Can you please explain what is wrong with an idea of paying with a direct, fast, cheap payment option that half of the world already uses on a daily basis?
Handling payments like this puts the responsibility of dealing with fraud at Valve’s level and significantly increase their workload, instead of being the payment processor’s responsibility.
I don’t blame Valve not wanting to deal with this.
I’m not gonna tell you this is impossible to set up for a worldwide online company because unlike the OP I have no problem acknowledging that I don’t know enough about something to understand how hard it is.
I will tell you that it’s absurd to propose that by working with the three biggest payment processors in the world, covering a huge share of all online payments, Steam has somehow been negligent.
That doesn’t follow even a little bit. It’s an absolute non-sequitur. It’s someone trying very hard to be mad at somebody they know for a thing they don’t fully understand.
Hey, I’m all for creating a public online payment processor. An international one, even.
I’m not even pulling any punches. There are no reasons to leave this in private hands.
But this reeks of people being mad at the thing they know and feel have some influence with instead of with the actual problem, and it’s a bummer because it encapsulates Internet outrage and why it’s so often ineffectual.
Can you please explain what is wrong with an idea of paying with a direct, fast, cheap payment option that half of the world already uses on a daily basis?
Handling payments like this puts the responsibility of dealing with fraud at Valve’s level and significantly increase their workload, instead of being the payment processor’s responsibility.
I don’t blame Valve not wanting to deal with this.
Banks have their own fraud prevention methods that are more mature than whatever is offered by payment processors.
I’m not gonna tell you this is impossible to set up for a worldwide online company because unlike the OP I have no problem acknowledging that I don’t know enough about something to understand how hard it is.
I will tell you that it’s absurd to propose that by working with the three biggest payment processors in the world, covering a huge share of all online payments, Steam has somehow been negligent.
That doesn’t follow even a little bit. It’s an absolute non-sequitur. It’s someone trying very hard to be mad at somebody they know for a thing they don’t fully understand.
Feels like we’re a few moments away from someone unironically suggesting Steam start allowing people to just mail them cash.
Hey, I’m all for creating a public online payment processor. An international one, even.
I’m not even pulling any punches. There are no reasons to leave this in private hands.
But this reeks of people being mad at the thing they know and feel have some influence with instead of with the actual problem, and it’s a bummer because it encapsulates Internet outrage and why it’s so often ineffectual.
Well that’s actually not such a crazy idea. Proton accepts cash via mail as well, so apparently it’s doable.
I really have no idea what this commenter is so appalled by. Direct bank payments are the norm in lots of places already anyways.