You don’t, my wife bought one for me and she does not use Steam. However I don’t think she got a code but instead gave my email address and I got sent the code to use. No idea if there are other options for this though.
Comment on Steam is ending the physical Steam Gift Cards at retailers!
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 7 hours agoDigital Steam Cards are still be able to gifted to another account. But that requires the person to have a Steam account and be friends with you too, so no more Steam cards from your mom I guess (or mine).
gedfromgont@piefed.ca 7 hours ago
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
email makes sense, if she does not have Steam. Thanks for confirmation.
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
bctripster@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
I’m glad they are killing physical cards as you get zero support on them anyway. Received one a couple years back, my wife purchased it at a 7/11 on Dec 24, gave it to me Dec 25, I go to enter it on Dec 26 and last 4 digits under the wax scratch were undecipherable, submit a ticket to Steam and was told the code was already used and to contact retailer.
Obviously the retailer has a “no refund” policy and provides no support. Valve of course should easily be able to track which account received the funds, but nope, not even willing to track obvious fraud while I held the physical card in my possession with receipt from retailer showing original purchase and activation.
Left a bad taste and I lost a bit of respect for Steam, barely purchased anything since and we don’t buy Steam cards for the kids anymore either.