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"Scammers have adapted": Valve confirms that physical Steam Gift Cards are dead. Once the current stocks are sold through, they're done. (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] 16 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I'm with you but I also can see them useful to a degree. Children often want to get games from steam/nintendo store/EGS vbucks/etc and parents really do not want to enter their credit/debit card data everywhere under the anxiety of child abusing that card. Gift cards solve this problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Couldn't they just implement a credit system? Parent does a one time purchase for Steam bucks and then they use that until they run out.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    They do have such a system. If you click your username on the top of your desktop client (I'm on the Linux client but believe the windows one also works like this), there should be an item "View my wallet", this will take you to a page where you can add money to it.

    Or if it only shows up for me because I have a balance (sold some steam cards), go to Steam -> Settings and there should be an "Add funds" button right below your profile pic in the Account tab.

    They only seem to support specific values (mine does 5, 10, 25, 50, 100). Oh and there's a link to redeem gift card codes; you might already use this page to get there if you use gift cards.

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