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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[Quore]

I hope Visa & Mastercard won't do it

 

[Blythe93]

Now that's a shame. :/

 

[MohammedQ8]

Bye Pal

 

[whitesword7]

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?

 

[ftjiso]

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

 

[retrospect]

That's pretty lame.

 

[XenoFredo]

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.

 

[PatrickD85]

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.

 

[ZeroT21]

Guess it's steam keys or steam wallet codes

 

[subcon959]

My money is on activist groups lobbying various banks and payment processors and some of them actually taking it seriously.

 

[m00k00]

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.

 

[chrisrlink]

Bye Pal

i honestly agree because you know who created paypal right?

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at this rate collective shout needs to be labled as domestic terrorist if you look up the very definition of terrorism you'll see what i mean

 

[yankii]

i honestly agree because you know who created paypal right?

Elongated Muskrat? I thought he was just a credit thief bankroller/investor who didn't put in any actual work.

 

[LoggerMan]

Steam will make more money using other card processors anyway, as long as it doesn't cost them too many sales from people who only have or will only use PayPal.

 

[SylverReZ]

Time to boycott PayPal for a different provider, but what exactly? Visa & Mastercard had already abused their power to take-down every adult game from every store and not fund the developers for them. What a shame.

 

[yankii]

Doesn't make sense... what did Valve do this time? They removed all offending adult games last time; wasn't that enough for the processors' "brand image"?

 

[yakuku]

The people celebrating about adult games being removed is awfully silent now. I knew this was gonna be something bigger overall and not just stop there.

 

[AlexMCS]

Valve/Steam should have their own bank/payment processor by now.

 

[8BitWonder]

Between all the payment processer shenanigans happening recently, it's going to be real funny if in the next 10 years it gets to a point that to buy a Steam game you need to mail physical money to Valve in order for them to add the game to your library.