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Topic: SteamCoin - Buy Steam Games for Bitcoin (Read 14035 times)

legendary
Activity: 2114
Merit: 1015
September 23, 2012, 11:26:37 AM
#58
I'd like to buy one game but it seems that the service is down. Is it permanent?
sr. member
Activity: 242
Merit: 251
September 06, 2012, 02:58:51 PM
#57
I second that. I was aching to buy KOTOR 2 and I keep putting it off, hoping steamcoin reopens.
legendary
Activity: 1778
Merit: 1008
August 23, 2012, 05:49:13 PM
#56
hey steamcoin, any chance of this service returning? ever? Sad
hero member
Activity: 734
Merit: 507
Anyone who want buy Steam games - feel free to check my offer. The prices are much lower than retail, because games were bought on promotions. And if there's no game you want - just contact me, I can get all of them what you want. I recommend the bitmit, it's like ebay but bitcoin based. ;-)
sr. member
Activity: 476
Merit: 250
Power to the people!
would be cool if this was back up lol right now would be a big time to make alot of coins with everyone wanting to buy steam games on sell.  Also have you tried the exchage that btcbuy uses they had the same problem and had to switch to a smaller exchange they use BitFloor.
legendary
Activity: 2184
Merit: 1056
Affordable Physical Bitcoins - Denarium.com
This is really cool. Using Bitpay is definitely a good option. I didn't even know a site like this exists. I buy Steam games occasionally so this is a service I want to use.
newbie
Activity: 144
Merit: 0
Thanks for your thoughts thatbluedude. I think I will try and get a BitPay account and at least implement it into the site and test it out. I don't really have an ETA on that as it's a bit of work getting it all set up, but I'll definitely be posting updates here as I make progress.
full member
Activity: 196
Merit: 100
my opinion as someone who spend ~5 btc on your site during summer sale:
if you can set this bitpay thing up quickly, do it, raise fees, put big banner on site "fees double, mtgox sux" and see what happens. even with higher fees I see still at least two reasons to use your site: 1: its in $, 7$ vs 13€ leaves room for fees. 2: games are not bought from a german account, so I avoid issues like " this low violence version is available in german only"
newbie
Activity: 144
Merit: 0
Why not use bitpay? It seems companies have privileges when withdrawing from gox.
I did indeed look into BitPay and it seems like the best option for more quickly getting money back into my account from transactions. However, I would ultimately have to raise my fees in order to cover the extra cost of the fees they charge. It's a bit tricky as the BitPay fee would apply to the total amount of the order, rather than just the price of the games (so they'd be charging me fees on my fees, so I'd have to raise my fees to cover the extra fees they're charging on the fees I'm charging which would make the fees they're charging to go up... Yo dawg, I heard you like fees...).
legendary
Activity: 1778
Merit: 1008
do what ya gotta do - i'll be back when you are. my max payne purchase went swimmingly. ...unfortunately i already beat it! Cheesy
full member
Activity: 193
Merit: 100
Why not use bitpay? It seems companies have privileges when withdrawing from gox.
newbie
Activity: 144
Merit: 0
Hey everyone. I have to stop processing orders temporarily due to the large delays in withdrawals from MtGox to Dwolla (which is currently the cheapest option for running SteamCoin, and allows me to keep my low rate). Be assured the downtime is only temporary, but unfortunately right now I just can't process any more orders until some of my money comes through from MtGox. I hope you all understand and will consider SteamCoin in the future. I'm hoping to have the site back up for a least a couple of days during the remainder of the Summer Sale.
legendary
Activity: 1778
Merit: 1008
been dying for some max payne 3... here goes! (this will be one of the first things i've actualyl spent btc on that wasn't satoshi dice or mining related... Cheesy)
legendary
Activity: 1148
Merit: 1008
If you want to walk on water, get out of the boat
Yup, fee sent with that transaction, it has already some confirmations.

Thank you for the service!
newbie
Activity: 144
Merit: 0
Trying to buy Deus Ex Human Revolution now, i hope there won't be any problem with the fact that the offer will end in 4 hours
Edit: BTC sent, let's hope

I think I just filled your order. Also, it's a good idea to send a transaction fee if the sale for the game you're ordering is going to end soon (this goes for everyone).

Thanks for your order Smiley
legendary
Activity: 1148
Merit: 1008
If you want to walk on water, get out of the boat
Trying to buy Deus Ex Human Revolution now, i hope there won't be any problem with the fact that the offer will end in 4 hours
Edit: BTC sent, let's hope
Edit2: Game received and added to my Steam account! In less than half a hour, perfect service!
newbie
Activity: 144
Merit: 0
Hey all. Please bear with me for a bit, as it seems there is some technical issue with the price update script that's causing it to only list games on sale/not list all the games. I'm currently debugging it and I'll post an update as soon as it's fixed up.

Thanks for your patience!

Edit: Seems to be working correctly now.
newbie
Activity: 144
Merit: 0
Are there issues with the pricing on certain items?
The price update script is set to run at a certain time each hour. If the price of a game/pack/dlc changes in between the time the script runs, it's possible for the price to be incorrect. If you see something wrong, don't hesitate to email me at [email protected], or you can try and wait an hour or so and check back to see if the update script has fixed it (if I recall correctly, it's set to run at :55 after the hour).

So, are you guys also making the steam summer sale?

For the most part, the Summer Sale items should show up on the Sales tab (or say "On Sale!" in the regular list in red). Certain items from the Steam Store won't show up, such as special editions of games that only appear on the main game's page. There's not a whole lot I can do about this as it would require scraping all ~2000 game pages individually, which simply takes too long. Right now the compromise is basically that SteamCoin will pick up anything that appears in the Steam Store search results. If it doesn't show up there, it won't be on SteamCoin.

However, feel free to message me at [email protected] if you have a particular game/pack/dlc you want that isn't showing up in the store and I can set it to be added.
sr. member
Activity: 364
Merit: 250
So, are you guys also making the steam summer sale?
donator
Activity: 308
Merit: 250
Are there issues with the pricing on certain items?
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