If you are unable to pay with PayPal on Steam, the valve says that this range is to deal with the content on the platform of one of PayPal’s banking partners. Rock paper shotgun. Consumers have seen that PayPal was disabled in some areas by July, and it seems that it may be out of the hands of both valve and PayPal.
“In early July 2025, PayPal informed the valve that the pursuit of payments in some currencies was immediately eliminating the processing of any bank steam transaction,” Valve writes in the steam support page. “This affects the purchase of steam using PayPal in currencies In addition Euro, CAD, GBP, JPY, Aud and USD. “
In a statement Rock paper shotgunValve also made it clear that the decision to withdraw support for steam transactions through bank PayPal was “made about the content on steam, related to what we have already commented on about the mastercard.” Choosing to end steam transactions means that PayPal had to disable as a payment method for several currencies.
Enjet has contacted Valle and Paypal for more information, which has the effect of this, and what other payment options will be available to them. If we listen back, we will update this article.
Valve says he wants to pay PayPal payments to these unmarked currencies in the future, “but the timeline is uncertain.” What seems to be clear, based on the deliberate association of the valve, it is that the problem of PayPal is part of the ongoing censorship war on steam and itching.
In July, multiple sports were divided by steam as they failed to meet new guidelines that require sports according to the standards and policies of payment processors. Because there were no NSFW games, they were removed. Valve told later Quotau This mastercard primarily forced him to remove the games by threatening the payment processor. And the mastercard was allegedly pressured to do the first place, conservative workers who raised the issue of some sexually clear sports on the steam.
In this case, a bank that works with PayPal is a weak link rather than a steam or payment network, but it is fully possible that getting a bank is responding to similar pressure.
