U.S. retailer GameStop today announced a partnership with behemoth developer Valve, that sees the latter's Steam Wallet initiative made available in GameStop stores.
Today's announcement means that GameStop customers can now purchase physical Steam Cards nationwide, which provide codes to add funds to a customer's Steam account. The cards currently come in $20 and $50 denominations.
GameStop has been coping with the game industry's digital shift over the course of the last year, most recently expanding its selection of PC download codes, bumping the total up to more than 1,500 PC games both new and old.
Seems a smart move to me, you can either be the underdog and be pig headed about it or you can work with the big dog and make money from it. What is it these days? 5 million users on steam concurrently?
Many games are adopting steam as their platform of choice and many gamers want Steam as the service provider. Customer want competition because its good for business but if the competition has the bigger market you may aswell try and make money off their market while you get your own stuff sorted.
The thing about Steam is it's the cheeky chap of the digital world, sure many games now require steam but the service and convenience of steam, their reasonably frequent sales and no hassle setup of updating the client means that while you should be a little irritated you have intsall and run it to play many games, you find yourself thinking...."yeah, actually this does what I want, painfree and thats all it does"
You can use Paypal and Paypal can be directly linked from your bank. That is what i do, it adds a second level of security, need a password to access my steam account and another password to access paypal.
Many games are adopting steam as their platform of choice and many gamers want Steam as the service provider. Customer want competition because its good for business but if the competition has the bigger market you may aswell try and make money off their market while you get your own stuff sorted.
The thing about Steam is it's the cheeky chap of the digital world, sure many games now require steam but the service and convenience of steam, their reasonably frequent sales and no hassle setup of updating the client means that while you should be a little irritated you have intsall and run it to play many games, you find yourself thinking...."yeah, actually this does what I want, painfree and thats all it does"
How can you get mad at that as a consumer?