Apologies for YouTuber link - as some of the sources cited are in Japanese, it’s harder to get to a direct English source. The video description includes links to the Yahoo.jp article.
Apologies for YouTuber link - as some of the sources cited are in Japanese, it’s harder to get to a direct English source. The video description includes links to the Yahoo.jp article.
Payment processors setting up an economy where they control what you can and can’t pay for, so funny, good joke
time to move back to cash
You’re going to start mailing cash to Valve with a little note listing your Steam account and what games you want?
For starters, you can buy a steam gift card with cash. Then buy whatever you like with the card.
But i actually meant it more broadly, you can also use cash for other transactions where you are physically present.
I dislike how much power visa and mastercard have gotten, and cash is probably the best alternative for offline private transactions.
Any gift card still needs to be processed by a processor, who could get all up in arms just like MasterCard and Visa.
I mentioned digital transactions because that’s what has been restricted in essentially all cases. They don’t seem to care if you buy porn in person, they just don’t want you buying porn online.
Works for something like PSN. I see cards for sale in local shops. They can presumably be used to claim some funny money in the service that you can pay with.
Steam could probably do the same, but would suck for a smaller operation.
There used to be some cash to BTC machines that would work with any service.
Steam literally already does sell those.
A gift card isn’t cash, legally or literally. Gift cards also require processors. So this could happen again with gift cards, just with a different set of processing companies.
So what’s your answer? Cheques, money orders, cash in the mail? Or maybe MasterCard, Visa, and their ilk shouldn’t legally be allowed to limit legal purchases that haven’t been flagged as fraud.