• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 days ago

    They… kind of sort of already have.

    You can just throw money into your Steam account, via the mechanism they came up with for Steam Gift cards.

    So, buy a physical gift card, or just give Steam your bank/card info, take money out of bank, give to your Steam Gift balance.

    So uh, presumably, that Steam Gift Balance doesn’t exist in a bank anymore, beyond being a withdrawl from your account, its now just … a $USD value associated with your Steam account, that you csn now buy anything with, and your original bank/card company has no visibility into that second transaction.

    So… they could theoretically use what I just described above as a ‘workaround’, you just make the offending games only purchaseable via goon gift balance.