Okay so this idea came to me randomly today. Personally I don't have a paypal because I don't need one and a lot of other players on TB, including younger players, don't have access to paypal either. I've also seen cases where players from other countries didn't have paypal where they were from and couldn't make transactions to buy things that required it.

BUT! There is one form of payment that everyone has access to, Steam. So this is the idea I had to make it both safer and easier for money transactions on Toribash. Put a few new items in the store labeled as such.

-$1 Ticket
-$5 Ticket
-$10 Ticket
-$25 Ticket
-$50 Ticket

Now you're probably asking why we're adding these items, well its simple. Currently with the torishop players have the option to pay for things through steam, you can use your steam wallet to purchase things on toribash from the store only. There is also no transaction fee to move funds like this, so players won't be losing money every time they send someone money for something. With these tickets players could also send them to admins for things such as this. This basically gives younger kids and people without access to paypal a way to get money into the game and purchase things with it that they couldn't afford by earning TC.

P.S. By forcing the currency of trade from paypal back to in-game money you make it less possible for people to scam TC, sell it via paypal, and then disappear with admins only being able to ban the account that they didn't care about anyways.

Also for any concerts about hackers getting into your account and taking your tickets then refer to this thread.

Yeah, Nagato is right.

But nonetheless, this would make buying tc from other players so much more useful.

I'm all in favor of this.

While in most situations you would be right, its in the game owner's best interest not to implement this in order to make more money their self, but in a situation where you're running a small game like toribash that is slowly dying in popularity you need to take all the measures you can to keep your players here. There's still the direct purchase of items/subscriptions/boosters for them to make plenty money off of.

But people already pay for stuff with Steam Money anyway. For buying TC it's just a lower rate than PayPal.

SrCheetah, yes kids are vulnerable to that, but you're forgetting something. Its their parents' credit card. The one's responsible for it is the parents, so if the don't ask they child "what is it you're trying to get", then its their fault.

When I was growing up and I wanted to use my moms' credit card I had to explain to her, what it was I was getting, why I needed it, etc... Its not like she was being stingy either, she was just making sure I knew what I was doing and that I actually wanted it. Then after that I would pay her in cash from my money for the purchase I made. So don't play the "they don't know any better" card here, the only ones that don't know better are the parents if the kid gets scammed.

My real problem here is that this is all done through steam. Oftentimes people make USD transactions because they want to use whatever they make here to make their real life easier. However, there isn't a system to take money off of steam, so it's a little counter-intuitive. Sure, it's a good option for children to start experimenting with our economy and all, but will anyone asking for USD actually want to take these Steam$ items? I'm skeptical.

Thats more of a personal issue, games aren't meant to be a form of income in the first place. There are instances of people being able to gain decent in-come off some games, but thats just due to their own luck and skill. When playing a game you should already be in the mentality that once you spend money on the game its gone, not "I can earn it back later". Remember that a games soul purpose is entertainment, if you want to make money then you should be working a job, not playing a game. Want the best of both worlds? Then go stream or do youtube with your games, simple as that.