart, Target, etc. They do not resell them or participate in the Steam Market. They redeem the gift cards on burner accounts or hacked accounts and then they buy their product on the storefront. That immediately washes the money at super low fees and how they can make millions of profits every year without crashing an economy.
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>>740943370
they dont do this because of scams
they do this because of age verification
they are lying if they say this is because of scams and they know age verification is unpopular so they pretend its not about that
but they're trying to get rid of the physical ones because kids can buy them and they're anonymous, while digital cards have to be bought with a credit card and will remain
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>>740950821
But digital ones can be bought with prepaid cards can't they? Those are also purchasable by kids. I really do think it's scammers and they're just tired of policing physical gift card theft. They're a pretty small company compared to Nintendo, Microsoft, etc.
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>The company says the move is part of a broader effort to combat gift card scams that continue to affect users worldwide.

So is this the fault of Changing Consumer Habits, or some other demographic?
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>>740943370
what are even the point of these?
For people who don't own a debit card?
I feel like people without debit cards would have bigger worries than video games. Like food and shelter? How do they even have internet? lmao
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>>740951194
>Those are also purchasable by kids.
Every major bank already accepted to ban those for anybody under 18.
It is gonna be revealed in december and implemented by march 2027.
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>>740943370
The "scam" reason gotta be fake, right? I don't believe that's the true reason.
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>>740943569
I got em from Sam's club for 2% off face value and used a CC that had 2% cash back
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>>740952363
this man is making money while buying money!
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>>740951624
No, this is about organized scamming rings, not one off thieves. Basically you'd have people stealing the actual unactivated gift cards and then bringing hundreds of them to another location where other people carefully remove the packaging and/or the adhesive "scratch off" portion to reveal the codes without making it look like the cards were tampered with. They'd write down these codes for later, and then have their people try to subtly "restock" the tampered cards back onto shelves with everything put back into place. When the tampered cards are purchased they get activated at the register, by which point the scammers already have hundreds of machines trying to redeem their codes constantly in hopes that they manage to get the funds before the guy that bought the card in the store has time to enter the code himself.

Steam Wallet POSA codes avoid all this since they're generated at the moment of sale and can be printed on a receipt if bought at a physical store, meaning there's no physical card to tamper with, but Valve hasn't said if these are going away too.
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>>740948602
>Just give it to your children already
Boomers are allergic to this.
They insist on sitting atop their dragon hoard, letting it collect dust, until they expire.
It's a pathology that will be studied by future anthropologists.
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>>740943370
Just buy a prepaid debit card
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>>740943370
BENCHOD DO NOT REEDEEM. BLOODY.
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I have to stack up on these because i sure as hell wont give Valve my banking infos. Literally the only safe way to buy on Steam.
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>>740952683
So how do i fucking load my wallet when i dont want to fucking give Valve any financial details?
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>>740953845
Hope that Steam Wallet POSA codes aren't going away or use a Paysafecard.
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>>740952683
>Steam Wallet POSA codes avoid all this since they're generated at the moment of sale and can be printed on a receipt if bought at a physical store, meaning there's no physical card to tamper with, but Valve hasn't said if these are going away too.

Arent these the same? What do you mean "also going away"?
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>>740953845
Buy a Prepaid card and register your billing address to it. It is more or less like a Burner Phone
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>>740954028
My billing address on Steam is a bunch of random numbers. Gaben doesn't need to know who I am. I'm going to have to dox myself for this to work.
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>>740954094
Sadly you will, just use your first and last initials, you don't need to use your full name.
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>>740953936
>Steam Wallet POSA codes

What are you talking about? I only used the fucking cards in the stores. Do you mean those or what?
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this only affects indians and other thirdsmen. I don't care
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>>740954028
Life is too short for this nigger shit. I wanna live in a society where i go into a store, pick a 100 dollars Steam card, go to the 18yo white cashier and get a flirt + my fucking games.
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>>740953976
Steam gift cards are actual physical cards Indians try to get you to buy over the phone. You take them home and scratch off the back to type in a code that's written on the back. These come from the Gaben factory with codes already printed on them, which are then "activated" at the register when you buy them.

Steam wallet POSA (point of sale activated) codes are generated and activated at the register and then printed on a receipt. There is no physical card for someone to steal and tamper with. Steam has only said that they're ending physical gift card distribution in stores, but they haven't said anything about these kinds of wallet codes. They might consider them the same thing, they might not. Only time will tell.
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>>740954321
prepaids cancelled due to india
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>>740954524
>Steam wallet POSA (point of sale activated) codes are generated and activated at the register and then printed on a receipt. There is no physical card for someone to steal and tamper with. Steam has only said that they're ending physical gift card distribution in stores, but they haven't said anything about these kinds of wallet codes. They might consider them the same thing, they might not. Only time will tell.

I never used this service. So how the fuck do i get those? My stores only have the Giftcards.
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>>740954669
Go to Gamestop and ask them. My local Gamestop in Canada stopped selling the physical cards years ago and only offers the printed receipt version. I assume any store that sells games will also have access to this service.
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>>740954860
>entering a Gamestop
>ever

lol
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>>740954961
Then die
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>>740955119
You first :^)
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>>740954524
>Have fun!
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>>740954296
>American when told people that value their privacy from huge corporations exist
Why are they like this?
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Always sad to see a physical/anonymous way of commercial interaction disappear.
At some point I do hope we get some form of legal digital currency which behaves like money but can't be transferred accross borthers or something so I can stop careing about all this.

Also lol at the obligatory genspat bait.
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One more step towards ending physical cash. Are you prepared for the end times /v/?
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>>740954542
they're too powerful bros
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>>740950497
While it sucks to lose physical cards you'll still be able to do this for online transactions. Digital cards sent to a username or email will still work.
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>>740958582
How do I buy a digital card with the $20 in physical cash I have in my wallet right now?
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Damn. I really liked scamming my parents out of 20-50 steambux whenever I would run errands for them.
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>>740943370
>checked my local Aldi because I remember them having shelf filled to the brim with steam cards
>not a single one left
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Just ban India from Steam, problem solved
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>>740948602
Because they are a demented generation whithered by years of leaded gasoline and chemical food. Their parents fucked up majorly with them
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>>740948602
I don't entirely disagree but I think most countries you'd have to set up a trust fund or something to do that and most people are retarded and don't understand what to do with their money in the first place
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>>740959840
A good approach would be either the Norwegian model of a sovereign wealth fund, or the Swedish tax free investment account with easy access to index funds.
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>>740958582
That does nothing for me wanting to pay cash my dude.
Anyway, I made sure to go out and redeem for saar
>Purchase limit of 5
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>>740961653
They probably don't even work anymore. I hope you're ready for a 6 month back and forth with customer support.
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According to https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/78E3-7431-1E88-AD59 it looks like Steam Wallet codes aren't going away so you can still purchase those, the question is finding places that will sell them for cash that aren't just more Indian scam networks.
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>>740961987
Redeems on my machine saar
>820,000 IDR on the background of the gift card page
kek
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>>740962451
No wonder Indians want steam cards for the price of a shitty indie game they can probably buy a house
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>>740943370
Oh well, time to pirate I guess.
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>>740943370
Guess i'm not buying anymore games on Steam then as I do everything in cash and I don't use jewish banks.
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>>740963471
you never bought steam games anyway thirdie
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>>740943370
So what the fuck do they expect people to do now? How do I buy a digital code without a gift card?
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>>740963471
where does your paycheque go to?
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>>740963874
You have to go to Gaben's house in person
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>buyed an amazon gift card for $100
>try to use it to buy steam gift cards
>only purchaseable with cards
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That's so retarded
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I'm irritated by this solely because I use my Stop and Shop rewards points to fund my steam games. Now I have to spend actual money which makes me less inclined to buy games, I guess.
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>>740963835
>you never bought steam games anyway thirdie
I have over 700 games on steam cunt.

>>740964031
>where does your paycheque go to?
Into my hand, in cash. It it is perfectly legal in Australia to be paid in cash, and to ask to be paid in cash.

I pay my bills in cash.
I buy my food with cash.
I buy my fuel with cash.
I pay your mum in cash.
I buy my vehicles with cash.
I bought my fucking house with cash (and some gold, which I also bought with cash)

Everything I do is in cash, I literally do not and will never have a jewish bank account.

https://www.ato.gov.au/individuals-and-families/jobs-and-employment-types/working-as-an-employee/receiving-cash-for-work-you-do

I mean what kind of a fucking retard would let someone else hold his fucking money somewhere he doesn't have access to it.
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>>740964496
Based
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>russians and indians ruin something else
i'm not even bothered anymore, I'm just hoping the nukes fall on those shitholes sooner rather than later at this point
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>>740964404
what
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>>740964496
Corporations fear this man
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>>740964496
I'm a leaf and I spent a few months working in my early twenties in australia and I met a few fuckers like you and It has forever endeared your country to me. Blaze on you glorious cunt.
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>>740943569
>still remember when I saw a wii points card back in 2010
>2000 points for $45
I hate retailer kikes so much
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>>740964496
Based Bruce.
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>>740943370
This made me remember that I have a smartphone now so I wanted to give paysafe card another chance again.
It still did not recover my 10€ I had left from redeeming a 20€ card on gog and oh boy did it take hoops to get a log in.
I literally am unable to change my old phone number because to change it email and push notifications from the shitty app do not work, only the old phone number.

Also I am a fucking boomer so I have no idea how you actually access a push notification for 2 factor while actually using the phone. Shit only works while the phone is in screen off standby mode.
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>>740944950
>le scam talking point
>implying the house loses when a gambler loses a gamble
RETARD
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Reminder: You can still get steam codes with cash, just instead of a card, it gets generated at the POS and printed onto a receipt.
Nothing ever happens.
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Anyone noticed how the paid valve posters are trying so hard to make this a racial issue like it's 2016?
Don't make me call you seamonkeys because we all know you are all over this site trying to deflect while being cancer.
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>>740966026
>using the app
Just get the 16 digit code and use all the funds at once, don't link it to the app or anything. Don't leave any money on the card since paysafecard steals like $4 for every month you don't use it. That's how they make their money from boomers like you.
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>>740966113
You're too stupid to explain to, get spoonfed somewhere else.
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>>740966323
Where? If theres no physical card in the shop, wtf doy ou do? Go to the clerk and say you want a Steam Code or what?
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>>740966323
>source: my ass
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>>740943370
I'm gonna buy a bunch this weekend. Then like 20 years from now when Steam no longer has the ability to process gift cards, I'll throw a shit fit.
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>>740943923
In Asia back in the late 2010s yes.

But also it's 2026 now and less and less.people exclusively use gift cards besides maybe kids.
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>>740951796
>what are even the point of these?
I work as a cashier at a store, and I've had parents and grandparents buy these for kids. Steam, PS store, and Roblox.
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>>740964496
>I mean what kind of a fucking retard would let someone else hold his fucking money somewhere he doesn't have access to it.
You know the world is upside down when a raging Aussie is the only one with any common sense.
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>>740966567
That's literally how Steam cards work in my country. The card itself doesn't contain a code. Instead, a cashier scan the barcode on the card like any other product, and gives you the paper with the code that the cash register prints out.
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>>740967704
So on the back there's nothing to scratch off? Wouldn't that solve the scam problem of people tampering with the cards? Why is Steam still getting rid of the gift cards instead of just doing this in other countries?
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>>740967826
>So on the back there's nothing to scratch off?
Exactly, it's blank. This thread is actually the first time I hear there are Steam cards with scratch-off codes.
>Why is Steam still getting rid of the gift cards instead of just doing this in other countries?
I have no idea.
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>>740967826
>>740968276
Digital steam cards are still around and they said they're going to expand on those going forward in lieu of the physical ones.

So I assume they're just going to have retailers sell digital codes as well.
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>>740968921
You assume but it's not confirmed. They might be getting rid of them all together and just dealing with CC/Paypal payments only from now on. This might be because of all the age verification bullshit happening nowadays, scammers are just a scapegoat.
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>>740943370
Thank god there are zero games being released on Steam (or anywhere else for that matter) that i would ever want to purchase.

>>740950821
Correct and reasonable answer.

be a bad cattle NEET = social credit canceled = no more entertainment
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>>740969467
They literally say in the FAQ that they plan on improving the digital side.
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>>740969689
> improving the digital side

they can improve the digital side by clipping the service cables that go into india, and putting that entire god forsaken nation into a technological black hole.
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I hate indians so fucking much, anons.
Did you know that gypsies have their genetic roots in India.
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>Being so stupid you fall for something like this and cause an entire method of privacy focused payment to be discontinued
The real culprit here is retarded boomers and how companies still cater to them first and foremost
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>>740970741
how do they cash in on the cards? you can't sell steam wallet credit, and buying gifts is retarded when you can just get games from key resellers
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>>740948602
100% this
I see boomer with million in saving giving away her money to some random brown fucks with a sob story yet leaves zero cents to her own flesh and blood.
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>>740971375
They sell the account, like, "Brand new Steam account (USA) No 2FA with $200 steam credits, price $100.
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>>740971375
There's a couple of different ways. Off the top of my head:

1. They just straight up sell the code to someone else for cash, at a discount to make a quick profit, on any online marketplace. If you put a $50 code on sale for $40 chances are you'll sell it within minutes and that's $40 profit.

2. The scammers also have products for sale on the marketplace the gift card is for, so they just buy their own products. This is mostly for money laundering large amounts. A scammer can shit out a Unity Project and sell it for $50, then use the giftcard code to buy it and come out with some profit, minus Steam's 30% cut. This is extremely hard to crack down on since they're selling a legitimate product and the money comes from a legitimate purchase.

3. They use the money to buy physical items on burner Steam accounts, and then sell those items on other marketplaces. Stuff like Steam controllers, Steam decks, etc. IIRC this works with stuff like CSGO knives since they also have external marketplaces where you can buy them for cash.
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>>740943370
This is a bit alarming if they decide to push age verification faggotry
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>>740948803
the fact card and game grading even exists in the first place is proof enough that we will actually see retards buy and sell PSA 10 steam cards.

literal clown world
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>>740953845
You can buy them with paypal at least
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The only people who ever bought these are literal children who saved up allowance and skipped lunch or retarded grandparents who think gifting money is too boring
Nobody will miss these and if you do, you should probably finish your homework
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>>740973236
>I don't want to give Steam my financial details
>So I will give them to Paypal instead, a company with a worse track record for data breaches which suffered a major 16 million user data leak just this year
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>>740973472
these "financial record" retards are hilarious, the only way you will never leave a trace is if you used cash your entire life. it's like those people who complain about muh user data while simultaneously using google to figure out how to suck their own dick
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Arent there a fuckton of cash to digital services these days? And Steam supports them too.

I've got one where I just top up through my convenience store via cash.
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>>740973810
name some
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>>740974334
I used Paypay when I visited Japan. A britbong friend I think uses Paysafe.

I know when my brother last took a vacation across SEAland, there's been a ton of those cash to digital money too.
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>>740964496
yeah you're full of shit lol
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>>740975191
Out of curiosity how does it work if you're in another country? Doesn't Steam give you shit because your IP is in a country it doesn't recognize as yours and you're adding foreign funds? Not that it's much of an issue, just top up your wallet before heading off to another country.
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>>740975503
It takes into account the local payment method you use. Thought it does mean you can't change regions for a while.

Then you just use the usual payment method in your locality and/or whatever gives them the right billing address then it turna back.
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>>740943370
>GABEN MOTHER BENCHOD BLOODY YOU
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>>740973017
this is 100% due to age verification
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>>740971962
and then steam finds this and bans the account because selling accounts is against TOS
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>>740977891
Not their problem, they already made the sale.
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>>740977891
>and then steam finds this
LOL LMAO
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>>740947861
>he doesn't pay his tax debts in Google Play gift cards
ngmi
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>>740943370
blame grifters and scammers

they always ruin everything
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>>740976856
age verification is a euphemism for (((KYC))) and (((AML))), which is the real end-game. also, bot detection so advertisers can get larger ad payouts
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>>740970741
the pic made me cry laughing, thanks anon
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>>740943370
Just get a digital card, faggot. Walk up to (insert retailer here) and say, "gimme a 20$ steam code receipt, here's 20 real monies". Done. Or get a PaySafe card, or a burner credit card with only set amount of monies in it that isn't affiliated with your main bank account. This shit isn't hard.
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>>740981728
how do you add funds without using your bank account genius?
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>>740981204
what are those
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>>740981728
>anon gets put on an FBI watchlist for drug smuggling and money laundering because he didn't want to give Gaben his CC details
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>>740943370
>my bank doesn't offer debit cards that work online
>too poor to be offered a credit card
I'm screwed.
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>>740983079
Your best bet is going up to the cashier and getting a steam wallet code printed on a receipt, if those are still being sold or not. Valve hasn't specified.
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>>740982661
Jokes on you, I'm already on one, so it doesn't effect me.
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So how am I supposed to buy Steam games now? I'm not giving Gaben my credit card number
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>>740943370
>The company says the move is part of a broader effort to combat gift card scams that continue to affect users worldwide.
Curse Vishnu.
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You know this is going to get kids to not get into Steam as much, and more into Roblox, right?
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>>740983638
I've watched all of Kitbogas videos and they always ask for Google play cards, not once has it been Steam. I can't imagine Steam cards are a big indian scammer target compared to other companies so the scammer thing makes no sense.
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>>740975341
hes not.

had some tradies in recently, can either pay them $2000 in cash, or $2200 digitally, and this wasn't some tiny cowboy thing, the dude was following up on a full kitchen renovation from 5 years back, installed some extra outlets, ran some cat6, swapped out the range hood.
got the invoice 2 days later all official.

we have laws to make paying in cash simple, you still pay tax on it, you just dont need to deal with banks or any of that bullshit if you dont want to.

credit unions are also alright, but they have their own fees.
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>>740983878
I think Epic could have done miles better with epic games store if fornite cards were Epic cards instead that also were for fornite, so not all of it could be fornite only which would be better for their ecosystem.

Value going against that is retarded and is only going to bottleneck the future audience.
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>>740984359
Epic was never going to steal Steam's userbase no matter what they did
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>>740983638
Good. Steamies deserve to suffer for this dumbass decision.
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>>740983448
paysafe card
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>USA
>only see cards and paypal
>not even trustly or paysafe shows up
What is this bullshit? Is Steam a voluntary slave to the card companies? Both companies operate in America fine.
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>>740943370
Steam cards like this are mostly for third worlders who don't have any bank accounts and thus have no access to credit and/or debit cards.
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>>740948886
>Because >we live in first world countries where the state provides a minimum level of trust in institutions. A normal person could feasibly never personally get their trust broken by a bank or company
I guess the 2008 financial crash didn't happen
Or the dotcom bubble, or the S&L crash before it, or the OPEC 70's crash before it, or etc etc etc
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>>740991049
yes you could very easily never experience direct consequences of any of those.
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I have literally never used one of these before.
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>>740943370
>Steam age verification gate starts with removing unverifiable gift cards
>/v/ celebrates
Why is /v/ such a troon despite waving the nazi flag?
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>>740964496
This is retarded. Anon you can get a prepaid credit card. Get one for 50 quid, add funds to steam wallet for 50 quid, done. It's not a real credit card so you toss into the bin after. It's the same thing as getting a steam gift card but you're entering a card number instead of steam gift card code.

I know people who insist on not using bank accounts like you and even they use prepaid cards.
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>>740991258
reminder that age verification is just the PR-friendly version of AML/KYC (aka privacy rape)
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>>740991381
GC gives you the full value. The prepaid credit card takes an extra flat fee which is total BS
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>>740991381
In the states I do believe you still need a credit card to buy a prepaid credit card. Which defeats the purpose of private exchange, real currency, or an alternative to the credit card mafia. Heck it makes you more dependent on them and next time they want to get rid of any violent video game or toxic masculine game, you wont be able to stop them.
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>>740991258
nigga you still need to put the card into an account.
theres no "secret" here, you're putting your physical person, on store CCTV purchasing a time stamped object, then linking that time stamped object to your videogame account.

if someone gave a shit you are still easily traced.

do i like linking my real life government issues ID to a service that hands than info off to fucking anyone who asks? fuck no, but at the same time its PROBABLY fine as long as your not using your steam account as a horrific porn horde its probably fine.
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>>740991598
I mean you still get most of the money. I don't get why Valve is doing this. If scammers want to scam Valve they'll just do so with prepaid cards. It's a hydra that you'll never be able to kill.

>>740991647
Wow that's shit. Where I'm at I've paid for them in cash multiple times.
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>>740943370
I bought a few cards yesterday. Sad that ones in the past I have used I have thrown away. Wish I kept them. To keep as memories.
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>>740943370
>SAR DO NOT REDEEM SAAR!
era has ended, finally: FUCK INDIANS.
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>>740991963
more like CAN NOT REDEEM amirite?
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>>740983638
Maybe if it got discontinued a few years ago but Steam has too much momentum now
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>>740992210
yep, to think all of this is because of indians man... they can't seem to not shit up every corner, digital or analog of the world they go to, like damn man, they should learn to stop catching strays 24/7.



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