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Steam will no longer offer physical gift cards (pawb.social)
submitted 5 days ago by PonyOfWar@pawb.social to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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Kinda sucks for me, as I've almost exclusively used gift cards for the last few years. I get a bonus tax-free credit card by my employer, which I can only use at retail stores. So those were a great way for me to use that card to buy games. It was also a good option for people who wanted to avoid payment providers like Visa/Mastercard etc. Oh well.

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[-] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

This is a huge blow to me. I'm not sure what to do now, because the Steam Gift cards was a major reason to use Steam for me.

[-] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 5 days ago

Technically pre-paid debit cards will serve the same purpose if you still want to use cash to buy a card to redeem steam cash with. You could also use something like PayPal if you don't want to expose your card directly.

I got steam gift cards as presents growing up, so I feel ya though.

this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2026
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