A new way to acquire games in a popular Steam store is offered by the Russian telecommunications operator "MTS" and its corporate bank.

Against the background of limiting the work of Western payment systems in Russia, Visa, MasterCard, Paypal, American Express, Western Union temporarily left it.

In fact, the main payment methods for Western online stores. Moreover, some Russian banks fell under American full blocking SDN-sanctions, and some disconnected from the SWIFT system. Their cards stopped working with any payment systems.

A few weeks later, Western platforms work with Russia very differently. For example, the EPIC Store through the XSOLLA payment service quietly serves Russian bank cards not under sanctions, accepts payments through Yoomoney and QIWI:

PlayStation Store also softened the restrictions on the unaware or intentionally, which we will dedicate a separate publication.

But Steam refers to the Russians extremely strictly. Although all services allow you to play for previously purchased games, many have collided with the cancellation of pre-orders, and Steam blocked the withdrawal with developers and any payment methods to Russia, except for a personal gaming wallet.

It can be replenished, asking it to make friends from another country, for example, through a bank card or PayPal.

However, another way to bypass STEAM restrictions appeared. To do this, in the QiWi wallet, you need to open a sub-account in Kazakh tenge, translate its funds there (the Commission is not charged), and then from the account in Tenge to transfer the payment to its Steam wallet in the payment section on the Steam (Kazakhstan) agent.

A similar way to Russia is going to import spare parts and western techniques, through re-exports from the nearest countries. At the same time, such a method through QIWI gamer will cost 12-16% of the commission for the purchase price, which is not so little.

Here, MTS-Bank appeared, offering subscribers of its MTS operator, which use the Bank's services, the service of replenishing the wallet in Steam with an even higher commission.

Technologically, the operation also represents a repeated conversion on the side of the provider. The same instant replenishment will bring a 1% cachek player, but the Commission will cost 22% of the payment amount, which is a profit for the bank.

This way of the wallet in Steam can be replenished through the MTS Bank application or the MTS Money Service. Customers of the Bank and the MTS operator can take advantage of the service.

Next, the process is not much different from QIWI, you also need to specify the active login in Steam when making a payment to the store address. As a result, the inner gaming wallet will be replenished, which by default becomes the form of payment for new purchases. When a lack of funds on the wallet in another way for users from Russia to pay the order in Steam is unlikely to succeed.

Another way to purchase a Steam key is a service from the 1C Entertainment store, which is actively working on the European market. It sells Steam activation keys in digital format and physical boxes including. Here, the commission for purchase is not provided, because The price already includes an intermediary profits.

In 1c remind that the digital key return is not provided, so it is worth thinking well before buying or waiting for the weakening of restrictions.

Is that at the end of March - early April, many Western stores spend the sales, offering discounts at 40-70% for old catalog projects, so the savings will succeed, unless to overpay for the commissions.

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