Steam Global gift cards

[Hermano.]

Can global steam gift cards be redeemed in argentina?

[Wolf Knight]

there are no global gift cards. the physical cards have region restrictions now. if the card ts not same currency as the account is set for, the card is unlikely to work.

are you trying to send someone a gift card?

[Ogami]

They can not. Only Steam Wallet cards that work in Argentina are the ones with Argentinian Peso as currency on them.
Also digital gift cards cant be send to Argentina anymore from other countries, just from inside Argentina.

[Hermano.]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Wolf Knight:

there are no global gift cards. the physical cards have region restrictions now. if the card ts not same currency as the account is set for, the card is unlikely to work.

are you trying to send someone a gift card?

Yea... I was trying to send my friend 10 euro for his birthday and he studies in argentina so thats a bummer. Thanks anyway for the help!

[Ogami]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Hermano.:

Yea... I was trying to send my friend 10 euro for his birthday and he studies in argentina so thats a bummer. Thanks anyway for the help!

There are online stores that sell Steam Wallet cards in different currencies.
You could just buy him one in the correct one and gift him the code.

[Hermano.]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Ogami:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Hermano.:

Yea... I was trying to send my friend 10 euro for his birthday and he studies in argentina so thats a bummer. Thanks anyway for the help!

There are online stores that sell Steam Wallet cards in different currencies.
You could just buy him one in the correct one and gift him the code.

Yea just did that. Bought him 1000 ars from g2a.

[disgusting noob]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Ogami:

They can not. Only Steam Wallet cards that work in Argentina are the ones with Argentinian Peso as currency on them.
Also digital gift cards cant be send to Argentina anymore from other countries, just from inside Argentina.

Regarding the second paragraph... is this official / verifiable? I googled a bit and only found information supposedly from Steam support that they are aware of an issue with digital gift card system and that it is taking them time to fix.

[Ogami]

Well, they been saying that for 4 months now and its still only Argentinia where digital gift cards cant be send from outside. Seems pretty deliberate after this time.
Sending Digital Gift Cards was one of the only methods left how users who had a second account in Argentinia to buy cheap games could fund that account.
Direct payment was already only possible with locally registered payment methods since last year, same for region switching in general.

So this seems more like a deliberate action on Valve´s part to dry out the huge amount of fake Argentinian accounts floating around.

Of course i could be totally wrong and its really just some bug/error but then Valve seems pretty incompetent if they dont even know what it is after 4 months.

[disgusting noob]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Ogami:

Well, they been saying that for 4 months now and its still only Argentinia where digital gift cards cant be send from outside. Seems pretty deliberate after this time.
Sending Digital Gift Cards was one of the only methods left how users who had a second account in Argentinia to buy cheap games could fund that account.
Direct payment was already only possible with locally registered payment methods since last year, same for region switching in general.

So this seems more like a deliberate action on Valve´s part to dry out the huge amount of fake Argentinian accounts floating around.

Of course i could be totally wrong and its really just some bug/error but then Valve seems pretty incompetent if they dont even know what it is after 4 months.

Ok thank you for the information. But there is a bit speculation included because there appears not to be an official announcement from Steam. And we do get an error message. If it was deliberate, why not cancel the option for good / offiicially.

In any case, digital codes in ARG currency can still be bought from 3rd party sellers. So much for dry out.

[Shichiya]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Ogami:

Well, they been saying that for 4 months now and its still only Argentinia where digital gift cards cant be send from outside. Seems pretty deliberate after this time.
Sending Digital Gift Cards was one of the only methods left how users who had a second account in Argentinia to buy cheap games could fund that account.
Direct payment was already only possible with locally registered payment methods since last year, same for region switching in general.

So this seems more like a deliberate action on Valve´s part to dry out the huge amount of fake Argentinian accounts floating around.

Of course i could be totally wrong and its really just some bug/error but then Valve seems pretty incompetent if they dont even know what it is after 4 months.

The Argentina economy was always kinda messed up, wouldn't be surprised if one day the entire Argentina region was removed from steam as (from what I recalled someone saying) it is losing Steam tons of money.

[happy]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Hermano.:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Wolf Knight:

there are no global gift cards. the physical cards have region restrictions now. if the card ts not same currency as the account is set for, the card is unlikely to work.

are you trying to send someone a gift card?

Yea... I was trying to send my friend 10 euro for his birthday and he studies in argentina so thats a bummer. Thanks anyway for the help!

Man, recently theres been so many people wanting to Gift their friend, that coincidentally always lives in Argentina, some Steam Wallet.

[disgusting noob]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von koRRupted mInd:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Hermano.:

Yea... I was trying to send my friend 10 euro for his birthday and he studies in argentina so thats a bummer. Thanks anyway for the help!

Man, recently theres been so many people wanting to Gift their friend, that coincidentally always lives in Argentina, some Steam Wallet.

Maybe this is something for philosphers but I reckon the coincidence is called globalisation enhanced by digitalisation.