Buy Steam Vouchers at Gamestop

[Demon_Skeith]

A GameStop source has told Kotaku that, given the relative failure of the company's push into online PC sales via its purchase of Impulse, it's now trying something a little more practical. Namely, selling Steam vouchers in its bricks-and-mortar stores.
After all, if you can't beat 'em, skim a little of their money off the top instead.

The vouchers will apparently go on sale on May 15, and are reportedly a "kind of a sensitive issue" between GameStop and Valve owing to the fact it's an awkward way for either party to be making money.

We've contacted Valve to confirm, and will update if we hear back.

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[tetutato]

Interesting... But you contacted Valve or did Kotaku contact Valve?

 

[froggyboy604]

I think this kind of defeats the purpose of Steam (pay online, and download install your game on your home computer from Steam) since you can just buy the physical PC game disc at Gamestop for a slightly higher or the same price in the PC game section instead at Gamestop. It would make more sense for Steam to sell Games via disc at Gamestop at the same price as online games sold on steam, so the user won't have to go home, and download the game with the voucher code, and can just use the Data on the disc to install the game.

It seems kind of time consuming to buy a voucher for Steam to use on your computer to download a steam game to install on your computer.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Interesting... But you contacted Valve or did Kotaku contact Valve?

Haha, I wish I could. But no Kotaku was tipped off by one of their sources it seems.

 

[tetutato]

I think this kind of defeats the purpose of Steam (pay online, and download install your game on your home computer from Steam) since you can just buy the physical PC game disc at Gamestop for a slightly higher or the same price in the PC game section instead at Gamestop. It would make more sense for Steam to sell Games via disc at Gamestop at the same price as online games sold on steam, so the user won't have to go home, and download the game with the voucher code, and can just use the Data on the disc to install the game.

It seems kind of time consuming to buy a voucher for Steam to use on your computer to download a steam game to install on your computer.

Agreed but I think this will definitely let some console store buyers know that PC is in the gaming battle as well

 

[Demon_Skeith]

And confirmed. It's called Steam Wallet and codes will be available at $20 or $50 valued cards.

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[tetutato]

And confirmed. It's called Steam Wallet and codes will be available at $20 or $50 valued cards.

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They should at least give you some sort of bonus credit for making you walk to the store

 

[froggyboy604]

I wonder if anyone will buy them online, and have them shipped to their house, so they can use the voucher codes on Steam when it arrives to their home which might make it more expensive because shipping and handling is not free.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

They should at least give you some sort of bonus credit for making you walk to the store

you can just buy it as you buy some big PS3 or Xbox 360 game.

 

[tetutato]

you can just buy it as you buy some big PS3 or Xbox 360 game.

Meh I guess it's ok. Still, they should offer something like, spent $60 and get $5 steam credit