Valve restricted game purchasing for Russian users on Steam

[Goodbye Horses]

Really?
What's exactly the reason to punish russian gamers?

[Shady Knights]

Valve is a US company, based in the USA. Taking money from Russian customers will likely be in violation of the sanctions that the US Government has placed on Russia.

[blunus]

Yes really. Valve comply with sanctions against Russia, it's the exact reason for it. Russia users can still purchase games using steam wallet and paypal though.

[[☭]-Soviet-Triumph-]

Bruh it's not even Valve complying, Mastercard, Visa, pretty every international payment providers blocked Russian Rubles from entering their system.

[Mars]

it's the right thing from valve, so people from russia should not gave money to US aslong the sanction goes on. most of the payment holder is based in US.

what the wrong thing about steam now, indies game started to use "Support ukraine" to get attention. likely this support thing make entire user goes violate steam rules and guidelines, valve shouldnt let dev do this kind of support from the first place... dev doesnt even need to worry about losing their own money, since t's from gamer who buy their game and send those money for donation and they get credits for it.....

will we see hentai game using this "Support ukraine" in the future? is it allowed or steam will bann it because it's "Adult game" while kids who doesnt even understand war, now got to see games banner about support a nation in war

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Originally posted by NoiseX:

Really?
What's exactly the reason to punish russian gamers?

Valve didnt block anything, its the means of how you pay is simply changed, everything else is still the same

[Goodbye Horses]

Originally posted by General Chibi Supreme:

Originally posted by NoiseX:

Really?
What's exactly the reason to punish russian gamers?

Valve didnt block anything, its the means of how you pay is simply changed, everything else is still the same

Good to know thanks.

[Brian9824]

AFAIK its not a sanction against russians, but russian banks.

So Russians can still buy games if using non russian banks or payment methods like gift cards. Also as mentioned its international sanctions

[no154370]

March 1 (Reuters) - U.S. payment card firms Visa Inc (V.N) and Mastercard Inc have blocked multiple Russian financial institutions from their network, complying with government sanctions imposed over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

Visa said on Monday it was taking prompt action to ensure compliance with applicable sanctions, adding that it will donate $2 million for humanitarian aid. Mastercard also promised to contribute $2 million.

"We will continue to work with regulators in the days ahead to abide fully by our compliance obligations as they evolve," Mastercard said in a separate statement late on Monday.

from the link i provide below

https://www.reuters.com/business/mastercard-blocks-multiple-russian-financial-institutions-network-2022-03-01/

[Miles (Tails) Prower]

I still be able to pay through QIWI, via Tenge currency. A small workaround, but with commision. Better than nothing, I guess.