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Team Fortress 2 Megatopic + Trade: SCREAM FORTRESS? MORE LIKE JUNGLE INFERNO!
Landmineman4000²:
--- Quote from: ZERØ on March 05, 2016, 12:43:46 AM ---What the forget Valve, now community market stuff will be put in escrow, really? This is a load of bullstuff they are really trying to force people to use the damn app.
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"You will have a 3 year hold time when you buy a game from the store unless you use our app, holy stuff please use our app we're begging you!"
Ninja Decoy:
--- Quote from: ZERØ on March 05, 2016, 12:43:46 AM ---What the forget Valve, now community market stuff will be put in escrow, really? This is a load of bullstuff they are really trying to force people to use the damn app.
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Or maybe its because they get so many damn complaints about phishers and scammers that they decided to say forget off and this is their solution. Maybe if there weren't so many dumb asses this wouldn't have happened.
Tudoreleu:
gullible people who falls for scams have been the source of many a problem on steam
escrow, the removal of /me, ...
MoltenKitten:
We should have a test when signing up for steam to see if you are dumb enough to tall for that crap. If you fail you can't trade.
Regulith:
My account has been in serious danger of being hijacked 2 times in the last several months without any interaction with phishers or malicious websites. People are quick to give the "well you won't have any problems if you're just not stupid" speech (as did I many years ago) but the truth is that sometimes even the most security-conscious people get screwed by a series of unfortunate events. Maybe my password was too similar to another that was leaked when a website had its security compromised, or maybe there was malware that I still haven't discovered in a downloaded file that looked completely safe. I can't be sure. You can call that "stupid" if you like, but I consider myself very careful about suspicious internet things to the point that it might be considered paranoia, so all of my actions were taken with utmost caution.
The point is, if I had not had mobile authentication I might have been in serious trouble. I'm not sure if they had access to my email or not, but I feel infinitely safer holding the key to my account in my hands rather than having it sit in an email server. I'm truly sorry that those of you without the means to use the mobile Steam application have to suffer a two week trading "penalty", especially because I've been in similar positions in the past, but Steam can't forfeit higher account security just because some people aren't up to date with technology. Smart phones have been commonplace for around 10 years now; I know that doesn't mean anything to people who can't afford one or can't obtain one because of other circumstances, but the rest of the world is moving on. It's a 15 day wait for virtual items, you'll live. Get a long-time friend to get the item for you and you'll only have to wait a week for it to be tradable and an extra day for the trade to go through.
The one exception is people with Windows phones who apparently can't run the application, that's something that Steam should have taken care of before announcing this new policy and you have every right to be upset about it.