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Probably for the best. I spoke to a cashier at a local game store once, she was explaining how terrible it was to see so many people coming in who were obviously being scammed but wouldn’t listen to the advice from the cashier. They preferred it when they didn’t have any to sell.
Damn! How am i going to pay off the FBI for my pirated anime now?
But isn’t it literally less effort for someone to buy a digital gift card and hand over the card details to a scammer? Or am I missing something?
Digital makes it much easier for steam to track. They can more easily identify steam accounts and emails that are part of scam networks. They have options like not allowing sales to be delivered to scammer@scam.com, or reverting transactions they believe are scams within 24 hours.
I think you need to be signed on steam to buy them online? That would make it much easier to track and stop scammers
I just saw a video where it was mentioned that you can also buy the digital gift cards with a guest-checkout.
yeah you can do it now, at least an e-mail is needed, not sure about the rest of the flow
So now there’s no way to buy Steam credit without a card?
It’s cool trying to stop scammers, but I feel like this move could hurt privacy.
There are digital payment methods that don’t require a card.
I remember when I was a child there was “paysafe”. Where you paid to a physical machine and get a code to spend online. I imagine it still exists.
