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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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[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

The fact that scamming people into buying fucking gift cards is a think just seems so odd to me.

[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 6 points 5 days ago

It's a great way to launder the money, as the gift cards aren't tied to a person. Credit card and bank transactions can easily be tracked/reversed and crypto is too complicated to scam old people with.

this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2026
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