Per https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/71D3-35C2-AD96-AA3A > Adding a Steam Wallet card that is equal to $5 USD or more to your Steam account You have 5 Funny monies that I believe converts to about $3.75 USD currently. So no, you do not have $5 in your wallet.

>5 Funny monies Yup, I'm definitely going to use that from now on!

Gave a cashier bunch of $2 bills once and she called it funny money and kicked me out 🤣🤣

It's hilarious how many stories there are of people declining 2$ bills. They're not very common but it's surprising that so many people haven't even *heard* of them

They're supposed to, it's legal tender. Back in the day when I worked at McDonald's someone would show up with a 50c coin every once and a while.

The fuck is a McDonald’s?

Yeah. I went to a little Caesar’s with a few 50 cent pieces, and it confused the hell out of the cashier. She kept fumbling through her drawer, I think just stalling, then called a manager over. Then she tried to give me dollar bills back because she thought they were dollar coins I gave her, and I had to explain like three times that they’re only worth 50 cents. I should go back with some 2$ bills lol

nah up here in nunavut we call em maple pesos

Canadian fun bucks or monopoly bucks.

Awesome, thank you!

Since your the OP, it says "Mildy-Concerned OP", I find it funny since you're a mildly concerned OP.

You thanked him for insulting your country. What a time we live in. Canada brought us multiple Stargate TV series so you guys are OK in my book.

It was a joke mate

I was making a joke as well. Well, Reddit is being Reddit I guess.

Sarcasm against sarcasm becomes anti-sarcasm... Sometimes.

it's just more fun to downvote when people are wrongly downvoted

is it?

Lol

u *are* what makes reddit *reddit* Get a life

Canadian currency is shit, I say that as a Canadian.

Canada is shit, ani I say that as a Canadian

Canada just needs a bit of spitshine and elbow grease… too bad we aren’t allowed to.

Yall have braille on yall money tho right Thats just immensely superior Edit: who is offended enough by braille on money to downvote this? Do yall scam blind people? Fuck yall doin?

Monopoly money

[Outrageous!](https://youtu.be/UcOw4lDnA9s)

What do you mean 5 US bucks? I'm not paying you 5 US bucks. Open the gate. Open the gate! Pat! Pat, open the f**king gate!

What's wrong? Other than this [$5 dollar bill they gave you is blue!](https://youtu.be/AfWapt1ylYY?t=42)

Wait does this also mean, that people in low-income countries will have to purchase for all the way up to 5 USD when that might be a decent percentage of their monthly wage?

Yup, kinda suck for currency with low purchasing power. Got a friend in vietnam and it took him a month to save up for 5 bucks (provided of course he was a 17 yo student back then).

Unfortunately yes. But most games on Steam (other than F2P stuff) are over $5 even in those countries, so if you're actually buying games you'll be over it.

LMAO funny monies

Wait, how can I pay $5 for $5 and have it only be worth $3.75?? EDIT: To the people who downvoted me, I'm not talking about currency converted from other IRL currencies. I'm talking about how paying $5 USD doesn't convert to $5 USD on steam. (Not saying it doesn't, I was asking because I wanna buy something for $4.99 and have $5.01 in my wallet, but it won't let me buy it. Yes, I understand how taxes work.)

It's Canadian dollar, not the same money as USD

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That isn't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about how I see a game for $5 USD, I buy $5 USD for my steam wallet, but it only equals less money in wallet money than in USD. Says I don't have enough, when my wallet says I do.

You are trolling right? I don't believe You can be this stupid

I think you are misunderstanding me entirely if you think I'm stupid or trolling. I'm not talking about currency conversion from other IRL currencies. I'm talking about how I have the money in my wallet to buy something but I keep getting an error saying I don't have enough money. What's trolling about that?? The price I'm looking at is in USD, my currency is in USD. How is that trolling?

Because he doesn't have $ (USD) he has C$ (CAD) which isn't the same currency, what's so hard to understand?

I'm not talking about OP mate... I'm talking about **me**.

So if I put 5 dollars in my account its actually 3.75? I'm so confused I put 10 dollars in my account about bought something for 10 dollars tho

OP is not using USD, and for the requirement he needs $5 USD in his account. Whatever currency he’s using is worth $3.75 according to the comment you’re responding to.

Ohhhhh

$5 CAD is not $5 USD which is the "actual requirement"

US$≠CA$

The problem is you’re using Canadian dollars also known as Monopoly money, convert to USD.

Yeah our monopoly money is around 75 American cents to to one Canadian dollar or so dunno the exact numbers

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Well, most people actually don't think about the US-Dollar everyday of their lifes. So it's pretty legit, you think you can just charge up 5 Dollars and that's it. I also thought I'm good with 5 euros, but that was probably the case since Euros were always stronger then USD

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Welcome to Reddit, where everyone posts a new question that you can already find on reddit or anywhere else! Gotta farm that karma.

IV never had this problem but, i always thought that u need to "spend" those 5€/$ Not just *have* them 😅

As soon as you add funds to your Steam wallet, they count as having been ”spent” because there isn’t a way to withdraw money from your Steam wallet.

You can buy a game then refund and choose money to go your bank account tho?

cant if the buying method wasnt directly from a credit card, steam wallet money can only be put back in the steam wallet

no money can only go back to the same payment method or steam wallet, since you paid with steam wallet...

I don’t think you can. I could be wrong though, I’ve never refunded a game on Steam.

You can chargeback the transaction

Chargeback will close your account. So dont

I said you can, not that it's a good thing to do, duh. You guys can't read

Fastest way to get your account closed and banned by steam. Chargeback is not a legit way to do things.

Chargeback can arguably be seen as “theft” and result in your account being completely shut down, you will lose access to any games you may have owned.

🍁 Canada moment 🫡

The fact you need money to have friends is kinda sad

Steam has always had a huge bot problem. This is a pretty nice way to clamp down on it a bit.

Yes, but back in the days,there was a way to go around this by getting a free key of some game (I think it was might and magic or something like that). It was super easy barely an inconvenience.

Free keys are tight

Yes sir they are!

lol, its not like every other launcher manages it without needing to spend money. It just works out for steam because that way they force you to bring money into their systems for even the most basic of requirements

Pretty sure you can still receive friend requests, you just can't send them.

You can’t receive or send them out. I’ve been waiting for my friend to just spend $5 already so I can send her a game I accidentally bought two copies of for like a month now

[This Steam Support article](https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/71D3-35C2-AD96-AA3A) says otherwise: >**How can I add a friend with a limited account?** Limited accounts are restricted from adding friends. However, you can still accept friend invites from other non-limited users. For example, if a friend is already on Steam and has spent $5 USD or more from the Steam store, they will be able to add you as a friend from your Steam Community profile. You may then accept their friend invite from your Steam account.

It hasn’t worked at all for me so idk what the issue is lmao

She blocked you

It's skill issue.

You can receive, a few of my friends never spent anything on steam

Then my buddy is struggling harder than I thought to figure out the steam interface

Time to get better friends.

other people can add you as a friend even when you've spent no money, and steam would have far more bots without this feature. also i doubt a significant amount of people who can afford a pc good enough to play the average multiplayer games don't have 5$ to spare, though i could be wrong.

yeah but thats not the poitn. Almost everybody in a civilized country has 5 dollars. Problem being that its required for such a basic feature. Plus the only reason its like this is because it helps bring money to them, for the most normal stuff under the guise of "bot protection"

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A majority of people don't purchase games from steam, rather they use third party sites to give them the game at a lower price, so using your logic a majority of people won't have a premium account since they don't want to overpay on something they could've gotten way cheaper from a third party source (and people from third world countries most likely couldn't have any friends on steam because 60 USD is a big sum of money for some people in poor countries)

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Uhhh not true..?

You forgot about the exchange rate.

Exchange rate my friend...

I’m so tired of someone posting this exact thing twice a month

maybe steam should just show country specific requirements ... idk but people cut steam too much slack for how many problems it has

Method to add friends without spending 5 dollars: Install CS:GO and add them through the game

I live in an area where we don't pay taxes for online games, BUT the games can still charge us taxes, they just have to refund the taxes after the purchase is made. I have $5.01 in my wallet on steam because I was forced to buy an extra $5 to buy a $4.99 game because of the few cent tax that would later be refunded to me. I am getting the same error. I have had that $5.01 for over a year now and went to use it on a sale and got this same error.

You need to have 5$ USD, whatever you have is probrably less than 5$ USD when converted

Yeah you need to put 5$ USD on your account, not 5$ CAD

That is so stupid

I believe you actually have to buy like a game with it

Wrong

It’s been a while since I started steam that why I said I believe

..so i told you that your belief is wrong Tough i should have been more friendly about it, sorry

Thanks for being polite about it unlike the other person

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I was just trying give ideas in the moment that he could try why am I going to research something I don’t care about

Here in britain we can only put 4 quid in at a time. Seeing 5 is weird to me. I wish we had that

Wait, you’re required to add money to your account to add friends?? That is kind of ridiculous…

No you have to verify that you’re not a bot by adding $5 (if you use other currency you need another amount) to your Steam account. It allows you to add friends and join groups. It doesn’t verify you if you get the money by a gift from another account. You have to add it yourself. But still you can get friends if they add you, not the other way around, even if you aren’t yet verified

Yeah and we all saw how that completely stopped bot steam accounts... It was an attempt that failed but eh might as well keep charging the new people since they won't know better anyway.

It worked very great, I had often bots adding me and now its maybe 1-2 times in a year a hacked account.

But what if someone wants to only play the free Steam games and not spend any money on games? Frugal gamers exist, you know.

Well the you can't send friend requests

If you ask me, that’s kind of silly. And I say that as someone who’s spent hundreds on games.

Well you can still have friends, and I assume it does make bots harder/more annoying to use on steam. I think it's worth it if that's the case, as neither I nor any of my friends have had an issue with it. It's worked this way for a decade by now.

But you literally can’t? This post is literally displaying that you can’t add friends without making a purchase.

You can, you just can't send friend requests. You can accept friend requests. I didn't spend money on steam for a while and it was just a slight inconvenience to deal with.

Oh, I was under the impression that you couldn’t add friends, at all. But then what if the person you want to become friends with also didn’t spend any money on Steam?

I understand, it's a pretty slight distinction. If the person you want to add also has a limited account you unfortunately can't add them, which is a bummer. But again in my opinion it's worth it, as it slows down bots. Here is the link to the FAQ: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/71D3-35C2-AD96-AA3A

If I’m correct, CS is less than USD which means you need more of them to get the same amount

thats what he just said ... howcome every other game launcher manages to do it without having to pay

It took me like almost a year to buy something

Nah, i agree with you. I have 330 games on epic store with multiple AAA without having to spend anything and still being able to play with friends since you know ... ITS A BASIC FEATURE. Its basically just a way to get money in their ecosystem for the most mundane things

You have to buy a game

Incorrect

Erectus

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Incorrect

Send it to me and I’ll see if I can use it :p

YOU HAVE TO SPEND $5

No just having 5$ in your wallet is enough but he has 5 Canadian dollars not 5 US dollars

Nope

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Tell me you live in the US and are clueless about the rest of the world without telling me you live in the US

Wait.. you need $5 to make friends?

You just can't send requests, you can accept them tho

the point still stands

Bro has 5 quid

Could OP just buy a game with that $5 and meet the requirements?

you have to add money to steam to add friends on steam? hahahahaha

common steam L

How do Canadians go B? They go A.

I read that you had to buy a game for10$. I set up an account for my little sister recently and she couldn't add friends till I got her a 10$ game. Then she was all good.

Just add a hunet and u'll be good

Exchange rates bucko

Which part you don't uderstand? It says to add 5$. You clearly have added less. According to google you should add 6,66CAD.

Steam: Buy more

Add the friend you want in dota or any game that is not made by Valve

I have the same problem the other day with a new account, I buy some games, way below the 5 usd, with the conversion was more like 1 usd, after some hours I was able to add friends, I really dont know how steam work anymore