Steam Escrow - new steam trading feature that could kill bot trading

[The Murderous Cop]

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/trade_tf#announcements/detail/38640603424492664

'What is Escrow?', After a trade has been accepted by both parties, if either party's account has not been secured by the Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator, then to protect against unauthorized trades, the traded items will be placed in escrow. During the escrow period, the items will not be available to either user. This allows users who have not secured their accounts to cancel any unauthorized trades and recover their items. Canceling all pending and in-escrow trades will place a trading hold on your account for a few days to prevent any further unauthorized attempts to trade away items.

When it gets released, it could mean the end of bot trading services too.

petition this garbage

posted in the TF2 thread but i doubt it'll get too much attention there

i didnt know whether or not to put this in games, but it's more or less on the service so i just put it here
if not i'll wait for it to be moved or something
why the forget would you do this stuff, steam
do you not like bots or something? this is why people disliked the whole 'email verification' bullstuff too
and now you're forcing people to use this
what if someone doesn't have a phone that can do this
do you just want to ruin trading for them

ugh

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[SeventhSandwich]

Nah, this should go through. It simulates the experience of creating a market and having it forgeted up by someone in an authority position. Very useful lesson for real life.

[The Murderous Cop]

Nah, this should go through. It simulates the experience of creating a market and having it forgeted up by someone in an authority position. Very useful lesson for real life.

i'm not downvoting you here/saying you're wrong but why?? i don't see how this is a lesson for real life
i'm serious educate me here because i'm confused

[jonnyman5656]

Nah, this should go through. It simulates the experience of creating a market and having it forgeted up by someone in an authority position. Very useful lesson for real life.

ah yes, lets forget up something even worse

anyway, remember paid mods?

[The Murderous Cop]

anyway, remember paid mods?

do not remind me of that forgetfest
it went downhill immediately

[Johnny Blockhead]

i'm not downvoting you here/saying you're wrong but why?? i don't see how this is a lesson for real life
i'm serious educate me here because i'm confused

It's a joke.

[The Murderous Cop]

It's a joke.

wow i'm a idiot
probably because it's late and i need to sleep

[Maxx°]

i think steam could give less of a flying forget about petitions, they don't stop people from doing anything
its just a spewage of random opinions toward something that nobody has any control over

[otto-san]

what are bot trading services

it's probably something well-known but i don't deal with steam economy nonsense so can someone explain exactly what they are? do they just automatically put things up on the market?

because at this point the only problem this seems to have to me is that it's forcing you to use mobile authentication, otherwise it seems like a great countermeasure to hacked accounts trading everything away to funnel those tasty vintage bonk helmets to the black market

[Ravencroft·]

I didn't even know steam had trading. Wtf are u supposed to trade?

[TheABELBOTO]

what are bot trading services

it's probably something well-known but i don't deal with steam economy nonsense so can someone explain exactly what they are? do they just automatically put things up on the market?

Basically it's a bot that trades stuff so you don't have to use the community market/look for someone with what you're looking for and get scammed.

I didn't even know steam had trading. Wtf are u supposed to trade?

Stuff you'd normally would get from micro transactions and if you're smart it's the only thing you do to get what you want.

[ThatDarkNinja778]

I didn't even know steam had trading. Wtf are u supposed to trade?

Items, Trading cards, games, you know the usual.

[Stick Man]

I didn't even know steam had trading. Wtf are u supposed to trade?

1000$ skins for weapons in a virtual game.

It's as dumb and easily scammable as it sounds.

[Blocky943]

why the forget would you do this stuff, steam
do you not like bots or something?

are you actually handicapped? of course they don't like bots. that's why they're loving doing it. are you a scammer? is that why you're complaining? you can't scam anymore? oh, right, trading bots.

[sir dooble]

Basically it's a bot that trades stuff so you don't have to use the community market/look for someone with what you're looking for and get scammed.

Are you not likely to get scammed by a bot?

I admit, I don't really trade things in Steam, except to friends.