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Just bought my 1st game from steam using bitcoin, what a great way to pay.  seamless and fast, far faster than using my card and more secure.  well done Steam for accepting it.  ;D

Well that's good for Steam player.
Anyway, I'm looking for googleplay also accept bitcoin as well so I purchase gems / coins more easily rather than I'm using CC.
Hope it googleplay can implement bitcoin purchase system at the future

it's really help gamers to purchase any games on their service, i bet that will be more gamers purchase the games using bitcoin than other payments, due to the it's simplicity, as we know that gamers are familiars with bitcoin, and it's such a good news for the community that finaly steam accept bitcoin officially

Oh congratulations mate on the purchase :D Do you mind if I ask which game did you buy on Steam? I bought Doom with Bitcoin on Steam because I am a big fan of the series and been enjoying it a lot these past few days. Valve did a great job introducing Bitcoin on Steam and they surely have a lot of Bitcoin customers buying games.

Congrats about that.

I wish that there will be a day when Amazon and eBay accept btc...

Won`t be very soon...

Well, I'd say it's an achievement for you to purchase your first game from Steam with bitcoins. I've already bought a few cheap games with bitcoins from Steam because I was worried it might have any issues at first but so far I haven't had any issues at all :)

It's great that Steam is now accepting bitcoin payments. I also have made my first purchase through them using bitcoin and it feels great! Steam is just the first of many ;)

don't think they'll accept bitcoin till they bust because of paypal,just see paypal have so many fraud purchases and they still keep it,silly indeed

I want to buy a game now on steam too using Bitcoin for the first time, but it's way too expensive, so I was considering buying a cdkey in some place like g2a, which is at almost half the price, but im too paranoid about the cdkeys that those guys are selling being stolen or something. I mean how can they sell a game for half the price? there must be something going on, and it's a new game.

they buy those games in the promotions like the summer, winter sales that steam has.
for example steam sells many games for half the price (or with a good discount at least) from time to time to encourage players to buy those games that nobody is buying any longer because of the high price, so these sites buy at that low price and sell with a little profit to us.

Congratulation man, you miss one point. I think you have also payed very little fee compared to payment via card. I have paid 10% fee today in withdraw from my visa card.  >:(

We need independent bitcoin atm card not related to visa nor to mastercard.

This thread would have been much better, if you added things like this :

~ I bought Hitman {The Title} with Bitcoin on Steam {with a photo as proof}
~ Then you could add some interesting comparisons eg. I would have paid say $10 fees with my CC, but I paid only $0.01 as miners fee.
~ The payment took eg. 5 minutes to complete
~ I used BitPay / Coinbase or whatever other service they accept. {I think at this stage, it is only Bitpay?}

That would have been a much better thread to start off with.  ??? Can you please give us a more detailed explanation of your experience? Thanks OP for sharing, now we know it's working.

yep, bitcoin payments are seamless and slick  8)

Congratulation,what game you bought?i still wait for good time to buy game on steam with bitcoin,still not interesting to buy any game since finished my Call of Duty,any recomended game for now?i love FPS game like call of duty or sniper.

But there are games that get released recently, so there is not a possibility that the games have been in steam summer or winter sales. For example the new Doom(2016) game is new released a couple of days ago, and it's available in g2a already for almost half the price... something weird is going on, I would not trust those sites, like the other poster said, they may be stolen.. otherwise where is the business for them?

Congrats and thanks for sharing and spreading the word.  Gaming is going to be a big part of increasing bitcoin adoption, Steam is a great start!

Congrats for your first buying steam game using bitcoin. I want ask you something, is there any rules or something when you using bitcoin for the payment ? Because i also want use bitcoin for it.

Hi. I've been itching to get a copy of H1Z1.  How's the experience? Smooth seamless with Bitpay? Are you paying any premium or charged certain % more than regular payment methods?

Want to get new The Internation 6 battle pass in dota 2 with bitcoin, thank you for your reply, now i will do it for sure. It will be my frist exerience buying in steam with bitcoin.

Good days are coming to those who're using bitcoins.

Proud to be a gamer and a bitcoin user. lol.

How about you share some relevant information about this? Stating that you've just bought a game does not really help as it provides no information to the people reading the thread.

They are as legit as the "shared" accounts and cheap gift cards that are being sold on this forum. ::)

I don't see why it would be any different as with the payments at other services that are involved with Bitpay.

I would not see the point of adding a premium to the prices, else there would be little reason to use Bitcoin.

If you're that paranoid, just go with the steam.

I know alot of gamers who paid for games at cheaper prices ended up not getting the game.

and there is a dude who offers giveaways on youtube and FB, he had the same issue with g2a and doesn't matter how many emails he send, he get the same shitty useless responses.

Don't be that guy, go for steam.

I have read complaints that some Steam keys bought from G2A are not working and it's a real hassle to contact customer support and fix the issues. I suggest buying directly from Steam with Bitcoins because the price may be a little higher but it's guaranteed that you will start playing right away with no problems. At least for me peace of mind is more important than saving a couple of bucks.

Xapo has a platform that allows you to purchase Steam/PC/XBox games and you can get via Bitcoins but had to pay 10 - 15% premium.

Steam the real deal has came! :)

I hope some company will come out that accept both credit card and bitcoin, then pay merchants using bitcoin on behalf of the users. The whole process should be very fast and secure.

what is this swarm of people using bitcoin on steam now, it has been about 1 or 2 months since they have started accepting bitcoin and more than 4 months ago the news about the possibility of it was released!

I also considered buying through them, until I saw the premium prices asked for those games and I turned it down. I do not know why services like this try to exploit people, because they should try to promote Bitcoin with lower prices and discounts, but they just do the opposite.

I will now buy through Steam and skip these dodgy alternatives.

It's a very healthy development that Steam has accepted Bitcoins. I recall last year, Microsoft accepted Bitcoins as well but no further news came out of it.

I suspect once the price of BTC stablises, there will be more formal adoption by corporations.

IIRC, did Dell accept Bitcoins once?

yeah,i'm wondering what game bought by OP. and of course i hope the next Googleplay will accept bitcoin,its will more and more amazing experience if we can purchase game from google play with our lovely currency.bitcoin!

OP, how did you pay exactly? I know you said using bitcoin, but did you have to load your Steam wallet first using bitcoin or did you pay for your game directly with bitcoin or what/how exactly?

Great to see Steam accepting Bitcoin! I hope they will continue to accept Bitcoin.

I will check it out and also try to buy a game or two with Bitcoin. I strongly urge every Bitcoiners to do so too. Even though we can get cheaper game with Bitcoin from stores like G2A and Key4Co.in, we should support Steam. If there is only a few Bitcoin transactions between Steam and Bitcoiners, Steam may consider to stop accepting Bitcoin.

Let's all buy a game or two with Bitcoin on official Steam. :).

Cool  ;D Steam now accepting bitcoin payments easy to transfer funds unlike paypal to steam funds

Can't wait to see Paypal fade away. Their fees are astronomical.

Well, they have some sort of security system, the so called "g2a shield" or something like that, that supposedly guarantees that it will work. Of course, I refuse to believe that something shady isn't going on when people is able to find keys for a triple A brand new tittle like the new Doom game, for half the price that it is on Steam...

does steam even accept paypal?

I think the article dated from a few weeks ago. So they sure took their time. However it's good to see some big company is accepting bitcoin as a payment option. If google and amazon would do the same, I wonder what the market cap would be like.

paypal to steam funds doesn't accept your card that link to your paypal even my american express not accepted you need to transfer cc funds to paypal before you can transfer funds to your steam. not like bitcoins to steam funds it instant  ;D

The combination between Bitcoin and Steam is working in a great way and is paying off. The fact that paying with Bitcoins is faster and easier can be the factor of attracting more people to both Bitcoin and Steam.

it would be impossible since bitcoin is decentralized not like a fiat which is centralized and have a bank,and bitcoin is not getting legalized yet in so many countries

But a card could work at a Bitcoin ATM couldn't it?  It would basically just be your wallet which you scan into an exchange/atm, which can spit out fiat.
I could also work through Bitpay I guess.

I think it all misses the point of Bitcoin a little though.  Why can't a shop just have a 2d barcode for me to scan and pay directly?  Why do I need a card?  Why do they need a bank account?

Yes, it's cool! Quickly and without any problems. In addition, it can be used by minors who do not have cards. As well as attract more users in emerging markets like - India, China and Brazil

This is exciting news. Thanks for sharing.

IMO it's too late for Steam to start accepting bitcoin. G2A has already established a reputation for a trustable alternative Steam market that's cheaper than the real thing, and accepts a wider range of payment options.

In China, bitcoin is quite famous but in India, people are not even aware of bitcoins. You will find very few people who have heard of bitcoin and bitcoin users are even lesser in number. Internet has not reached many of the places in India. It would be very difficult to attract users in India.

It is a great sign that steam is accepting BTC for payment. I like how simple bitcoin is to use, especially with a ledger HW wallet, secure and quick to use.
I do sometimes buy steam games.

No i cant be arsed, to busy playing my new game..... but feel free to give us all a run down on every aspect of your use of bitcoin, but dont expect me to read it, i can guess it will already bore me...... lol  ;D

I never used it but I already heard that its easy to do it with steam right now, the only downside is some games are too expensive and are here on the forum cheaper.
Due to this fact I still not used them, although its good for the publicity of the bitcoin.

Yes as mentioned in my previous post, there is online stores like Key4Co.in and G2A which accept Bitcoin and offer cheaper Steam games. However, we Bitcoiners should still use Bitcoin to purchase something on Steam from time to time (even if it is a 99 cents game). This will show Steam that there is still Bitcoin transactions going on. And hence they will not disable Bitcoin transaction feature. I am going to purchase some cheap indie game on Steam with Bitcoin sometime next week or the week after to show my support - even though the game might be cheaper on G2A.

Agreed  ;)  If we want people to use and accept bitcoin we bitcoiners need to spend it at them stores to show support.

Awesome stuff from the OP & Steam. I hope mlre people buy games there using bitcoin. We need more & more companies accepting bitcoin to prevail.

What's the price conversion like on Steam? Do they charge you more for the supposed privelidge of paying in bitcoin?

if i ever have time again to play games, maybe i would try to buy some on steam. i'm too busy that i don't dare going there now, so easy to purchase a game that i'm afraid i can't refuse to buy something i don't have time to play.

yeah cool and good news for the gamers that finding steam wallet codes using bitcoins, and they will not be banned because of steam wallet codes that buyed in hacked credit card.