Kinda sucks for me, as I've almost exclusively used gift cards for the last few years. I get a bonus tax-free credit card by my employer, which I can only use at retail stores. So those were a great way for me to use that card to buy games. It was also a good option for people who wanted to avoid payment providers like Visa/Mastercard etc. Oh well.
Sounds like getting rid of Steam gift cards won't solve that problem, they can do the same with other gift cards or even entirely different methods. Is that worth it to exclude minors or other people with no other way to pay?
This won't fix the problem, but it'll make it somebody else's.
They are not fighting scammers with this. It seems that they just do not desire to be caught in scammer business.
glorious cake day to you
This isn't the first time a company has canceled doing gift cards cause of this problem. It wouldn't even be weird to watch the entire concept of gift cards die off due to this problem.
Hell Iv seen major stores flat out stop selling gift cards. Or require really absurd shit like 3 day wait periods to buy them. To try to combat the issue.
Where I live, gift cards are still very widely available.