bank account to work with steam?

[daimaku]

hello, i'm an indie game developer, i need to publish my game on steam (i don't want to get a publisher because i was scammed already by one with my first title) and i'm looking for info to do that by myself.

so far i have talked with steam and they told me that i need a bank account to receive the money from the sales of the game, i have already a bank account here on my country (venezuela) but the bank of my country can't receive u.s. dollars.

i need to find a workaround for this, a vba account enabled to be funded with wire transfer or a way to open a bank account in u.s. dollars without the need to go into the bank because i can't travel to another country right now.

any help, tip or suggestion will be very useful.

thanks in advance.

 

[weiwuri]

Hello, I've been on steam from long, pm me or add me on steam id: gearMEup

 

[MonteCarlos]

0-0 and a $hit-face...Lucky you!

 

[SuppWhitey]

Have you tried signing up for payoneer ? they do give US VBA

 

[daimaku]

Have you tried signing up for payoneer ? they do give US VBA

yes, i already have a payoneer account, but i have talked with steam, they pay via wire transfer and payoneer can only receive ach tranfers, after this i went to the payoneer website to confirm this situation and i talked with an agent on the payoneer customer support via online chat and she told me the payoneer account can't receive wire transfer.

 

[SuppWhitey]

yes, i already have a payoneer account, but i have talked with steam, they pay via wire transfer and payoneer can only receive ach tranfers, after this i went to the payoneer website to confirm this situation and i talked with an agent on the payoneer customer support via online chat and she told me the payoneer account can't receive wire transfer.

try to contact your local bank account, I don't see a reason why they wouldn't accept international bank transfer,look for a way to accept it locally

 

[Billsama]

Hi daimaku,

I found this post because I was also looking for information about this. I'm a developer from Venezuela and I have a couple of games published on itch.io and gamejolt. I would like to publish them on steam too, but so far it seems there is no way for us in Venezuela to do that using our local bank account. Did you find a way to do it using Payoneer, Paypal or any other way? I'd appreciate any info you could share about it. Thanks!

 

[daimaku]

Hi daimaku,

I found this post because I was also looking for information about this. I'm a developer from Venezuela and I have a couple of games published on itch.io and gamejolt. I would like to publish them on steam too, but so far it seems there is no way for us in Venezuela to do that using our local bank account. Did you find a way to do it using Payoneer, Paypal or any other way? I'd appreciate any info you could share about it. Thanks!

i didn't found any way to sell games on steam from venezuela, payoneer can't receive wire transfers.

the only way to do this is trusting in a friend from other country; very risky situation, we are in venezuela and seems we all have a big poster up our head saying, please scam us (happened to me we two game publishers)

 

[Ali008]

Try transferwise.

 

[its4thecolony]

Maybe i missed something, and i apologize if i do, but does paypal not work?

 

[hororbishke]

You can try epayments, transferwise, transfermate, mistertango, leupay. They all provide dedicated IBAN and accept wire transfers.

 

[Darkvador007]

Transferwise give u.s. account