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I would like to know how many people here have bought something on Steam using Bitcoin as the payment method.
It would also be good to know how much Bitcoin (or equivalent in $ or €) you've spent in total since Steam has started accepting Bitcoin.

Also important to note is that you don't count your purchases of Steam codes through external services, only orders made through Steam itself.

The primary reason I'm asking is that I would like to have some sort of view on the popularity of the Bitcoin payment method on Steam. I was pretty bummed when Fiverr removed Bitcoin payments and I'm hoping that Bitcoin payments on Steam are a bit more popular.

Not doing a poll, since I'm asking multiple questions and polls are easier to cheat.
Looking forward to hearing your responses!

My own response:

I've used Bitcoin about 3 or 4 times for a Steam purchase and the combined value of the orders was around 45 euros in total.
I still use Paypal some of the time, but if it's possible, I usually pay with Bitcoin.

I used bitcoin 1 time in steam to buy gift codes, spend 300$+.

when I was a gamer, back when I had time and was younger wanted steam to accept bitcoin so that I can pay with bitcoin. when they started accepting bitcoin I was no longer a gamer :) at least no as much as before so I never bought anything there apart from one time buying a Dota2 international compendium to have extra features while watching the international tournaments. it was about $10.

Still don't experiene yet to buy games on steam but depositing and use the credit for upgrade items in some games.. i already made.. buying games on team honestly are expensive.. unlike for other country but i think many people are already successful buying games in steam..
Since its easy right now to use bitcoin even teenangers can do it just to buy games..

Did you buy these on Steam itself or on an external website, since you said you bought giftcodes?

I have actually bought games on steam with bitcoin, it's a pretty pleasant experience and pretty much as simple as using a credit card though the only thing you have to wait on is for the confirmations.

Make sure to set the fee high if you want to get the game sometime within 20mins or so. The amount was around $30 or so.

Paypal isn't so popular in Serbia right now, but I've used bitcoin to buy Battlerite that's 20$.

That's good to know. I myself am thinking of buying some games on it, and in that way test the quality of the service, as I have never used steam before. First I have to check if there are good purchase options, of course, but the fact that this company is making available the possibility of buying using Bitcoin brings already an additional incentive for me to buy it through this platform.

I have bought games on Steam with bitcoins twice now. I had no problems.

Valve will be happy to know that I would not have bought them if I had to use some other method of payment.

Steam itself is a pretty good service, they've been around since forever and if you have your mind set on a particular game, than it's no problem to use their service.

I'm saying that because I would stay away from games that are still in alpha or beta stages, unless they have very good reviews already.
You can get refunds, but I'm not sure if you can get a refund in Bitcoin. If someone knows if it's possible, please share :)

Used it something like four or five times so far, maybe spent somewhere between $100 and $200 on games with it so far, I'd have to go back and check.

Overall it's a good system I'd say and there is very little I would like to change about it aside from maybe the time it takes to confirm a transaction and actually get the game, but I'm fairly patient.

I have never bought games there. But I would like to buy World of Warcraft on Blizzard site. I would glad to pay the game and playing time with bitcoins. Does anyone know is it already possible or is it even planned to come true?

I have bought a few games and a few DLC's troughSteam and the amount I spent in total is about 0.064 Bitcoins. Pretty much the only thing I use Bitcoin for is buying steam games, all my transactions are to Valve, only one was for buying games from some guy.

I bought the counter strike global offensive from steam through bitcoin itself and I don't try to use the other gateway or parties, all of the journeys is running for well. It looks like a lot of demand on the bitcoin method in steam payment. I think this will be so long.

Yeah I would also like to buy Starcraft 2 using Bitcoin, but as far as I know, it's not possible to buy Blizzard games with Bitcoin.
It might be a good time to send them some e-mails about that, maybe some community oriented effort? :)

Starcraft 2 is great but I think Starcraft 1 (broad wars) is still the best real time strategy game of all times.

As for buying games in steam, I bought a couple during the winter sale, I got Project Cars and Asseto Corsa to play with my Logitech racing wheel, pretty good games.

There are a lot of things that you can't do in starcraft 1, talking about general unit management, it's a real pain in the ass.
I like classic games like SC1, but imo, they've really improved it with SC2 :p You just have to stop living in the past (j/k)

I think its allowed now to buy steam games with bitcoin. I searched google and i see that they have partnered with bitpay which is a payment processor. Now you can buy steam games with bitcoin through it. Counter strike: Global Offensive is what i love to buy. I really love this game.

I've yet to buy any game on steam, be it with BTC or other.
But, this is only because the only game I used to like there was free to play.  ;D  So, I only had to use my BTC for in-game credits. (But that BTC had to go through a couple other payment processors, just to get converted to the appropriate one)

The only connection with BTC (this forum rather) and STEAM that I encountered was, occasionally there'd be some people giving away free keys (I think it was in the games and round). The one I got was for Dirt 3. Claimed it and all, but I've yet to play it though.

If BTC can now be used, then I'd probably try out the Left4Dead. It's a bit old, but good.

I bought Rocksmith on g2a and dlcs on steam with btc a few days ago.

I instantly regretted not holding on to it  ;D

I have CS from steam, last year I don`t remember when exactly I bought it for 23 mbtc,in that moment that was around 14 $ or something like that I`m not sure. I plan to buy few more games but I`m waiting price to drop and some nice discount of course.
Everything went smoothly and fast, great experience.

actually i am not yet buying any games with bitcoin because i am not playing games for now. but maybe later if i can found a good games in steam, i will buy that games using my bitcoin. but the games that i want to buy is need for speed, delta force, warcraft but i don't think that games is accepting bitcoin for the payment.

ive bought games from steam, it was really easy and it didnt even require confirmations.. the money was loaded as soon as i sent the bitcoin..

it gives you credit in your wallet, you can use to buy anything. i put 50$ on it and i got a couple games.
they did charge me tax.. so if you are looking for a 9.99 game you gotta put 15$ on it..

I saw some steam games there and for around $8 you can play a good steam game. This is a good step of steam to accept bitcoin. Though i never experienced buying games there. Im looking forward to buy games from them.$5 just for tax. That was huge for tax. But its worth the games you bought.

no not 5$ for tax.. you can only do 5, 10, 25, and 50

so if you want something for 9.99 you cant just put 10$ on it and buy it.

just tried filling my steam wallet with BTC for 10$ today, never know they have this feature yet before I read this post
haha now its easier for me since I dont need to buy it from third party anymore

You not making any sense? It also depends on your country. I didn't know they had tax why would they have tax ? The prices already have tax included in them. Dude what in the hell are you even talking about ? Do you even know ?

have you ever checked steam store?
when you purchase something worth $X they will charge you and additional amount called tax and you end up paying $X+$Y in the end.
why are you surprised about this?

I dont buy games, it's easy to download games from torrents.

I used Bitcoin to buy a few game on Steam. It's quite interesting, I pay with Bitcoin is simple and convenient. The total value of the orders that I bought on Steam is 68$. Previously I only use Paypal, but now I have another great choice anymore :D

I have never bought games
using bitcoin but I think bitcoin
can use to buy games.

Some games are worth buying, like mmos or some mobas, but most of singleplayer games could be torrented.

Support the gaming industry, buy games if you like them.

I have bought CS:GO with bitcoin payments from steam but got quite surprised to see they also have 30 days lock down period for bitcoin purchase also like with normal credit card payments to prevent chargebacks LOL.

I think i have paid almost 15$ for it but later on find out that you can purchase same game in cheap rate from other members or as gift.  :(

I've done a total of 10 transactions with Bitcoin on my Steam account
and the total amount of money from those 10 transactions is approximately 86 USD.
Do you think I've spent too much on game? ;D

Wait, I didn't know that Fivver has removed the Bitcoin payment on their system.

I bought two CS:GO Keys, so I bought a $5 Steam Wallet Code with BTC. It is my second thing bought with BTC. I bought GTA V and a few other games before, on Xbox One. The transaction went instantly completed (I chose to pay the default fees), and I got my money instantly in game.

Yes fivver have stopped accepting bitcoin payments from few months ago.

I prefer to buy steam keys and items from g2a like marketplace where we can get good discount. Why to pay more if we can get same thing at cheaper rate.

I didnt buy a game from steam by using bitcoin but i do made some purchases which i do pay with bitcoin on steam on which is steam wallet codes because i do use this to load up and buy items on marketplace on dota 2 game which is really a good thing and gives convenience for me.

Yes, I have to agree with you on that, SC2 has so much more to offer. The extra Arcade type games built into it, is even more fun than

SC multiplayer. I like to buy strategy games and have bought the latest Rome & Stronghold. Here is a tutorial for people who wants

to work through Localbitcoin --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWg0bCm8Ve8

Come to think of it, I going to buy this next --> https://steambitshop.com/?page=item&id=57

So far I didn't bought any games from Steam with bitcoins. I'm not a gamer, because I don't have enough free time to play games. But maybe later I will try to do it, it can be interesting experience for me.

I am more bummed that Humble Bundle suspended support for Bitcoin purchases and now I need to exchange coins to PayPal but sometimes the deals there are not to be missed so it's worth the additional hassle.

I haven't tried to buy any games from steam and i haven't made any transactions from but maybe the price would still be based on the original price of any games in dollars which may be ranging from $10 to $30 depending on the game package . And actually I still didn't know how can I buy directly using bitcoin .

Humble Bundle didn't suspend the support for Bitcoin purchases, we can still pay the bundle with Bitcoin. But indeed on the recent bundle (the Namco Bundle) the Bitcoin payment has been disabled, but you can still pay with Bitcoin on another bundle.

Oh, I've seen a couple of bundles lately that didn't have Bitcoin payments.
It's also a real pain that you can't buy anything with Bitcoin in their store. Seems like a pretty half assed way to 'support' Bitcoin payments.

I'm hoping that they will expand their Bitcoin support to the whole website and folllow suit with Steam.

I earn bitcoins  just to buy games and in game items from Steam.
Signature Campaigns play an important role in helping me earn bitcoins and then use them.on steam
Not only steam , g2a also accepts Bitcoin . It is also a site which you can trust.
I have till now purchased cs go for $8 and it's ingame items worth $16.

I haven't tried it yet and upon checking I just realized you can buy steam games using bitcoins now. That's amazing and convenient. Maybe if I were to buy from steam using bitcoins, I would wait for the steam sale and look for the games I like. I usually like RPG games so that would be my choice for the games I would buy.

Nothing wrong with using external services like G2A to buy Steam codes, but keep in mind that Steam accepting Bitcoin has a much greater impact than those other services accepting it.
That's the reason why I'd personally try to buy more games using Bitcoin from Steam directly.

Even I said the same thing. I buy games from Steam. I do not buy games from g2a. I just buy ingame items like skins in cs go.
From g2a that's it.
And when it comes to any other thing like trading and stuff , I do it in steam itself

Those might just be the most expensive games you have bought in your life, if Bitcoin's price goes to the Moon later this year.  ::) ... I guess what

you are doing with your signature campaigns earnings is your business, but I would rather want to see people hoarding some of their coins to

reap the rewards when Bitcoin goes to the moon. I have a rule : Hoard 80% and spend 20% to stimulate the economy and to support companies

that accepts Bitcoin or they will stop doing it.  :D

How good that I do not depend on online games. All others can be downloaded for free via torrent. Why pay for "Resident Evil 7 Biohazard" if it is already cracked.
Do not waste your time on online games, is a drug! Dota 2 is the shit! (Satoshi Nakamoto ®)

Keep in mind that products based on Dollar makes Bitcoin change its value. If you buy a game worth 15$ as of now you have to pay .0152 BTC. It always change now the aim of people is to lessen the Bitcoin they will use for buying any product. The higher the value of Bitcoin the lesser Bitcoin you will pay for the product.

Yes i have bought a few games from steam and it was a really easy process. far easier than having to enter all the card details that you have to do when paying by CC.  i think the game i purchased was trove and escapists.  ;D

Good point and it's something that I've definitely taken advantage of when I'd bought Bitcoin for around 800 dollars and buying a game on Steam a few days later when the price went up again.
It's not much that you save on such low value purchases, but still pretty nice :)

It depends at what rate have you bought the bitcoins, if it is lower than the price at the moment of purchase then it is a benefit spending the bitcoins on the right place instead of trying to exchange in cash (and paying different fees) and then buying though paypal or credit card which is a long process reaching this.

Well i help my friend to top up his account, he buy some in-game item and a few games, that cost like 25$ or so.

Even better: if you spend bitcoins, buy more. Then you don't have to worry about the rising value.

That's what I do. I still have my initial investment even though I have spent a bunch of bitcoins at Steam and Purse.io over the last year or two.

I think the last time i purchased a game on steam using bitcoin i spent like £20,  which is usually bang on my average spend.  Steam is great for buying games with bitcoin so easy......

I already do spend and able to buy steam games and stuffs using bitcoin back when steam firstly accepts bitcoins as payment method.I always buy an steam wallet code or steam wallet credits using my bitcoins for the reason that i will less more money when i use bitcoins as mode of payment.Already spent about 100$ more credits on steam game and in game items

I have tried several times using steam and I have tries to use my bitcoin but I always gets error and never get the chance to send my bitcoins to steam. I am confused and I got lost as to what will I do next or what step did I made a wrong move. But I keep on trying how to do it but I am afraid that when I send my bitcoins to steam it will go to waste and so I just used the ordinary method of purchasing games from steam. Hope I can use bitcoin to buy games in steam but I need a tutorial so it will go well.

Oh I see. I haven't tried it so I never had the chance to get to the part where I have to send bitcoins to steam. I'll check it out later and see if I would have any success. Though I see a lot of people in steam forum selling other stuff for bitcoins, like CS:GO keys for unlocking crates and other skins for sale using bitcoins.

Did not buy off-steam allot because steam's rates are extremely high compared to even smaller merchant websites offering steam products Let alone forum merchants selling items at a small rate compared to theirs. I did buy few games though and the BTC payment option was good before. did not see it for a while so not sure if they did take it down or not.

I wouldn't call Steam's rates extremely high, sure those websites that sell Steam codes usually sell them for less, but the difference isn't that big. Plus, by bying from Steam directly with Bitcoin, that's just another big company that has some incentive to keep offering Bitcoin payments.

And Steam also has a lot of sales which makes prices even better than on those other websites.

For the last 6 months or so, I have been buying Steam games and in-game items, most of which for CS:GO and Dota 2 but I have also bought several AAA releases on Steam and other stuff too. So upon doing a quick look on my account, I have spent almost $500 in bitcoin for games and in-game items up to now. It might be more expensive to buy it with bitcoins but it's more efficient and more easier to use bitcoins than CC (which I never added on my account in the first place.)

I never used bitcoin to buy games directly from steam, did the rate high or it's a fair rate? But if it's from othersite like humblebundle then i've used bitcoin on a few transactions probably about $60 in the last 6 month. I prefer to pay using other method beside bitcoin and save my bitcoin for tading or investment.

i bought small indie game, i spent not so much like 0.01 btc, it was very satisfying to pay in bitcoin, i'll buy more when the time come

I bought steam games (Assassin's Creed 3) and i bought it for 12$ in bitcoin. Paying and getting the game is pretty easy and smooth and this is great for me and some of us because we can now use our bitcoin to buy different kind of things that we like. I hope soon, this kind of online business will expand and not only games but also other things will be offer and pay by bitcoin.

the funny thing is that when Steam didn't accept bitcoin, i was a gamer and wanted them to accept bitcoin, i even asked the support team multiple times and they always said we are considering it.
but when they finally added support for bitcoin payment, i was not much of a gamer anymore because of life and being busy in general. although i have topped off my steam wallet with some bitcoin and i think i still have balance there about 50 bucks remaining that i have not yet spent!

Buying Steam game with bitcoin is the most effective way to support Bitcoin and make it more popular to other people. I have bought many steam game by bitcoin and it is very convenient. However, the prices are not very cool. Bitcoin is more valuable than other kinds of payment but we have to pay the same price like them. For example, Bitcoin is worth +5%-10% preev in PayPal but in steam, the price of game in Bitcoin and Paypal are equal.

Aren't they charging the same prices with all payment methods? I don't see why they would need to lower the prices for purchases with Bitcoin.
I know that some companies do that, but just don't see it as a requirement.

I didn't know that so many people here use Steam. I mean it makes a little bit of sense as this being a computer forum and all.

I haven't purchased anything from steam though I purchased $1,000+ with BTC at Gamestop.

no it is not indeed , but people around here sometimes use steam and buy games with bitcoin for the sake help the merchant of bitcoin growing faster , so another similar merchants will follow how steam adopt bitcoin as their payment processor.
i don't often play games , but i have bought several games there with bitcoin foo.

yes i had bought a lightweight game with bitcoin that too online from a website the game is action game and was the first game to be bought online with bitcoin. I generally buy web host and domains with bitcoin because bank payment is more tedious for me.

Well why not  :), in my country, the steam regional pricing is sooo much cheaper than price in $. The only time i purchased games from somewhere else is when humblebundle or bundlestar has a good bundle running or there's some glitch in other site. Steam is also easy to use and it's nice to organize your games into one application.

It's good to see that people here isn't just about money and they are having fun!

Helping another human being out is the right thing to do, nice job.


The price difference is very interesting to note, thanks for that I didn't realize that until now.

yeaaa since i know not much i can do to help bitcoin grow faster as payment processor .
i always wondering to see bitcoin really used globally , i mean even a non-tech savvy use and spend bitcoin .
steam have a large community , and i have invited a lot of people to use bitcoin to buy a game there and so far most of them really interested in bitcoin.

Oh ok that great, which kind of ganes do they have there, I'll like to try buying something from there. Do they ship internationally? I guess I have to do the research myself but any input would be appreciated very much.

Most people here bought the digital version of the game, It's easier and simpler, you can just bought it and download it. Steam sell a lot of games, don't know the exact number. Currently i don't know merchant who sell phyical version in bitcoin.

I have never tried to buy games with bitcoin, but I am waiting to blizzard start to accept bitcoins for their games. I am a big fan of their games, but I don't want to spend money from my salary for such not serious things. But I would spend bitcoins gladly :D

Me too, I never tried buying one, I am not that kind of guy who puts money on my gaming, I just download good games online. And I dont really had that enough bitcoin to buy one. Though I love FPS games so if I had enough bitcoin I will buy one