Gift cards only function because of payment processors basically.
If visa and MasterCard decide they won’t support steam means you also can’t buy steam gift cards with your debit card suddenly it requires cash.
Stores will get pressured to no longer stock those giftcard or also lose visa/MasterCard support. This has been threatened before and has caused gift cards to be removed from major grocery stores in the us in the past.
You CANT avoid this even swapping to crypto has the same problem. At some point you HAVE to deal with the payment processors.
Even just getting your crypto back out into cash can quickly become problematic for a business.
We the people have options and ways around it sure, but businesses really don’t.
Gift cards only function because of payment processors basically.
If visa and MasterCard decide they won’t support steam means you also can’t buy steam gift cards with your debit card suddenly it requires cash.
Stores will get pressured to no longer stock those giftcard or also lose visa/MasterCard support. This has been threatened before and has caused gift cards to be removed from major grocery stores in the us in the past.
You CANT avoid this even swapping to crypto has the same problem. At some point you HAVE to deal with the payment processors.
Even just getting your crypto back out into cash can quickly become problematic for a business.
We the people have options and ways around it sure, but businesses really don’t.