Bitcoin Forum

What do you think of Valve accepting Bitcoin as a payment on Steam? The only scenario I could think of is that it might attaract more people to use Bitcoin. But then again if you are a regular gamer and don't know what Bitcoin is, why switch over to an unknown currency? As of getting more sales, i'm not too sure if they would really get more sales with implementing Bitcoin as a payment processor, because people on Bitcointalk and other forums are selling Steam keys for Bitcoin, I also believe that there are some markets that allow you to pay with Bitcoin for Steam keys?

It would be cool to see, and it might even trigger more companies to implement Bitcoin as a payment processor?
Source: http://steamfreecodes.com/bitcoin-payments-on-steam/

it should help bitcoin grow among gamers, but i'm convinced that many gamers already know about bitcoin, and if they really care about it they should have already used it through other way(kinguin and g2a)

aside from this buying on other vendors like the one mentioned is cheaper, so i doubt i would use it, unless i'm forced because of the difficult to find some title...

I'm not sure how it's going to attract more people about it unless they really make the announcement in the first page or something , because if they simply add the icon on with the other payment methods , no body is going to check it out just because he saw the icon.
and I personally won't use it myself beacuse Steam sells for higher prices if we compare it to g2a.com for example , and yes It may trigger more companies to implent Bitcoin as a payment processor , definitely .

Rumor has it that they will accept BTC really soon... I highly doubt it, but let's see :) I think it would be an amazing addition. I'd definitely be spending more on Steam with Bitcoin.

Gamers usually have powerful GPUs and CPUs capable of mining Bitcoins and now altcoins and are computer-literate so they would know what Bitcoin is and where to use it most of the time and in that regard I think Valve are making the right decision to add it to the payment options on Steam.

Yes, i'm sure more people will use bitcoin because valve. Especially like buying steam wallet or expensive item game that can buy with bitcoin. Steaam accepting bitcoin is really next level.

Yeah i think bitcoin will be popular if they accept bitcoin as payment if it will happen..
It will more popular if they use bitcoin as payment for contest or rewards. So that they can easily understand what is bitcoin..

It will be next level of bitcoins for any payment through steam, if it happens.

I really hope other big companies will follow Valve so we can have a wider bitcoin adoption :)

If Valve accepts bitcoin payments, it will help to more people know and talk about bitcoin, gamers are a big community and more open to new technologies than normal people. Also it would give bitcoin users more places to spend their bitcoins.

Although you had a point, I disagree in regards with them not getting more sales since, the time they accept BTCitcoin (indirectly or better directly) would be the time, they open their doors to the whole new world of new users too. I travel on few countries in a year and in the country I'm staying at the moment, there's no way to fund my steam account (something I used to do when I'm in abroad) so there will be definitely an increase on sales.

I would argue that the bitcoin logo on their payment pages is one of the best advertisement bitcoin can get at the moment. Just by making gamers aware of the fact that bitcoin is around has huge potential.

Gamers spend thousands of euros on games, hardware and other retaled stuff. They are not afraid to spend money and if they get interested in bitcoin this could lead to some serious buying among that community.

Let alone the mouth to mouth advertisement if they start talking about it in their team chats etc.

Being a pro Gamer I think it would definitely impress me to use a new currency for my payment at Steam.People just are too lazy to come out of their comfort zones to try something new.The day I heard this news I started to believe that bitcoin is going to make a huge impact on the gaming community as well.As far as the users who are used to other methods of payments are concerned,they will have no other option but to follow the trend. Apparently,when Valve announced the news,the response of the community was quite positive and everyone seems to embrace the change.

For me would make things, I could spend the Bitcoins I earn more easily, with no need to sell them

At this point, most people already know about Bitcoin or have at least heard of it. But the question is, will it be used? If they don't get a proper introduction to Bitcoin, it might just be ignored. 

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Im sorry mate but you a bit wrong. As of today most people do NOT know about bitcoin.
I would say 2% of earths population is aware of BTC in some minor form maybe 4%.
Most people have no idea what blockchain is, how to make wallet, hell they dont know what faucets are etc.
Knowlege boost is a must. Go Valve.

I think more than 4% of the population is aware of Bitcoin. Now if they want to use it for payments is a whole different story. For example I do know what gold and stocks are. Do I want to buy and use them? No I don't. There is no guarantee that Bitcoin will be used more if Valve add it to the Steam store. But it will spread more awareness within the gaming community.

I think is a good idea, it makes gamer easier to buy something

maybe in the steam page can add little article about bitcoin, so bitcoin can become more popular

This should be great, steam is a global gaming community, the use of bitcoin to facilitate unified payment  ;)

It will be a good thing if they decided to use BTC for their trading card market. Currently with most new games you get a few trading cards that you can sell for a few pennies. If this switched to bitcoin it would be good because people could more easily buy and sell micro amounts.

I am still surprised Bitcoin is not more popular among gamers population. Maybe if Steam really adopt Bitcoin as payment method that could change a bit.

I dont know how many of those gamers will actually use BTCs like payment method but this is very good news!
This is adaptation and only can bring more positive attention to BTC i'm sure!
Probably this will become major news in PC gamer news papers..

Steam accepting Bitcoin as the payment, this is what I always wanted to happen. I believe, it will increase the number of game purchases every day. Because buying things with Bitcoin is very easy, compared with any other methods. This will also support the purchase of the original game, because buying a game just got easier. People won't think twice to buy a game on Steam with Bitcoin

some gamers in my country very pleaseure to accept bitcoin and glad to hear that steam accept bitcoin as payment,i think this is will be effective,not only for sales,but bitcoin will more popular on gamer community,gamer will more easy to pay steam with bitcoin.

I think that being able to pay steam services with bitcoin is great.
I'm sure going to use it to buy some games

That will be so nice. For both sites. I think steam will becoming more popular if you can pay with Bitcoin.
And Bitcoin will be more popular because you can use it on steam, so that will be really good if that is going to happen.

Well for one thing, most kids younger than 18 are not allowed to use credit cards without adults { I say most } So Bitcoin could actually fulfil a need to attract more kids

into the scene, when adults transfer some bitcoins to their kids accounts and they can spend them, without the risk of them spending all the credit on their parents

credit cards or getting the info hacked. The option for adults to manage this risk, could be a advantage for Bitcoin.  ;D

that the reality,some gamers dont knot and not interesting with bitcoin,they too fool and oldschool,or they too focus for playing game,and dont care with other thing on internet.

i think it is awesome that valve decided to start accepting bitcoin as payment.

a lot of bitcoin users (including me) are playing games on steam which we pay for sometimes with many ways, and from now on we will abandon those ways and use bitcoin instead.

This was exactly what i meant, I think that most people know about Bitcoin as some sort of payment processor. I mean it's been on the news and gained lots of popularity in recent years. But the question is, would people actually use it more if it were implemented in steam?

The way I see it is that Valve want Bitcoin users to purchase directly from steam, instead of other markets like g2a and kinguin.

I think this would open a whole new door for the bitcoin community but also for steam because of the point that they will attract a lot of people because of this.
I also think they should do it because then they are stepping in as a big company into the bitcoin market, at that is a plus point for the whole bitcoin community and the economy of it and its also good for us all. Although there are already a couple that buy steam games in trade of bitcoins but it would be much better if steam would do this directly because they can make profit and we as the users of steam will be buy it directly from them and that makes it more secure and easier for us( no fees).

It would be another spike in Bitcoin popularity. And it would be awesome if they offered a small discount for Bitcoin payments.

It would be nice, if i could spend my Bitcoins there, even if it wouldnt mean more Bitcoin users  ;D

that would be a great place to spend my bitcoins. Due to low power of mining Im getting not much but enough to buy 1 or 2 big games on stram.

I think steam acceptin bitcoin payment will help bitcoin to be advertise and promoted.It may also help all gamers,cause most gamers is just in the house and onlime surfing.It will be another way to bitcoin to be more popular,door of opportunity to bitcoin to be succesful one of our daily money.Steam helps bitcoin and users on how they can use bitcoin on their life

I think now everything is different dude. steam already accepted a payment method with bitcoin. and I think gamers will begin to see bitcoin and find out what is bitcoin? steam still some time ago accept bitcoin. so I think they  more timeto bitcoin could be the payment method most widely used in steam