Paypal terminating All Steam payments In currencies other than EUR, CAD, GBP, JPY, AUD, USD

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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
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Never felt the need to use PayPal for Steam, so doesn't affect me.

Though I do wonder what is driving all this action from payment providers lately.
 
Larxia said:
CDkeys recently stopped working in France, although you can still access it with some DNS changes, for now.
It's the key site I use the most so that's very frustrating.

Lot of weird stuff happening lately.
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I use allkeyshop if you want to try.

Regarding the news... wtf. Sounds almost is if PayPal was also caught off-guard. Maybe something shady happened and the acquiring bank withdraw.
Guess it will be fixed in due time
 
digital_ghost said:
They always sold out of gift cards in various stores. Or you pay much more for less amount.
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They never have them in my local shops either.
It's their best work around for the time being.

That or they create their own payment processor. I've known other people who have attmepted to do it but was a major pain in the ass to do.
However Valve certainly have the capital to do it.
 
Larxia said:
Lot of weird stuff happening lately.
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My guess is there's a lot of shenanigans happening behind the scenes for these sites.

I don't think those payment processors are just suddenly paying attention at once for zero valid reason, there must be a v. big compliance risk happening here.
 
Yeah they won't take my TOYOTATHON cash either. I've got $2000 of them in small bills. Why did Gaben start oppressing us? And before anyone say "TOYOTATHON cash isn't real!", I would ask them to read the OP.
 
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"In early July 2025, PayPal notified Valve that their acquiring bank for payment transactions in certain currencies was immediately terminating the processing of any transactions related to Steam"

It doesn't say why.

Speculation:

The Payment Processor controversy was wider in scope than we realized. Some gave Valve a chance to correct by asking them to remove games. Paypal's acquiring bank did not. Instead they are banning Valve completely with no second chance. The consequences of this are several currencies that no longer have a way to be processed thru paypal for Valve.

1. I told you paypal was worse than the other processors. The most woke, the most political, the most social engineering
2. I bet the people who came on here defending the censorship aren't feeling great about this
3. In a world with crypto, this cannot stand. This is the slippery slope that will ruin entertainment worldwide and be the defacto ratings board for all content.
4. Everyone has a right to privacy. It is no one's business what we buy with the money we earn from working. As long as the product is legal these people should have no say. This is a way for companies to impose their morals on us and prevent us from buying legal products. This is a defacto ban on legal products imposed by a non-government entity. They will push this as far as they can eventually, until content that doesn't match their ideology exactly cannot be purchased unless a government or a competitor stops them. This is a way of eliminating commerce for those that do not agree with you. The term for this is debanking. Non-woke are being debanked.

Google AI: Debanking, in the context of finance, refers to the practice of financial institutions (like banks) terminating or refusing to provide services to individuals or businesses. This can involve closing existing accounts, denying new account applications, or restricting access to loans and other financial products. While banks have broad discretion in managing client relationships, the term "debanking" often implies a potentially problematic or controversial reason for the termination, such as political views, religious beliefs, or industry affiliation.

These people can't help themselves.

These people are insane.
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Anyway, there's one important thing people need to be aware of: Never let PayPal do the currency conversion, choose to let your issuer do it.
 
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Zacfoldor said:
"In early July 2025, PayPal notified Valve that their acquiring bank for payment transactions in certain currencies was immediately terminating the processing of any transactions related to Steam"

It doesn't say why.

Speculation:

The Payment Processor controversy was wider in scope than we realized. Some gave Valve a chance to correct by asking them to remove games. Paypal's acquiring bank did not. Instead they are banning Valve completely with no second chance. The consequences of this are several currencies that no longer have a way to be processed thru paypal for Valve.

1. I told you paypal was worse than the other processors. The most woke, the most political, the most social engineering
2. I bet the people who came on here defending the censorship aren't feeling great about this
3. In a world with crypto, this cannot stand. This is the slippery slope that will ruin entertainment worldwide and be the defacto ratings board for all content.
4. Everyone has a right to privacy. It is no one's business what we buy with the money we earn from working. As long as the product is legal these people should have no say. This is a way for companies to impose their morals on us and prevent us from buying legal products. This is a defacto ban on legal products imposed by a non-government entity. They will push this as far as they can eventually, until content that doesn't match their ideology exactly cannot be purchased unless a government or a competitor stops them. This is a way of eliminating commerce for those that do not agree with you. The term for this is debanking. Non-woke are being debanked.

Google AI: Debanking, in the context of finance, refers to the practice of financial institutions (like banks) terminating or refusing to provide services to individuals or businesses. This can involve closing existing accounts, denying new account applications, or restricting access to loans and other financial products. While banks have broad discretion in managing client relationships, the term "debanking" often implies a potentially problematic or controversial reason for the termination, such as political views, religious beliefs, or industry affiliation.

These people can't help themselves.

These people are insane.
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Last year US Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) sent Valve a threating letter pushing them to censor their forums.

www.gamedeveloper.com

Senator questions Valve's commitment to wiping out 'disturbing and violent' extremism on Steam

'It appears that Valve has chosen to continue a 'hands off'-type approach to content moderation.'
www.gamedeveloper.com www.gamedeveloper.com

I wonder if this is the fallout.
 
My local police station has a machine that can top up Steam wallet.

Why the fuck is it inside the police station? I have no clue. Only went there for passport renewal. And it is the only machine of that kind in the city.
 
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