Steam is killing gift cards because of scammers
now you have no choice but to not redeem
>>741452446DO NOT REDEEM!!DO NOT REDEEM THE CARD!!!
I do not care about people getting scammed AT ALL.
Epic Games Store wouldn't let this happpen.
>>741452446so when will they ban trading? the trading market is chock-full of scamming. oh wait they won't because its an excuse for them to make more money.
>>741452446Steam ARE the scammers!
>>741452446I could have sworn they discontinued gift cards years ago.
memes aside, I really don't know about this digital cash only society we are heading towardsseems a little sus
I don't like giving out personal information unnecessarily, especially for spending money on digital items on digital stores, so gift cards have always been my only method for purchase. Steam will lose me if they go through with this.
>>741452446How does the scam work?
>>741453217Saaaaaaaar
>>741453082credit card companies have already lobbied for cash free societies and want to outright ban physical currency. visa is already paying small companies to quit accepting cash. i'm sure you've seen how nearly every vending machine has a taped off the coin slot and says "card only"
>>741452446how am i supposed to post bail for my grandson now
>>741453082Same>>741453217They call old people, tell them that they're the FBI or something, that they sent them money accidentally or some other excuse, and that they need to pay them back, and the only way to pay them back is to give them gift card codes. Old people don't know better, are intimidated, and do as they're told
>>741452446>because of scammersIts just one of the many excuses to get rid of the physical money.
>>741453082>aquajeet>google play giftcardsthe joke writes itself, it must be bait.
This is a direct attack by Valve on the GDP of India
>>741452653Okay Patel
>>741453298Right, Steam aren't even the most common. It does sound like an excuse. I guess other companies will follow their example soon.
>>741453246I'm just curious. The only places I even see steam gift cards around here is specialized hardware/videogames shops.
>>741453298Are you implying there is not a massive Jeet and African scam centers that have thousands upon thousands of people try to scam old people and retards?
>>741453481He wasn't. He was implying that Valve doesn't actually care about the scams.
reminder that digital money will only benefit youif your government suddenly decides to go full communist, like you predict they will, they will have a very hard time seizing all your money if you can simply move it overseas at the touch of a buttononly retarded boomers who own physical property will be fucked by the communist transition
>>741453298Indian post
>>741452653Its a waste of their time and slows down their ability to respond to actual issues. Shit like this is unironically why we can't have nice things.
>>741453280>hoard all of your wealth like you’re saving for a McMansion and a Bugatti in the afterlife>wire thousands of dollars to a random haji over the phone because he told you toolol baby boomers
>>741453608No it doesn't. You just ignore it.
>>741452446Alright.
if you are retarded enough to fall for a scam then you deserve itother people shouldn't pay for your mistakes by having steam gift cards removed
>>741453572They can also disable your access to money with a press of a button. Your reasoning only works with, maybe, cryptocurrencies.
>>741453298If I can't buy it with cash I'm not paying for it. Why I don't use Steam in the first place.
>>741453895not if your bank is in some backwater country like lithania or romania, who don't have to surrender all their assets to communist US
"buying" games at steam is a mistake in first placeyou never owned anything digital even physical things can be confiscated by government thieves but at least you could bury your treasure back then
>>741454078I sold steam accounts and transferred untransferrable licenseswithout "owning" themthere is no real downside to steam games
There is nothing wrong with scamming people. Greed is a virtue, not a sin.
all they need to do is ban gift cards in third world countries
I have never bought or received a gift card of any kind. My parents/grandparents/etc just gave me money instead and told me to buy something. (I don't even think they know what a "steam" is to be honest.) I feel bad for people that used them legitimately though but it literally will force you retards to grow the fuck up. Hahahaha. FUCK ALL YOU FUCKING LOSERS!!! HAHAHA!!! SUCK MY FUCKING DICK!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!
>>741454078>at steam
>>741454134>Steam goes out of businessWhat now retard?
>>741454196That’s not how it works.The indian scammers make dumb old people in first world countries buy the cards and give them the codes.
I've never even seen scammers ask for Steam gift cards in scambaiting videos. They always want more general stuff like Google
>>741454332anon... scambaiting videos are staged...
>>741453572There are several very dense layers of retardation in this post.You're fucking stupid anon and don't understand what money really is and cannot comprehend the full implications of putting something like your money online.
>>741454392It is common knowledge at this point they are racist /pol/ psyop
>>741454392ssshhh, don't tell him. he takes /v/ memes seriously and will feel insulted
>>741454467why does it work so well though? indians live scared in the first world nowadays despite them not doing anything to deserve that
>>741452446Now that they're becoming rare you guys think I can send a Steam gift card rated by PSA?
>>741453481I wonder if it's just desperation or if it's something like they just lack the ability to care if there's a victim. I always found it funny when people like white hat hackers try to get them arrested because obviously the cops there do not give a fuck man, there's so much undocumented crime in India that there's no reason for them to ever give a shit about hard to prosecute ones involving people outside the nation. Now even with the rise of AI scams that teens and youth are falling for, I still think that overall it'll eventually die out when the elderly simply age out of the target population either by death or by lack of ability to answer a call/hear one.What then?
>>741454532Third world scam centers are a thing though.
>>741454236nothing changes for me since some other company will acquire steam and I will continue to sell steam accounts
>>741454532whites know they are being replaced by intellectual and physical superior brahmin BVLLs so they lash out in angry
>they lash out in angry
>>741453082I legally can't get a bank account because of my disability. If they remove cash then I would literally starve to death.
Once again the Indian menace has ruined things for everyone. Total Indian death.
>>741452446gift cards will be extinct in like 10 years. steam just ahead of the curve.
Do you think this will affect their profits? If this service is provided in the first place it's because people clearly find it convenient.
>>741454532They "live scared" because people find them annoying as fuck and thus they're the ones who get turned on first when the economy gets shitty. Turns out when even shitty jobs are in high demand people hate competition they otherwise wouldn't give a shit about. There's simply so many of them that everything from university applications to jobs to housing to the web to dating to just space in general gets utterly clogged by Kaurs, Singhs, and Patels and it makes people hate it. It's nothing to do with the call centers people used to just think were something that even other indians hated and thus were outliers. There's simply too many of them, everywhere, and they keep bringing in more. People did not care when there was less than 5% of what there is now outside of the place and just regarded it as an exotic hot area with unusual culture. Now they're in everyone's face and it's annoying.
how exactly does this work for the codes that got printed on reciepts at a gamestop?are those going too or what? thats not mentioned in that infomost of the retailers that carried physical cards never printed them on reciepts if they ran out, only gamestop to my knowlwdge.who the fuck uses steam built in gift steam card shit? no one close to the amount of people who use physical cards..steam is losing millions of dollars since they make money off game sales, no gift card sales NO FUCKING GAMES BEING BOUGHT for you to take a cut fromtime to get back into torrenting again, you dont want my money no one gets it then
>>741452653And I am sure you don't care about broken windows either. Retard.
will regular gift cards still work? its the only way i ever do steam moneys so if not i guess i'll just pirate moar.
>>741453969Access to the bank itself can be blocked. You really don't know how any of this shit actually works, do you?
>>741455253>how exactly does this work for the codes that got printed on reciepts at a gamestop?I was wondering that too.
>>741455306If some pajeet knocks on your front door and convinces you to throw a rock at your own window, yes, I do not care.
>>741452446What's the skin color of these scammers?
>>741455647romanian, slavic and eastern european? you might not like the answer
>>741455253>>741455512They haven't said anything so nobody knows, the FAQ page is a little ambiguous since they still mention "wallet codes". If they're just worried about physical gift card scams where scammers actually steal the cards themselves and tamper with them then going receipt/emailed codes only would fix that. If they're worried about boomers reading out the steam gift card codes to indians over the phone then even those codes are going away too.
>>741453082Gaben is actually friends with palantir amongst all the other billionaires, get used to playing the game of life they create for us!
>>741452446That's fine.>game sales plummetNothing personal, you fat jew.
>>741452446I know I am the only person left in the united states that gets payed in cash and buys everything with cash but this really sucks for me specifically
>>741455770>scammers actually steal the cards themselves and tamper with themDo they actually do that? I've never heard of this, and it sounds unlikely.>If they're worried about boomers reading out the steam gift card codes to indians over the phone then even those codes are going away too.Not necessarily, getting the receipt requires speaking to the cashier, who should be able to figure out if someone is getting scammed. I hope this is the case.
>ma'am this is officer Johnson from the IRS your taxes are overdue and you will be behind the bars if you do not pay immediately>first you must go to gamestop and buy steam gift cards they are the only currency the IRS acceptsBoomers really fall for this?
>>741455772funny how after gaben was proven to not be related to epstein in any way niggers like you switched to just say all billionaires
>>741455770Do you know if there is any public discourse that might reach their ears so we can have some clarifications or maybe even change their minds?>>741455921Do you actually believe that will happen as a result of this? I hope so, but it seems unlikely.
>>741455964They worship the federal government and instantly kneel to anyone who invokes their authority without question yes
Why are there like 5 or so autistic anti steam threads?
>>741456013I know it will. I can see well into the future unlike most.
>>741455964people fall for AI voices and shit. imagine your son calling you from prison and needs "bail money". ok dear, what was our first dogs name? hangs up. boomers cant manage that.
>>741456041unrealfest just happened
>>741456041I like Steam, I dislike this decision specifically. I will stop liking Steam if they go through with it.
>>741455950>Not necessarily, getting the receipt requires speaking to the cashierAnon in every single one of these scams Ranjeet coaches the dumb boomer over the phone on what to say. If they can get them to wire money via a bank they sure as hell can coach them to get past a Gamestop employee who is probably still in high school and doesn't give a shit.
>>741456081They were falling for scam calls in droves long before they had access to AI though
>>741456041Unironically epicjeets.
>>741456013Try emailing steam support for clarification I guess. AFAIK nobody has tried or gotten a response.
>>741453082>we are heading towardseverything went paperless in the mid 10s. corporations also used it as a convenience so they could be perceived as 'going green' while taking your money instantly.
>>741456169they already went through with itif you want to buy gift codes you just buy the print out ones at the cash register because those are generated on the spot.
>>741452446Enter
Was this really a problem with Steam gift cards? It's always google play or itunes the scammers use.
>>741456586And do you have proof that they aren't discontinuing those as well? The OP pic doesn't mention it.
>>741456041consolefags are scared now that PC (Steam specifically) is the primary platform for every game
>>741456660they're digital codes, those aren't being phased out because they aren't generated until money changes hands, only the pre-done cards with the scratch codes because those can be tampered with before they reach the store.
>>741452653this. the existence of absolute fucking retards who are so dumb they get scammed by 76 IQ pajeets is not a reason to prevent me from being able to get money into my steam wallet with cash, as I don't use (((banks))) or (((credit cards))) in the first place. I guess I'll just never buy anything on steam again.
>>741456775>because those can be tampered with before they reach the store.I've never heard of scams that work like that.https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/78E3-7431-1E88-AD59>You can learn more about gift card scams here.https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/09A1-E754-1D86-DDC9This page talks about the phone scams, not whatever you were saying.
>>741453280ok but how to jeets turn steam wallet cash or google play points into a liquid asset?
>>741456991They sell the code to someone else for like half the price of what it's worth (doesn't matter to them since they got it for free)
>>741454532>despite them not doing anything to deserve thatyou can't be serious.
>>741457180you are falling for the pol psyop
>>741453082physical currency isn’t backed by anything. you’ve been in the game since birth and don’t realize it
>>741452446>We also continue to offer Steam Digital Gift Cardswhich are somehow scamproof whereas the physical cards are not? this obviously isn't about scams at all.
>>741456878>perpetually online incel living in mom's basement copes with a nonexistent credit score and an inability to leave the house to open a bank account due to crippling anxiety by saying ((JEWS)) THOHaha, fucking pathetic. I bet you have $0 to your name as well.
>>741455585Yeah I agree, if you're retarded enough to fall for gift card scams you legitimately are too stupid to be trusted making any decisions regarding your life
>>741452446Steam bastard bitch add paypal support for my shithole!
>>741456878>have literal zero net worth>cry about Jews on /v/
>/v/ thinks storefronts care about their gift cards that have been subject to manufacturing, shipping, stocking fees, and has been taxed twice already
>>741457240I live in a major insurance industry hub in the US and have had to suffer through mass jeet migration for over 20 years at this point. these cities who have imported fresh H1Bs don't understand this, but we have a generation of pajeet regression to the mean where I live, and I experience firsthand every day in my city what jeets as a population bring with them when they come here. they are a figurative and literal shitpeople who steal and rape and lie and scam and shit on everything and make our communities and societies worse, and we don't want them here.
>>741452446it says "at retail stores"meaning you will still have access to steam gift cards on steam itself, which is a far safer and smarter way to get them anyway.I genuinely don't understand why anyone would buy steam giftcards from a retail store. The only instance I can imagine this being useful is for some grandma or boomer who buys it to give as a gift to someone who has steam because they don't use it themselves
>>741457436that's some really specific and bizarre projection, bro. >>741457551>golem can't comprehend how you can exist off the leash of its jewish masters>thinks the number printed on its good goy bank statement is indicative of its individual valueyou are beyond help. you will die with your masters when the time comes.
>>741457374The types of people susceptible to jeet scammers can go to Walmart and get 1000 dollars in gift cards.They will not be able to log into steam and buy the digital gift card and then send it to india
>>741457809There is nothing smart or safe about blindly trusting banks and giving out your information to to anyone who asks for it so they can abuse it against you and then have it leaked to illegal criminals next time they have a data breach.
>>741457809the point of gift cards is exchanging my cash for games on steam. the removal of gift cards is not to prevent scammers, who will simply utilize their digital gift cards instead, but to attempt to move a significant portion of the population closer towards a globoshlomo-tracked and controlled digital financial environment without physical currency. oops did you say the wrong thing online? your digital currency is frozen, bad goy!
>>741456878i know you arent describing a real person's real life right now, but if you were, you'd probably know that you can buy prepaid cards at basically any store than sells gift cards, and they're useful for far more than a gift card that only works on steam
>>741457992are they types of people susceptible to jeet scammers big Steam video game consumers? how does this stop Steam consumers from being scammed via digital cards instead? if anything it makes it easier since it removes the avenue where the scammer has to talk the mark through walking to wal mart and buying the right cards.
>>741458010bank account information being leaked isn’t a big deal. it’s FDIC insured and banks have been dealing with it long enough that they can stop the transactions immediately, deactivate the card, and in some cases issue a new card on site immediately. the big problem is the government get breached or sending your mail to the wrong address because the DEI hire can’t read it doesn’t care and for whatever reason some places will issue loans without a photo id (student loans).
>>741452446>Indians can no longer redeem the Steam gift cardRIP. But that ain't my problem.
>>741452648SPBP /THREAD
>>741458206>I can't believe anyone WOULDN'T want to be a slave to the globalist bankers!then you need to get out more.
>>741458287>dude its not a big dealYou do you.>>741458301They never redeemed them in the first place, they sold them off. They aren't legitimate users.
>>741452446Tim Sweeny would never, he doesn't give a fuck about anyone
Anons, the scam isn't tricking boomers into buying steam gift cards over the phone.The scam is that they steal your legitimate gift card. Gift cards are insecure by default nowadays.>scammers steal a bunch of unactivated gift cards>peel back the scratcher, write down the code, replace it perfectly (you cannot tell it was tampered with)>re-enter store and place the gift cards back on the shelf>(you) buy it, see nothing wrong with it, pay for it at the register, it gets activated>scammers have a script activating the stolen codes 24/7, they redeem it before you even make it back to your carThis has become an absolutely massive fraud ring over the past decade specifically, to the point where a lot of retailers simply do not stock them anymore.Here's a .gov website talking about it:https://www.ice.gov/hsi/news/hsi-insider/recognize-respond-gift-card-fraud-retail
>>741455968MMM yAAAAAS daddy gaben is not like all the other billionairs *gurgles*
>>741458307you're talking to the demons in your head buddy nobody said thatI told you how someone would actually accomplish that in the real world if they had to buy things online other than fucking video games on steam
>>741458419>capitalism is when the government does stuff
>>741458359your life isn’t going to be over because someone logged into your Steam profile
This is the laziest, lowest-effort India hate on the internet right now. Meanwhile India is the world's fastest-growing major economy, the global IT powerhouse, running space missions, and home to 1.4 billion people with insane diversity — from Silicon Valley of Asia to ancient temples to modern megacities.Reducing an entire civilization to saar and do not redeem memes is just sad and pathetic. Easy target for small minds who can't handle a rising superpower. Cope harder.
>>741458498Again, you do you.
>>741458241It's literally just to stop them from complaining to steam after they get scammed. In lieu of "Can't do shit they're on the other side of the world" cops a lot of scam victims will attempt to harass the gift card purveyor or try to get chargebacks against them. Is this stupid? Yes, but people getting scammed by literal shit eating rapist monkeys are not intelligent to begin with.
>>741458526I will. I’ve never had an online account compromised in the 25 years that I’ve been on the internet
>>741458395I want to believe you, but that's not what it says on the Steam page about the discontinuation of gift cards. See >>741456982>We have seen reports of scammers contacting their victims over the phone and coercing them to purchase gift cards to cover payment for taxes, bail, debts, or delivery of money won in sweepstakes. The scammers often pose as agents of official agencies, such as the I.R.S., to convince their victims to comply.>Victims are urged to purchase gift cards at a retail shop in their area. Once the codes have been purchased and activated through the retailer, scammers ask the victims to scratch the codes and read them over the phone or take a photo and send via text message or e-mail.
>>741452446lol and just like that a percentage of jeet scammers just lost their livelihood
>>741458010>>741458072Fair points,but realistically, if you're already using steam, you're already part of that globo-homo "you vill own nothing" club
>42>Been on the net since 95>Never got scammedIts really not that hard.See there's this ancient boomer saying, if its to good to be true, then its usually bullshit. I was taught that at an early age.I keep forgetting zoom zooms are the dumbest generation on earth and fall for the dumbest shit.
>>741458395Interesting, thanks anon
>>741458741It's not young people who are falling for these scams
>>741452653You're fine with your technology-illiterate grandparents being scammed by some random jeet?
>>741452446if you don't have at least $100 in your steam wallet at all times, you don't know shit about vidya
>>741452446>live in high trust society>start hearing pajeet noises in the distanceoh no
>the point of a gift card is to move my anonymous money to a non-anonymous account that has my information and activity tied to it so I don’t have to use an account that has information and activity tied to it peak retard. where does your “cash” come from?
>>741458848A steam account only has your email, IP, and phone number by default. Did you just self-report that you didn't anonymize those?
>>741458948I never even gave it my phone number.
>>741458395thats not a thing, you cant peel off the to get to the codenot on leafland codes, theres a shiny silver over the code, plastic under it so when you scratch it off you dont fuck up the code, that plastic is a sticky tape over the code on the cardboard packaging, you cant peel that off safely to get to the code without it being ripped offyou wouldnt even beable to tuse old method of using a hair drying to peel tape off shit.you cant be constantly running a script trying to add in a code since everything has a limit to how many attempts are made before you are locked outi want to see a video of these methods working
>>741458948you’re more likely to have your mail stolen by a postal worker than your bank account hacked. I hope your retard checks don’t have any personal info on them
>>741458729Technically that's just using the dollar in general. You can argue that you are still voting on aspects of the globohomo and still have the right to not participate or to fund a competitor with a gift card system or better yet a competitor that gives you full rights to an owned digital copy and not just access. This can backfire in steam over the long run when the credit card companies flex their muscle again on too toxic masculine games or violent ones. Hope its got a backup for when that happens.
>>741458813My grandparents get scammed by literally everyone. They can't get their roof cleaned without falling for some made up sob story muh 5 starvin granchillins
>>741452446I WILL NOT put my card info on steam.I WILL ONLY add money through cards.I WILL still use cash.
>>741452446When will the saaricide end?
>>741459167Good.
>>741459046the point is any attempt at circumventing digital surveillance is a fools errand. buying gift cards is a waste of money because you have to pay travel to get them and you pay tax on the purchase twice. just set up two factor authentication on your accounts.
>>741452446>Steam is killing gift cards because of scammersi think it would be cheaper if steam hired assassins to deal with the call centers in india.no one would complain, either.it might actually be a case where the courtroom judge directly informs the jury about the ability of jury nullifcation and that they can not be held liable for their verdict.>>741453082>seems a little susanyone who uses physical stores often enough will encounter a case where "the system is down" and they get to wait for it to come back online.imagine it didn't come back online.especially if you said the no-no wrong think parts out loud, like if you lived in the UK and said that the rapists of 250,000 children should be executed."the system is down" ... exclusively for you.
>>741459209>just let yourself be surveilled okay?
>>741459339you’re already being surveilled
>>741455253This kek
>>741459361Not as much as you.
>>741452446society isn't hard enough on scammers desu
>>741459209i walk to get steam cards, no costyou are not supposed to be taxed on buying a gift card, whatever shit country you are in they are scamming youthey tax your steam purchases now which is bullshit
>>741459409>says the retard living on government checks
>>741459421if you get scammed, then it's a skill issue
>>741459026>here's a government website that says this is happening>"that's not a thing"?Do you think anti-tamper scratchers are some magical word-of-god protection?
>>741459209Nah because the surveilor now has to choose to expend resources on tard # 325534436. The paranoid power schizo will. Besides you already travel for groceries, you add it to your everyday buys. The 2 tax thing is a gotcha certainly however when the state is the surveilor, it will have to spend more resources to uncover by nature.
>>741459468you are brown
>>741458395>>scammers have a script activating the stolen codes 24/7you think steam wouldn't detect nonstop pings on its api on unactivated card keys?
>>741459517>gov don't lie to their citizensoh boy kid
>>741452446Don't exactly believe that. Spotify is getting rid of their cards cause there's no tax and you save money. It's hard finding them in the past year.
Wait a minute, how are scammers checking if the code works 24/7 if you have to add funds to an account to check if it works in the first place? Once wallet funds exist in an account you can't sell the money. Are they selling steam accounts? It don't add up.
All retailers are. In Australia whenever I get a PSN card I always get some scam warning at the checkout, plus you can't even use store gift cards to get them anymore. Indians ruin shit for everyone
>>741454693thats what they want because disabled people are a drain on the economy
Why do governments not attempt to educate their 65+ year old populations on scams? I understand it's stupid but these are people with reduced function and a poor understanding of the world that began to form after they hit 40.
>>741459625Once a scammer redeems a gift card, they have the funds, right?There's a few options from there:>sell the account itself with X funds on it>sell games to other accounts by gifting them it (most key reseller sites have this option)>use the funds to buy their own game (or microtransactions in their own game) and just eat the 30% Valve takesThis is also true for other kinds of gift card scams, like with google play gift cards.
>>741459537unless you’re running a virtual machine for steam 24/7 you can be found even then there would be a paper trail of gift cards and it’s very likely the cashier could identify you or just turn over the cctv footage
>>741458729people say that steam is "owning nothing" but I have a 100TB RAID setup with every game I bought on steam (and many others) already downloaded, and none of them require me to be online to play them.
>>741457438Third-worlder externalized morality bullshit.You morons always say shit like this.
>>741452653don't be surprised when people extend that same gratitude back to you.
>>741453872This is brown logic 100%. It's why you never achieve anything.
>>741452446>all the gift card scammers shift focus to stealing entire accountsGee, thanks Gay Ben.
>>741459779Valid but it the surveilor had to hire the goon or run the AI datacenter to do so. Which helps in mass when everyone starts caring about surveillance. This is a feedback loop that leads to either faster decline or fairer resolution. Also we just had Covid, if you feel ill its just safer for everyone if you wore a mask ;).
>>741452446It's Over...
>economy of India suddenly starts tanking
>>741459801in this particular case it's true, though. yea it sucks when your retarded grandma gets scammed, but that doesn't make her any less retarded, and it's partially YOUR fault for not protecting her.
Have any of you tried contacting Steam Support?
>>741459806I do not care about the opinions of 75 IQ scam victim retards.
>>741459962I’ll be fighting back, not hiding
>>741454785I'm all for hating the indian retards but you ever notice that we don't give chinese shit anymore? I'm almost certain at least some of this is pushed to take the heat off chang.>>741460021No, I think you shouldn't do crime instead of trying to crimeproof everything. The fact that you don't understand this betrays you.
>>741458813Grandparents get scammed no matter what. They're attracted to scams like how little kids are attracted to sharp objects and electricity.
>>741459919>>741459542t. fell for scamsmaybe have better opsec next time retards
>>741460265"If I don't scam them someone else gonna scam em" - (((you)))
So basically there is nothing that we can do and we are screwed.
>>741460223boomer americans absolutely love being grifted and hate anyone who wastes the opportunity to grift them. they love nothing more than for some zesty young buck black man to show up at their front door and doing the whole shuck and jive routine to swindle them into paying a fuck ton for some useless garbage. their own kids be damned
>>741460775Nah there's a way but its more loops. When there's a will there's a way. Rather not give scammers ideas tho.
>helped the environment, between 2008 and 2019, Tim Sweeney has purchased and dedicated over 50,000 acres of North Carolina land to conservation, the most notable being the Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre natural area that contains more than 130 rare and threatened plants and wildlife species meanwhile Gabe is destroying the ocean and sealife with his fleet of yachts>revolutionized game development with the Unreal Engine>funded the PC ports of the Kingdom Hearts series and NEO: The World Ends With You>is funding Fumito Ueda's new game gen ATLAS>Only takes a 12% from devs meanwhile Gabe the jew takes a 30% cut>regularly gives you free games>Valve has been involved in three major high-profile class action lawsuits, The UK Antitrust & Overcharging Lawsuit, New York Attorney General Loot Box Lawsuit and Nationwide US Loot Box Gambling Class Action>Epic Games is still selling Fortnite gift cards and puts in effort to prevent scamming unlike Valve who gives up and discontinues their steam cards.Tim isn't your enemy, Gabe is.
Understandable. Have a nice day.
>>741452446Maybe we can sign a petition to get the EU get valve to Stop Killing Gift cards
I'm going to redeem this card
>>741456605What is this?
>>741459616>SpotifyApparently Spotify doesn't do receipts anymore either
>>741452446LMAO WE WON DIGITALBROS
>>741453082i haven't paid in cash for anything in 15 years, last time i had cash on me was when me and a bunch of friends went to a week long music festival cuz all the foodtrucks there only accepted cashi couldn't care less
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>>741459616Steam taxes you on checkout, they don't care where you get the money. Also they don't get that tax money they have to pay it to your goberment so it wouldn't matter anyway.
>>741452446Didn't they blame scammers too when they got rid of regional pricing and increased everything to 80 bucksJews gonna jew
>>741458519Always rising superpower but never is.
>>741452446I hate how normal people ALWAYS get the short end of the stick because of stupid or bad people (to describe them plainly). I'm fucking tired of it, there is no future where normalcy is "normal", it's always tard wrangling and kowtowing to criminals.
>>741457342paper money being valueless is not the same as a global surveillance network run by evil corporations that links everything you do, everywhere you go, every keypress and mouse movement and every subtle unconscious movement picked up by ai surveillance cameras to a government dossier on every single citizen that can be used at any time to lock your bank account and make your life a living hell if you are deemed a crime risk or an undesirable.
>>741458813total boomer death + total jeet death = problem solved
>>741461224If you can get YouTube celebrities to talk about it
>>741453572>>741453895>>741453969>>741455378yeah but if the government just decided your money was worthlesss then it wouldn't matter if it was paper or digitalif the USD was suddenly the money of a communist nation that hates money, it would be more worthless than the digital money that is likely in a bank not owned by the same government, even if the government blocks access>inb4 gold/silveryou'd get raped and gaped by the government when you try to leave the country with that for... whatever you plan to do>inb4 stockssame issue as the start>inb4 cryptounless you have actual connections, your crypto will be worthless if the government's literal goal is for you to not have money
>>741460361>N-no it's not my fault I fell for an obvious scam Papa gaben please save meListen champ, I'm with you on saying scammers suck cock, but Indian law enforcement doesn't do shit to stop them so don't punish the non gullible retards because some idiots don't know better
>>741464026Governments doesn't have power over cryptocurrencies.
>>741464187yeah but they have power over your internet connection dumbass
>>741452446>We've responded to gift card scams over the years by taking a number of actions to protect customers, including: a bunch of shit that doesn't help instead of rangebanning the entirety of india and watching scamming plummet off mount everest
>>741464385Suicidal empathy has always been mankind's undoing
>>741460115I don't do crime. Other people do, and I can't stop them from doing crime. The only thing I can do is crimeproof things so that they can't succeed. If I don't even attempt to crimeproof things, they will all get away with their crimes. Do you understand?None of that is relevant here however because Steam is not actually doing this to prevent scams.
>>741460856the secret to getting inheritance from your boomer parents is to scam them out of it.
>>741452726nothing happens on the epic games store
>>741461102I like that epic takes less than half the cut that steam does, but the problem is you only get 5% of the audience on epic as you do on steam, so it doesn't make sense to lose 95% of your potential audience just to take home a ~15% higher cut of sales.
>>741452446>because of scammersthat's always the excuse, yes.
>>741462228the solution is to make all crime punishable with excessively long sentences or death penalties, and to enforce those penalties swiftly, harshly, and publicly.
>>741464827>t. law industry
They sell physical gift cards? I've looked at multiple stores and never seen one
>>741464903we won't need a law industry once we're executing criminals for petty theft, because there won't be any more petty theft.
>>741464931they sell them at the local dollar store in my small rural town. i'm sure they sell them everywhere else too.
>>741465126This isn't true, btw. Scaling punishment like this doesn't reduce the necessity of crimes like stealing when you're destitute.Also, you're overrating the intelligence of criminals by trusting them to consider long-term consequences when they do things.
think I will buy a $10 card the next time I see one just as a funny keepsake
>>741455695kys
>>741465264If we kill all the "destitute" people when they commit crimes, there won't be any criminal destitutes left, thus they won't be around to commit crimes. >you're overrating the intelligence of criminals by trusting them to consider long-term consequences I don't care about whether or not they understand the consequences. I just want them dead.
>>741465981>If we kill all the "destitute" people when they commit crimes, there won't be any criminal destitutes left, thus they won't be around to commit crimes.And on the plus side, once they've been exterminated there will be more resources for the remaining thus lowering the overall likelihood of destitution and subsequent "criminal destitutes"
>>741465264>you're overrating the intelligence of criminals by trusting them to consider long-term consequences when they do things.Most of them are chronic repeat offenders, so killing them will still lead to an enormous plummet in crime rates.
>>741452446I'm tired of scammers
>>741452446No, that's just their excuse to, as usual, gaslit their cultist fanboys since Valve is the #1 world leader in corporate bullshitting. They're discontinuing them because they're being sued for kids gambling using funds they get with Steam gift cards which don't require you to be 18+ to purchase.
>>741465981So long as you also put all the wealthy criminals and pedos against the wall alongside them.
>is extremely arrogant>is desperate to insist that everyone doesn't hate themWhy are jeets like this?
Is it true that you can just buy anonymous single-use prepaid Mastercard gift cards and use them similarly to regular gift cards? If so, that seems like a decent replacement, unless I'm missing something.
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>>741466710most of the world doesnt have thosebut ive heard they work
>>741459128>roof cleanedWtf the roof cleans itself lmao
>>741452446Digital gift cards are a better alternative anyway. They go directly to the recepients account and they don't have to punch in a giant code.
>>741461478Let me guess you also have an Alexa in your house and you think privacy is for weirdos You are cattle
>>74146696198% of steam users dont gift money to other steam users.everyone that got steam cards for birthdays and xmas are now gone, steam is retarded
>>741466105wow, didn't think you'd immediately turn to antisemitism like that.
>>741452446billions of indians will starve to deathgaben is so fuckin based
>>741454582>like they just lack the ability to care if there's a victimoh boy, you should look up "izzat"
>>741466928old roof moss grows on it
>>741453082Take the redpill tourist bro, it's the Jews, it's always the jewshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mII9NZ8MMVM
>>741466928he probably meant gutters, but every boomer fell for the "leaf guard" gutter ads anyway so they don't need those cleaned.
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