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As such, this issue will never be "fixed" and those poor countries will be effectively cut off forever from the rest of the international community in terms of digital card gifting. There is no fix to this because they are likely waiting for those currencies to grow back to previous levels(eg pre-pandemic) which is essentially impossible or will take a very long time(think decades). It's obvious this "issue" is one they created themselves but they pretend as if they do not know what is going on. Steam is being disingenuous in this regard. Even if we were to end up in a situation where digital gift cards are only able to be sent to the US and EU while the rest of the world is getting an "error", Steam would still give the same awkward "we don't know what's going on" line.yeah right, biggest platform being clueless as to why their own system is unable to work for half the globe? I bet the same "error" will mysteriously happen again for the next currency that faces devaluation. So its pretty telling that both those regions can no longer be gifted with digital gift cards and give the same generic error message while Steam Support just says " we dont know". Same happened to Turkey over the last few months with apparently many region hoppers switching to that store after Argentina got too difficult.

To give some perspective, a new AAA game may cost as little as 600-1000 peso in Argentina,Īt the same time a 50 Dollar digital gift card converted into about 5500+ peso with the weak currency.

Same " we dont know why" answer from Steam Support.īoth countries who suffer from very high currency degradation at the moment which attracts a lot of users to create regional accounts there via VPN to shop very cheap for games.įirst Steam changed the region switch rules so you need a payment method from that country to create a account there or charge your wallet.īut existing accounts still could be funded from outside those regions via Steam Digital Gift cards. Since July you could not send Steam Digital Gift Cards to someone in Argentina except if you yourself were from Argentina and bought with a external payment method registered in Argentina.

Originally posted by ReBoot:New restrictions? Got some detail on that?