Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'

• lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Valve could extend a limited credit for the first two hours of play time. If after downloading and playing for two hours there’s still no confirmation from the bank, they’d then block your access to the game.

  source

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s actually a pretty realistic option given the 2 hour refund window.

    Maybe allow it only after 1 successful deposit, and revoke it after 1 failure for a long period and X successful payments.

    source
• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is to top up your account, not make a purchase.

  source

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And that’s back to my point of people not wanting to leave money places in case they want to buy a game in the future.

    source

    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Instead of leaving it in your bank account just in case?

      source

      • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Money in my bank account I can spend on just about anything. If I realise “shit, I’m out of toilet paper”, I can go to the grocery store and pay by EC, with the money in my bank account. The money that I keep in there, just in case there’s something I want or need to spend money on literally anywhere.

        Besides, my bank is subject to my local jurisdiction and my own country’s laws and regulations. If my money is with some US company, I can’t be sure whether they’ll suddenly go “sorry, pal, your money has been confiscated on some bullshit pretense you have no way of actually fighting back against”.

        source