alt Hacker NewsA long time ago, I used Paypal to purchase a steam game. This was like 15 years ago. For some reason Paypal marked it as suspicious and immediately cancelled the transaction. Steam then locked me out of my account. I had several dozen games. I couldn't get anyone to reply to me from Steam. To this day, I'm locked out of that account and all of the games I had purchased. I started a new account but yeah it's scary.
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As an expat I cannot even purchase games due to Steam's region locks. The same Paypal account I use to settle invoices worldwide, cannot be used by Steam. Apparently this is due to users attempting to buy games at cheaper regional rates. However, they will not allow me to switch to a more expensive region to buy a video game. They propose that I should travel back to my home country to purchase a game.
That's scary. I use PayPal to pay for steam games just out of convenience.
My account is almost 20 years old (I signed up because you had to in order to play HL2) and I've purchased a lot of games over the years.
Epic did that to me a couple of years back.
Once burned twice shy.
I just stole the games instead!
Recently the Steam client stopped working with old Nvidia cards. So now you can’t start your games anymore even though they technically still work because they have to be started via the client. And you can’t go back to an older, working, client.
I don't really play games much. I bought something on steam a few years ago. It was annoying dealing with their crappy desktop app but whatever.
Then I wanted something else - literally a second game: and it wouldn't recognise either of my cards; all kinds of shenanigans.
I gave up and found Gog. Zero issues. No need to deal with their desktop app if you don't want it. I even bought the original game I had on steam, again, on Gog just so I don't have to deal with their stupid shit.
I realise not everyone has the "luxury" of starting over but I will never understand why if you're forced to start over, you'd choose the same company again.