Topic: any site recommended for buying games with BTC? (Read 249 times)

Steam used to accept Bitcoins so you can buy games directly, but they've stopped that months ago
The only website that I know that accepts Bitcoin for buying keys are G2a and Kinguin, sucks, I know.
There are an alternatives if you wish to go the long way, you can buy steam wallet from Play-asia and pay with Bitcoin.

G2A, Kinguin and other major reseller are absolute trash and they are allowing users to scam while taking a fee themselves.

In 2017, a lot of YouTubers and previous partners from G2A left G2A due to this...

This is better to explain with an example, so here we go.

Jimmy has just bought 100 stolen credit cards with 20,000 USD each in them for 20,000. But the problem is, the money inside the credit cards are "dirty" which means if he just transferred it into his bank account, he would be easily be caught. So Jimmy does this: Currently, there is a sale for an indie game "The crypto game". Its price is 50 dollars for a copy, and Jimmy then buys 4000 of these copies with this stolen credit cards. He then goes on a key seller site, G2A or the smaller site, kinguin and then sells it for a steal! Just 20 dollars a copy. G2A facilities of all this and they don't care what is being done on their platform. The most they do is banning the account and taking whatever remaining money is left in the account. Then eventually when the people with the stolen credit cards finally see their money gone, they put in a request and eventually get refunded. The indie devs are then forced to give back a lot of profits and are hit with a couple dollars chargeback fee, so they don't just lose a bunch of sales, they also lose money.

Due to G2A's carelessness and obliviousness, they are allowing these thieves to abuse their platform and they are also taking a cut of their dark money [1] and laundering the dirty money for the criminals.

Also, you might say "Just deactivate the stolen keys", but for small devs or companies they don't have the resources and there would be too much public outcry.[2]

[1] G2A charges a fee with G2A shield which is buyer protection (similar to ebay's protection) but they charge a fee for it, or they won't replace a broken key.

[2] This happened when EA killed a couple thousand keys of Battlefront 2 that were purchased by illegal credit cards and faced a fuck-ton of rage.

You can buy keys with BTC and then sell them to refill your wallet or find a seller via the forums.

Sorry for the mini rant.  

~Zapo

I had no idea these third party sites were such cesspools. It's easy enough to deselect all the shite they try to pile on you but I'd be very interested to know how many of these codes are dodgy. There are sellers on there with tens of thousands of trades. Presumably they'd be toast if any of them were questionable.

I actually am a part of the hate train towards those websites but had no idea there was entire community which was aligned with my perspective. The unreal fees they charge and the whole 'safety shield' thingy triggers me on how much they can reap from the whole process of reselling
Is there any P2P key selling intermediate which has cryptos integrated into its system? Would definitely overthrow all these scum.

Wow. Thank you very much for sharing the game purchase site for steam, I was looking for it for a few days but did not find it. I'll review it now, thanks.

You should read carefully because op already mentioned it if he need some game from origin and battlenet, not from steam.

How about buying steam wallet then? It much better and safer in my opinion, where you could find website that offers steam wallet legally and most of them have good support if you are trouble when doing your transaction (I have local merchants that sells steam wallet and it's really good to use till now)

mainly steam,origin and battlenet


i found playasia cheapest right now .

Depends on what games you're looking for. As others have said Kinguin may be the site you're looking for, or G2A. If you just want Steam gift cards and then buy games in the Steam's desktop app then you could do that too, probably the cheapest option.

Instead of using Bitrefill for your Steam gift card purchase though, I'd recommend other methods to get your steam funds for cheaper. Tons of methods out there. It takes some time but it's way better than paying over spot price for Steam gift card funds.

You can usually get around +10-15% if you trade for steam gift cards p2p, or around +5% if you just buy csgo keys with BTC and then sell than for steam funds(after fees).


Never knew this... Thanks for the heads up.

I use spendabit to search for a product that you can pay with bitcoin. If you want to buy any steam game you want I suggest using steambitshop and head to their request page then link the game you want to buy.

What games are you looking for specifically ? maybe we can help.

I was planning to try them out some time in the future but after reading all of the links you posted i'll just spend my coins elsewhere. Thank you for this.

I would advise everyone to avoid Kinguin and G2A at all costs. They don't care about their costumers and are actually hated by the whole PCMR community.

A quick overview on how shit they are: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/wiki/keyresellers

https://www.polygon.com/2015/2/9/8006693/the-truth-behind-those-mysteriously-cheap-gray-market-game-codes
https://www.polygon.com/2017/5/5/15372962/g2a-marketplace-news

You should also take a look on what you actually need to do to disable G2A Shield (a system they use to grab people's money for several months without them knowing): https://imgur.com/gallery/PUwPC

Not sponsored review:

Thanks to mobnepal suggestion , tried bitrefill, once i paid , instantly got my code , like instant. i was amazed about the website, hoping they add more gift card , surely they become my first choice for steam game.

Secondly, i have tried playasia , cheapest among all site like g2a or kinguin , and no fees ! the bad thing about that is using bitpay

If you are looking to buy game from steam than you can use bitrefill steam voucher service which they have recently opened up https://www.bitrefill.com/steam-eur-voucher/

I have used bitrefill or numerous amount of mobile top up but haven't tried steam voucher, should work as promised.

I use Kinguin to buy game with bitcoin. The support is good and you can use Buyer Protection too and they're not just focusing on steam games, but all platform.

The most reputable sites are G2A.com and Kinguin.net and they have pretty much everything including gift cards for different platforms.

any site recommended for buying games with BTC?

can't use steamgamesbtc as i need some game like origin and battlenet