

If you want to understand better I recommend watching this video that pretty much summarizes the whole problem. This isn't true for all of the games, but that isn't relevant right now. It must be said that when the game is on sale it can reach an amount as low as 5.93 USD $ in Turkey.Ģ Weeks ago or so the country with the lowest prices was Argentina but now it's Turkey due to a recent drop on the currency value brought by the economic crisis. That's impressive and certainly something that a lot people with the knowledge, manage to use and make a profit. In Argentina is 10.82 USD $ and in Turkey is 7.91 USD $. You can check this very easily and to give an example: New World Right now the country with the lowest prices in games and in-game items is Turkey. This was possible from an account with USD currency to a Turkish account, as some people here in this post may know. The transaction, and finally the money received and converted to the proper currency: Here. First of all, let's look at my purchase history. Now I'll be sharing proof that I bypassed this issue less than 4 days ago. Since there's not much more that I can say or do to be of help with this particular issue, I am going to close this help request.Īll the answers I receive are the same but in different words so there's no need to share them. Since, we have provided all the available information in our previous message. However, we don’t have any information about how to resolve the issue but I'm forwarding your comments and feedback on to the appropriate department. One clear example is here: We are aware of the problem and are investigating the issue further.

I am a normal user and this is an assumption based on all the messages I've received from the support. The problem itself seems to be a currency exchange lock that wasn't intended by Valve, I don't work with them. Don't get your hopes up because it's more of one shot in a million, but at least it's proof that they are working on fixing this issue. However, at the time of writing, I managed to bypass this after more than 20 different strategies. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance." All the people I know is unable to send a digital gift card to a friend or alt account from another country ( Edit: I am only referring to Argentina and Turkey, thanks to the OP for pointing this out). "There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. I am here to explain based on my experiences through the years, if you don't want to read entirely skip to the TL DR.Įveryone here is probably getting the same error. Valve is not tired of people abusing this system or using it legitimately, because in the end they aren't losing money.
