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Todaysteam is announcing a new payment integration with software and gaming giant Valve which will bring bitcoin payments to Steam gamers worldwide.

https://blog.bitpay.com/load-your-steam-wallet-using-bitcoin/

This announcement is big, this will boost a lot the Bitcoin community and also the price will go up!

WOW! I just checked my Steam and it is true. You can buy games on Steam with bitcoins!
This announcement is a milestone in bitcoin history and it will boost price so hard! Time to buy guys!

The sad part is that if you buy CS:GO keys (1.9-2$) or skins from BitSkins and resell them on the steam community market, you get funds for 10-20% off.
Maybe if steam introduced this earlier, people wouldn't have begun doing this, but now that this way exists.... I doubt I'm going to directly buy steam funds with BTC.

obviusly, it'll make buying steam stuff more easier than exchanging to exchanger, less time to spent,lesst money to spent,i really curious how's bitcoin price after this announcement widely published

i wonder why this kind of thread placed on services section, doesn't it better being placed on bitcoin discussion? or even service discussion

i think the effect on price will be noticeable slowly, but it is going to be a great effect mostly because it is a reputable and big company like valve that is accepting bitcoin not a small deal. and it will expose bitcoin to millions of users worldwide.

But do people still buying games through steam though ?
There are already alternatives where you can buy steam games cheaper than the steam itself
Let's say G2A, GreenManGaming, HumbleBundle

And three of those companies already accepted bitcoin even before steam did, Steam is a little bit late to the party here :P
Though, I do like the fact we can fund our wallet with it, I can buy CS:GO skin cheaper rather than buying wallet from other websites

Steam is still the number one place for people to buy games. Some people are not using other retailers and thought of it as grey area which is not 100% legal.
Plus Steam Sales are legendary - and during that time you want usually buy everything you ever wanted.

And AFAIK you can't buy games for bitcoin in Humble Store - only Humble Bundle - and sometimes even that option is blocked because certain publishers don't want bitcoin payments.

First transaction ever in Steam (video)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1451815.0

Since this Week! Payments with Bitcoin are possible to purchase any Steam Game u want  ::)  :o  8)
Isnt thios like  :o - Everything come to an good end  :D

I saw the video but not many people have seen it i suppose it would get about more than 40,000 views or even go on the front page of youtube
and i am wrong it has not. :-[

I am just wondering why it took this long to get this enabled on their gaming interface as a method to pay for their products? Problems with getting it to work properly perhaps?

I'd rather buy games directly with my bitcoins rather than to fill my wallet with bitcoin first and buy games with it.

The price of bitcoin is so volatile and i think it will continue to rise, so i'd rather hodl my btc.

Btw, i've bought 3 games with bitcoin, the transaction was very fast (0 confirmation) so don't be bothered by long confirmation time.

This is exactly the kind of news I was hoping to hear, more places you can spend your bitcoins means the more people will buy it and it will ultimately affect the price or at-least keep it stable. As more and more businesses who conduct their business online start to do this, we can accept an increase in bitcoin adoption.

??? Not sure what you mean.

Its been quite stable for some time, with minor ups and downs which is accepted.

i mean rather than top-up my steam wallet with my bitcoin first i'd rather buy games directly with my bitcoins.

You can and Bitcoin has been an option since BTC was at around $415, at least that's what the video shows. This past week and most of last BTC has been over $440. Also Steam accepts Bitcoin for what seems to be all purchases on the store, including hardware.

Well, this just proves that more and more merchants on the internet and on the streets are getting to know and accepting bitcoins. Steam is a very popular gaming platform, and I'm sure that more gamers will be able to take a look at BTC as well.

Hopefully this can result in a positive influence on bitcoin's future.

Yes, there are no limits to bitcoin purchases. You can purchase everything Steam offers directly - and even if some items, or in game transaction would not accept bitcoin payments directly.
After all there is option to add funds to your Steam wallet via BTC payment and then buy anything you want.

This is awesome news ;D