Pre-Load Cash Into Your Steam Account With The Steam Wallet

As someone who is broke most of the time(poor college student), this is cool. Just load up some money while i have it so i'm not shit out of luck later. 

seems appropriate

The weird thing about Steam Wallet is that it's pointless.

 It's not hard to reason out why the Steam Wallet might exist. Younger users without access to credit or bank cards need a way to purchase content, and if stores were to offer Steam Wallet cards with these increments in the future? Well, that'd take care of the problem, wouldn't it?

" As someone who is broke most of the time(poor college student), this is cool. Just load up some money while i have it so i'm not shit out of luck later.  "

cool, ill always have some money  when they make their crazy deals

Steam Gift Card would be perfect for a teen like me :P

Surprise Deployed!!

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Bi-polar much?  Brad Nicholson is bar none the worst addition to the GB staff in its history.  I swear, every one of his stories is a gibbering stream of nonsense.  He couldn't write a coherent news story to save his life. "

Let's not beat around the bush: this is for kids. That's the only real reason I could think of why this feature exists.

" @GoodKn1ght said:

" As someone who is broke most of the time(poor college student), this is cool. Just load up some money while i have it so i'm not shit out of luck later.  "

That's not a very good way to be managing your money. You're better off just leaving it in your bank account and budgeting it towards future game purchases than allowing steam to make money on your money.  Still this feature doesn't really bug me as long as they continue to allow you to pay the exact cost of a game. "

You kids can have your Steam wallet. I'll stick to the old way of using my credit card and then being surprised my credit card bill is really high.

There's no point in this other than to gift people things or to set a budget for your children.

I don't enjoy so much speculation in some of these articles.

This would make my life so much easier 

" You kids can have your Steam wallet. I'll stick to the old way of using my credit card and then being surprised my credit card bill is really high. "

" @SMTDante89 said:

" As someone who has a debit card that Steam refuses to accept (I've yet to figure out why) the idea of pre-paid cards is a Godsend  

 just use paypal. "

i hope they have store cards soon.... it will make my life a LOT easier!

Smart move. Now they can load up retailers with cardboard cards. 

I still don't really get the concept.

Interesting. If they start selling pre-paid cards, I could finally bother setting up a US account. I have been reluctant do so in the past due to the potential safety-risk with routing through a proxy. With pre-paid cards I wouldn't need to send my credit card info through the proxy.

Or, you know, they could stop the €1=1$ nonsense.

sweet 
 
now we just need steam gift cards so people will have me something to get for christmas!

Awesome. Steam dominates :D!

YES! PRE-PAID CARDS! MY FUCKING DREAM COME FUCKING TRUE!

Beta stage?  Does that mean that your money can "accidentally" be lost?  Whoops!  Losing that $100 was a bug!  Not representative of the final product!  Please come again!

Well if they were to make pre-paid cards then how will it be handled for people like me living in Australia? As of right now the currency for games on Steam are still in US dollars so unless they release an update that localizes prices for whatever country your in then I can only see these pre-paid cards being released in the US. 

" Beta stage?  Does that mean that your money can "accidentally" be lost?  Whoops!  Losing that $100 was a bug!  Not representative of the final product!  Please come again! "

Makes sense if you can gift dollar amounts rather than specific games.

So they give us more options to give them money, but I'm still waiting on HL2: Ep3. 

This sounds like something that will make me go bankrupt.

I'm just surprised this didn't happen sooner.

Fuck yes! I can trade in console games and buy Steam cards (when they come out)!

Here in Germany Steam crap costs twice as much, as the copy from amazon... It's already insulting. I won't give them a single cent. ^_^

" I'm just surprised this didn't happen sooner. "

Damn those "pre-piad" cards!

Yo dawg I heard you like to pre-load your cash, so we put a pre-load cash function in your pre-load cache manager so you can pre-load your cash while you pre-load your cache.

This would be good for younger users but then you need to have child and parent accounts and parental controls. Feels like Steam is going mass market.

This makes some things easier. The  range of present options to our little gamers is getting bigger. I'm going to give my cousin a paysafecard to use with Steam. (Just like an adult) 
I like both services of paysafe and steam.