Hi I have some bad news:
It appears that Steam no longer sells Steam Wallet (gift card) codes online to be given to someone else. During the first CW contest, there was an option in Steam stores to send Steam wallet codes to other people. But it's now gone and now the only way to buy a gift card for someone else is to go to a physical Gamestop store or order one on Amazon to be shipped at your home.
Not only that, but they now only provide fixed amounts of $20, 50, 100, no custom ones. Since CodeWalrus has a policy of only offering digital prizes for contests (it is done for safety reasons, as parents and Internet don't mix) a physical gift card wouldn't have been an option anyway.
As a result, despite the CodeWalrus Contest II announcement including Steam in the type of gift cards that winners can choose from, we will not be able to fullfil that request and thus, the winner or runner up will have to choose a different store.
There is, however, a workaround that can allow a contest winner or runner-up to still get Steam stuff from the contest prize: We can simply buy you games for a total of what the contest prize is worth for (eg CAD$30 or $70 worth of games). But then you would need to choose which games you want for that total then I buy them. But that's a lot of hassle because your Steam store is American while mine shows prices in Canadian dollars, so I guess choosing a different store such as Amazon is recommended.
In the past, iTunes also had many annoyances: For example, in some countries you were forced to enter a credit card number in order to redeem an iTunes gift card.
I doubt this is a serious issue for contestants, especially
@c4ooo 's prize which was a different store and was sent a few minutes ago) but I'm bringing this up to public for the sake of transparency, since this involves the removal of one of the choice of contest prizes after the winners have been declared and we apologize for the inconveniences, in particular to the one affected (
@Unicorn ). We also feel that it's a very dumb move from Steam, as we are now in 2016, not 2006. (Aren't digital gift cards the successor of plastic cards, much like how plastic cards were the successor of gift certificates?)
Source:
https://store.steampowered.com/account/redeemwalletcode
