Kinda sucks for me, as I’ve almost exclusively used gift cards for the last few years. I get a bonus tax-free credit card by my employer, which I can only use at retail stores. So those were a great way for me to use that card to buy games. It was also a good option for people who wanted to avoid payment providers like Visa/Mastercard etc. Oh well.
This isn’t the first time a company has canceled doing gift cards cause of this problem. It wouldn’t even be weird to watch the entire concept of gift cards die off due to this problem.
Hell Iv seen major stores flat out stop selling gift cards. Or require really absurd shit like 3 day wait periods to buy them. To try to combat the issue.
Where I live, gift cards are still very widely available.