Paysafe was good long ago. Nowadays it basically wants you to have an account, giving them all your data. The exact opposite of what "paysafe" stood for. I used to load up my wallet using paysafe until I at some point had to give them a picture of my ID and my bankaccount data to get my 50€ back that the card cost, because they locked the code for no reason. Otherwise I would have simply lost 50€.

So yes, I definitely would not recommend using it either.

Well hate to break to you every other payments provider going ask for information, and accounts. With raise of fruad, and scams it no shock why things changed, can't have nice things as long bad actors exist.

If you mainly want be anonymous with tin foil hat, just buy steam gift card from your local retailer.
https://steamhelp.yuanyoumao.com/en/faqs/view/5BB2-E986-A733-CF0E

Oprindeligt skrevet af Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Well hate to break to you every other payments provider going ask for information, and accounts. With raise of fruad, and scams it no shock why things changed, can't have nice things as long bad actors exist.

If you mainly want be anonymous with tin foil hat, just buy steam gift card from your local retailer.
https://steamhelp.yuanyoumao.com/en/faqs/view/5BB2-E986-A733-CF0E

the point is they are a shady company who doesnt list these things such as photo id needed to unlock your account, or that they auto lock your account and want photo id... not everyone has photo id.
and some banks dont allow their cards to be used on steam believe it or not...

nothing to do with me wanting to stay anonymous... i used my own card and i would have had to go into town and go buy the top up cards for steam otherwise and a lot of retailers dont sell them.

i should have went into town or bought the cards online but i didnt want to wait the few days til they arrived.

heres the thing too in case you didnt know.. paysafe charges £5 per month for accounts that are inactive... so theres the scam ... they lock you out of your account and wont refund you and wont close the account, literally stealing your money.

Let me put it this way, based on my own experience with Paysafe. A company that refuse on request to delete collected data through the not even completed registration process on request (and thus, without a finalized contract) cannot be trusted anyway.

And I'm only talking about simple text input, so nothing to do with ID/uploads or anything like that. That was the reason why i canceled my registration before it came to that.

It’s always annoying when companies think they’re above the GDPR or other related laws. Well, it happened a longer time ago, but the mechanics seem to be the same.

The good thing is, you don't need Paysafe. Not even on Steam.

Sounds more like their system is being used for fraud/scams/money laundering or whatever too frequently and they have been hit by banks and/or government(s) requiring better proof of who is doing the transactions through their system to reduce it in order to stay in business.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Salty:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Well hate to break to you every other payments provider going ask for information, and accounts. With raise of fruad, and scams it no shock why things changed, can't have nice things as long bad actors exist.

If you mainly want be anonymous with tin foil hat, just buy steam gift card from your local retailer.
https://steamhelp.yuanyoumao.com/en/faqs/view/5BB2-E986-A733-CF0E

the point is they are a shady company who doesnt list these things such as photo id needed to unlock your account, or that they auto lock your account and want photo id... not everyone has photo id.
and some banks dont allow their cards to be used on steam believe it or not...

nothing to do with me wanting to stay anonymous... i used my own card and i would have had to go into town and go buy the top up cards for steam otherwise and a lot of retailers dont sell them.

i should have went into town or bought the cards online but i didnt want to wait the few days til they arrived.

heres the thing too in case you didnt know.. paysafe charges £5 per month for accounts that are inactive... so theres the scam ... they lock you out of your account and wont refund you and wont close the account, literally stealing your money.

People scream everything shady one way, or another, but yes if they don't inform, or have some kind of disclaimer, even in it card purchase this would be issue. Funny, but not funny is that pre paid cards may lock, or block things unless contact their support, or meeting their verification flag system that was triggered. I had friend got his joker master card gift card locked because their system thought someone stole his card, he had to wait over a week for them mail him a replacement after providing photo of the gift card, his ID, and address which I bought the game he wanted on sale for him so wouldn't miss it.

Photo ID shouldn't be hard to for your own identification.

Anyways yes some banks can provide credit service link to your debit card have to check with your bank, they're easily obtained, and start from age of 16+ as a requirement. Compare to normal credit card have be 18+ with enough income to meet their standards for basic cards.

And last part them taking money, yes not all services are free case, as often come with a catch, example free banks, price could be data they can use, with support funding from others such as government funding program, or etc where believe it, or not they cut corners giving for quality of service, and features compare to others. But anyways all providers have some kind of catch, small, big, or even scummy, but they're not allow to prevent you from knowing their terms and conditions before agreeing, and signing up.


So my advice check your bank, or another see what give you option you want, or consider credit card if possible.