It doesn't seem to be just Steam. From what I see (from Switzerland), other online stores relying on PayPal seem to be impacted too. Though if the store let me try to use PayPal anyway, I can just switch the currency of the purchase to USD instead of using the currency of the credit card (CHF in my case), thus having my issuing bank do the currency conversion. It seems to work fine so far.
The timing of this problem is weird. Hard not to see a link with the recent troubles with Visa and Mastercard, even if Valve claims that it's not the case.
yetihehe · 1h ago
> The scale of the disruption is staggering. [...] Even EU countries that don’t use the Euro, like Poland with its złoty, are impacted
I don't think anyone in Poland would use PayPal for steam anyway. We have several more convenient options.
slau · 47m ago
Yes, this is a non-issue as far as I understand it.
I’m in a non-Euro zone country, and I have always used Euros to pay for games. I use a local payment card with a 0% conversion rate.
PayPal really isn’t that big of a deal in most of Europe.
The timing of this problem is weird. Hard not to see a link with the recent troubles with Visa and Mastercard, even if Valve claims that it's not the case.
I don't think anyone in Poland would use PayPal for steam anyway. We have several more convenient options.
I’m in a non-Euro zone country, and I have always used Euros to pay for games. I use a local payment card with a 0% conversion rate.
PayPal really isn’t that big of a deal in most of Europe.