PayPal, once a popular payment method for buying games on Steam, is no longer usable for those in certain countries. Some users had noted that PayPal was not showing up as a payment method on the storefront, with a small message from Valve explaining as to why:

In early July 2025, PayPal notified Valve that their acquiring bank for payment transactions in certain currencies was immediately terminating the processing of any transactions related to Steam. This affects Steam purchases using PayPal in currencies other than EUR, CAD, GBP, JPY, AUD, and USD. We hope to offer PayPal as an option for these currencies in the future but the timeline is uncertain. We are also evaluating additional payment methods on Steam for the customers affected by this. In the meantime, please use one of our other current payment methods during checkout. If you can't use any of the available options, you can consider using a Steam Wallet code to add funds to your account.

There is no official reason given by Valve as to why this change has occurred. Speculation points towards the recent wave of adult games that have been delisted off of Steam's platform, but for now, there is no correlation between the two incidents.

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[yoyoyo69]

Paypal is still my preferred way of paying online. For reference I use my creditcard THROUGH Paypal.
Why; well so you get Paypal's buyer protection AND your creditcard's buyer protection.
Only had to use that oncce in... pff 20+ years or such.

So seeing the payment option not be available on Steam ... well that's pretty damn lame.

PayPal protection isn't great, I've personally had occasions where they've just completed denied a valid claim.

Also, you don't technically get protection from both your card and PayPal

 

[Osha]

Really wish payment processors stayed in their goddamn lane once and for all.

 

[yankii]

Also, you don't technically get protection from both your card and PayPal

Yes, you do. You can dispute through your card issuer if PayPal refuses the claim.

 

[Kioku]

May just have to start using cash to buy steam cards.

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

Is this gonna be another vague ass “brand reputation” as a reasoning again?

pretty sure your brand got damaged even more if as a “payment processor” you don’t want y’know, process payment?

The US did just have an executive order signed in to make it so they can't use "Reputation" as a reason for it.

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PayPal, once a popular payment method for buying games on Steam, is no longer usable for those in certain countries. Some users had noted that PayPal was not showing up as a payment method on the storefront, with a small message from Valve explaining as to why:



There is no official reason given by Valve as to why this change has occurred. Speculation points towards the recent wave of adult games that have been delisted off of Steam's platform, but for now, there is no correlation between the two incidents.

Source

Man I really wonder what would happen if some major storefront from Steam refused to comply and like Visa or Mastercard blocked them. There would be fucking riots against them lol.

 

[pustal]

Paypal is still my preferred way of paying online. For reference I use my creditcard THROUGH Paypal.
Why; well so you get Paypal's buyer protection AND your creditcard's buyer protection.
Only had to use that oncce in... pff 20+ years or such.

So seeing the payment option not be available on Steam ... well that's pretty damn lame.

You can at least protect a little bit yourself by using virtual cards. We have MBWay that's been spreading to other countries, but other service's like Revolut offer such options as well. You create a virtual card, it is charged, you delete the card, they can't charge your card anymore even if the data is leaked, they can only return money. If you want charge backs, I guess you can create virtual cards associated with a credit card, rather than debit.

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

So Valve.... do you have any interest in processing payments?

 

[kuro0628neko]

That's the typical problem of today's times: Corporations make the rules when we, the people, should make them. The fix would actually be pretty easy: Make a law and force payment providers to process payments for whatever is legal. Don't allow them to force their views or morals on anyone, whether that might be sellers, or buyers. The bad thing is: we more and more are losing our control due to corruption, lobbyism and other shady corporate tactics.

We seriously need to take the power back, otherwise Corporations will dictate our future.

You know, this all started (at least in the USA) with the deplatforming of Alex Jones. It really hit what I believed to be its peak when Twitter, Facebook, etc. deplatformed a sitting president and everyone cheered. Now it's finally affecting the common man and the outrage is pure pottery. Anyone and everyone whom I've ever warned about this over the past decade is finally getting a taste of their own medicine. I hate that we all live in a technocracy, but to all the people who ever told me (even here on gba) that censorship was necessary: you reap what you sow!

 

[GengarsGhostlyGiggles]

Isn't Great Cheeto President trying to stop this with an executive order ?

 

[kuro0628neko]

Isn't Great Cheeto President trying to stop this with an executive order ?

You are exactly the type of person I was just talking about LMAO.

 

[netovsk]

Grateful for whatever helps me refrain from spending money.

 

[UltraAziz]

Really wish payment processors stayed in their goddamn lane once and for all.

they have too much power, we live in a time where digital payments are controlled by a few companies and they can police our purchases

 

[The Catboy]

I honestly feel like Value needs to move to crypto and gift cards. The internet is being bullied by “activists” and companies are caving. Crypto is the only safe option

 

[Dark_Ansem]

Ok but why tho

 

[Bladexdsl]

welp guess i won't be buying civ VII after all

 

[MarkDarkness]

The world has become such a fucking weird place...

 

[Marc_LFD]

I cancelled PayPal back in 2023 because they tried sneaking in a policy that would fine users $2,500 for “misinformation” at their own discretion. People closed their accounts, even their former president and Elon Musk called them out on it, then they tried to backpedal saying it was “an error.” Yeah right.

Exactly. PayPal has always been scummy, but that was the final nail in the coffin.

 

[KingVamp]

Honestly, them and their censorship can go under.

 

[thekarter104]

i heard it's not only paypal. my friends entered their mastercard/visa info on steam and once it checked out they declined them saying there's an error.

i guess the only way to actually buy steam game on certain countries is actually buying steam keys now

Now more people will buy on those shady sites like CDKeys and 2G something, because you're basically forced now.

 

[CoolMe]

using PP is sure handy when buying from Steam, sucks seeing it threatened as well. they should atleast allow users to add funds to their accounts with steam wallet, right?