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Mulab Jan 31 @ 9:18pm
Wallet suggestion: would be nice to be able to put money aside in my wallet, to cover market place buys
when ever i buy a game i tend to use up all the funds and then there is nothing left for market place bids I have in place, would be nice if you could set some buffer to always keep in the wallet just for the market place.
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cSg|mc-Hotsauce Jan 31 @ 9:22pm 
You can change the payment method during checkout to use an external payment method instead of your wallet since it always defaults to the wallet first.

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Mulab Jan 31 @ 9:30pm 
yea I do that when I remember too, but look at it this way it takes 3 seconds to sort the payment out, which does not seem like much, but if only 100k people buy a game and have to change the payment type, that is 5000 wasted minutes that could be saved if they had an often to put money aside for the market place.
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Nx Machina Jan 31 @ 10:27pm 
Originally posted by Mulab:
yea I do that when I remember too, but look at it this way it takes 3 seconds to sort the payment out, which does not seem like much, but if only 100k people buy a game and have to change the payment type, that is 5000 wasted minutes that could be saved if they had an often to put money aside for the market place.

Which is a self inflicted problem.

If you want to keep funds in the wallet you change the payment method.
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Fogmoz Feb 8 @ 5:03pm 
Originally posted by Nx Machina:
Which is a self inflicted problem.
No, it's a Steam-created problem. Giving us a wallet, allowing us to add multiple payment methods, but then not allowing us to choose which method is the default or primary payment method for store purchases, is a bad design oversight.
Originally posted by Nx Machina:
If you want to keep funds in the wallet you change the payment method.
Spoken like someone who doesn't use the Market, or have Wallet funds, very often.

Also like... defending something that is actively causing problems, particularly when the solution would require no change for anyone who doesn't want it, is really weird.
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cSg|mc-Hotsauce Feb 8 @ 5:07pm 
Valve changed the checkout process a decade ago to default to wallet funds first. I doubt they'll let us change it any time soon.

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Fogmoz Feb 8 @ 5:17pm 
It probably has something to do with Market integration, since that ONLY interacts with our Wallets.
Still, it's a contradictory system: the Market encourages you to keep money in your Wallet to make sure you can afford your bids when they become available, but the Store encourages you to NOT keep money in your wallet because you don't want the annoyance of extra clicks.
I'm honestly surprised more people don't complain about it.
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cSg|mc-Hotsauce Feb 8 @ 5:20pm 
Originally posted by Fogmoz:
It probably has something to do with Market integration, since that ONLY interacts with our Wallets.
Still, it's a contradictory system: the Market encourages you to keep money in your Wallet to make sure you can afford your bids when they become available, but the Store encourages you to NOT keep money in your wallet because you don't want the annoyance of extra clicks.
I'm honestly surprised more people don't complain about it.

It changed years after the Market released. And bids would be canceled when you fall below the bid amount.

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