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Valve Discontinues Physical Steam Gift Cards at Retail Stores Due to Constantly Adapting Gift Card Scams

10 June 2026 at 17:48

Steam logo on a collage of video game covers including Gears 5, Cyberpunk, and Stardew Valley.

Valve has made a slight but not insignificant change to how you can buy games on Steam. The physical pre-paid Steam gift cards that you may have seen in your local retail shops will be no more, as the company decides to discontinue the cards due to an uptick in scammers using Steam cards (and the gift cards of other major brands) to run various schemes and scam people out of their money. The notice quietly came as a part of the support page for Steam Gift cards (spotted by user SteamDB on Twitter), where the FAQ explains that you […]

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