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Has steam changed their papyal email address?

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Kaname

Just bought a game on steam (gta vice city) then checked my email for the receipt. Instead of it being the usual

Receipt for Your Payment to Steam Games‏

Merchant

Steam Games

paypalsupport@valvesoftware.com

It was instead,

Receipt for Your Payment to WWW.Steampowered.com‏

Merchant

WWW.Steampowered.com

steamgameseu@steampowered.com

Just wanted to see if anybody else has this?

1 decade ago*

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Peroxide

Now let's see people try to claim they're not cracking down on people purchasing games from different regions.

steamgamesEU@steampowered.com

I imagine if you ordered from the US region, it would be steamgamesUS@steampowered.com and so on.

1 decade ago
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Kaname

So I'm guessing they have changed it then? Just wanted to make sure my money is going to the right people!

1 decade ago
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NB264

Well, if you purchased the game via official Steam site/client, there's nothing to worry about.

1 decade ago
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vidmavidma

Yep.

1 decade ago
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Peroxide

You're the one with the confirmation, not me!

If you were on the Steam site and were redirected to PayPal from there, I wouldn't be worried as it still steampowered.com.

I believe it's a new method to detour or detect people from other regions buying from RU. The money going to the steamgamesRU@steampowered.com should only be coming from RU PayPal accounts and games delivered to a RU Steam accounts. Rather than filtering everything in one generic PayPal address.

Know what I mean? Since you're in GB and yours was steamgamesEU@steampowered.com, it makes sense.

1 decade ago
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Kaname

Ah, just got a bit worried that's all. Thanks for that!

1 decade ago
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PsyKo

Did steam allowed paypal in Russia? It was unavailable there. But, that was some time ago, it could have changed I guess.

1 decade ago
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PsyKo

Or, it could be taxes thing. And law thing, especially after EU court said "software licences bought onlice can be resold". And Steam treating EU differently then America (and probably rest of world too), for example in their agreement there's "IF YOU ARE AN EU SUBSCRIBER and bla bla bla" - notice that EU.

But, I guess until someone from other region tell where he sends money (any Australian who just bought something in his Steam?) we won't know for sure if that's their regioning, or something EU made them do.

1 decade ago
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Peroxide

That could be it as well, I was just taking a guess at it.

I had read on some sites that Steam didn't intend to allow EU subscribers to resell their games, but that may be incorrect.

1 decade ago
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PsyKo

Of course they won't. That's why they changed their subscription agreement - to tell us we doesn't buy games from them, but only borrow them, ergo we can't re-sell them - even if we go to shop buy something in a box, you still only borrow it.

Sneaky bastards, aren't they? :P

1 decade ago
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LAJTNING

Was the same for me a couple of days ago, so no worries.

1 decade ago
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Closed 1 decade ago by Kaname.