A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
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.
The weird thing about Steam Wallet is that it's pointless.
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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?
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.
" 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.
" 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. "
I would say he meant in its current form is pointless, Obviously it has some point he is just saying that it is not yet apparent and then goes on to speculate.
" 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. "
very true...I'm not the best money manager but I alway have points loaded up on my xbox in case something surpassing comes out or i feel the need to by a new movie, i would like to do the same thing with steam. Although come to think of it steam has large game for like 30 and up and i probably won't have that much in my wallet, so i think i just talked myself out of using this feature. But really the ultimate solution is get a job....
" 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. "
Or the other way. Using your credit card and having it fail, with some cryptic error. Only to call your credit card company and find out that they denied it, because it raised flags over fraud concerns. So you spend ten minutes on the phone with them, verifying all sorts of data just so they can authorize your card with that vendor again, so you can go back to Steam and go through the transaction again . . . and then have the whole thing happen again the next week when you buy more Steam games.
I don't know why, but this happens with Steam more than ANY other place. Despite the fact that their analytical software should recognize the pattern of my purchases and see that I've spent about $1,500 on Steam in the last eighteen months.
@TotalEklypse said:
" @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've spent far too much time trying to figure out if this was a serious statement or not.
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.
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! "
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 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.
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