No smartphone. How do I trade without a hold?

[SilvShepard]

I am really disliking this new feature that Valve has added recently. I personally don't have a smartphone. I don't have enough money to buy one (and I have no income), so I don't plan to buy one in the near future. However, I'm experiencing problems with trading. A 3-day trade hold has been enforced on anyone not using the Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator thing, but I obviously cannot get it. Is there any way to bypass this restriction, or am I pretty much stuck with the hold indefinitely until I am able to buy a smartphone? If anyone knows anything, it'd be a great help! Thanks!

[Alex Jones]

i think u can download a emulator "BlueStacks App Player" then when you setup steam guard auth use one of your familtys phonenumber and it should work have not tested it tho

[Quâponix]

Originally posted by ☆WatchYourBack☆:

i think u can download a emulator "BlueStacks App Player" then when you setup steam guard auth use one of your familtys phonenumber and it should work have not tested it tho

this is a nice idea for those who dont have a phone and dont want this trade holds, but still this feature sucks hard! i dont say that the steam app sucks, but the aspect that valve forces our community to use mobile phones for authentication is a big negative point!
#freetradeholds

[MordredMS 鬱賢]

You're not alone in your pain, OP. Some of us DO have smartphones, but are in your exact same condition because we have a Windows Phone, and Valve, for some reason, refuses to release a WP version of the Steam app.

[SilvShepard]

Haha, thanks for the advice. Yeah, wish Valve would just free the trade holds. I get that they're just trying to encourage us to use the Steam Mobile Guard Authenticator, but for those of us who can't even access it, it's kinda hurting us.

[Sludge Metal Mike]

Originally posted by SCP:

Haha, thanks for the advice. Yeah, wish Valve would just free the trade holds. I get that they're just trying to encourage us to use the Steam Mobile Guard Authenticator, but for those of us who can't even access it, it's kinda hurting us.

its about security

http://store.steampowered.com/news/19618/

[SilvShepard]

Originally posted by Sludge Metal Mike:

Originally posted by SCP:

Haha, thanks for the advice. Yeah, wish Valve would just free the trade holds. I get that they're just trying to encourage us to use the Steam Mobile Guard Authenticator, but for those of us who can't even access it, it's kinda hurting us.

its about security

http://store.steampowered.com/news/19618/

Yeah, I know. But still, it severely inconveniences those who can't even get it in the first place. Valve's decision to exclude Windows phones and other platforms when trying to force us to get it is quite annoying, in my opinion. As someone who doesn't even own a smartphone, I have no choice whatsoever but to live with the trade hold indefinitely.

[LoKi_MoKi™#OverWatchNoobs]

qq ;D

[d7p]

That's what they call a damn respect for their customers. They don't care if you use Windows phone.

[Sludge Metal Mike]

Originally posted by SCP:

Originally posted by Sludge Metal Mike:

its about security

http://store.steampowered.com/news/19618/

Yeah, I know. But still, it severely inconveniences those who can't even get it in the first place. Valve's decision to exclude Windows phones and other platforms when trying to force us to get it is quite annoying, in my opinion. As someone who doesn't even own a smartphone, I have no choice whatsoever but to live with the trade hold indefinitely.

It's only 3 days and the rest of the trading community is working with it just fine

Originally posted by darkpastor:

That's what they call a damn respect for their customers. They don't care if you use Windows phone.

What about the poor blackberry users and starving Afrian children?
seriously, get over it, they will get to the app when they can, its always better to start something like this on popular devices first. And then when they make if for windows phone users you will cry about the colour not matching or some other little thing

[KokainKater]

At the moment you cant :(

[PermaBaked]

Having same problems, sigh volvo :(

[banned]

gg volvo

[SilvShepard]

Originally posted by Sludge Metal Mike:

Originally posted by SCP:

Yeah, I know. But still, it severely inconveniences those who can't even get it in the first place. Valve's decision to exclude Windows phones and other platforms when trying to force us to get it is quite annoying, in my opinion. As someone who doesn't even own a smartphone, I have no choice whatsoever but to live with the trade hold indefinitely.

It's only 3 days and the rest of the trading community is working with it just fine

Originally posted by darkpastor:

That's what they call a damn respect for their customers. They don't care if you use Windows phone.

What about the poor blackberry users and starving Afrian children?
seriously, get over it, they will get to the app when they can, its always better to start something like this on popular devices first. And then when they make if for windows phone users you will cry about the colour not matching or some other little thing

Not sure if you realize this, but with the trading card event going on right now, this can be pretty bad for us who want to trade cards with friends and such. Because of the restriction, we'll basically be forced to end our trading 3 days earlier. I understand the rationale of Valve's decision, but I think they should do more to accomodate those of us who can't abide by their policies, even when we want to. I checked the link you sent, and I found this:
"We felt that two-factor authentication was secure enough that it would protect anyone who enabled it, so the problem was the accounts that couldn't enable it (e.g. no mobile phone access). In the end, we arrived at the changes we're deploying today...
This means that anyone using the Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator to confirm trades is able to continue trading as always. Users who haven't enabled it, or can't, can still trade, but they'll have to wait up to 3 days for the trade to go through."
Valve addressed the issue, but did not resolve it in a manner that works best for everyone, in my opinion. It is, in essence, punishing those who don't use Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator. I just hope that they are able to find a way to make it more accessible on other platforms, rather than limiting it to Android and iOS phones. Making it more accessible on tablets, for example, would fulfill their purpose (being harder to hack since it's not a PC), as well as accomodating more people who don't have access to a mobile phone.

[SeitoD]

Originally posted by ☆WatchYourBack☆:

i think u can download a emulator "BlueStacks App Player" then when you setup steam guard auth use one of your familtys phonenumber and it should work have not tested it tho

That doesn't work. already tried

[MordredMS 鬱賢]

Originally posted by Billy Mays:

Originally posted by ☆WatchYourBack☆:

i think u can download a emulator "BlueStacks App Player" then when you setup steam guard auth use one of your familtys phonenumber and it should work have not tested it tho

That doesn't work. already tried

Damn, I was just about to install that. :/