widomakr 20/ago./2022 às 16:54
Trading is a JOKE
Let me start... I setup a new account for my son for us to play TF2 together... and after adding his as a 'friend' we were not able to trade due to his account being so new... Really?!?

ok... we tried many times and waited the required 14 days for the trade to go through after agreeing to many warnings... only to have the trade cancelled around 10 days later...

We continued to play together and I gifted him a few games to play and after around 6 months of dealing with this... We tried a trade again... and again it was denied... after 6 months and playing many games together I wouldnt consider his account 'new' but ok...

Reading into things... I found that he needed to spend 5 dollars on something to be taken off the 'restricted' account status... ok... went out today and bought a 20 Steam card and added it to his account... for which he wanted to buy some items on the TF2 market... Nope... you added/bought something within the past 7 days... you account is still 'limited'... WTF... Steam... you have to be kidding me with this security BS...

And to add insult... I tried to trade with my own son again... and because I am not using steam's mobile authentication App... I will have to wait 14 days to make a trade...

Steam... WTF... you have pissed off one of your customers that has been here for 10+ years with this BS... I understand a validation email... I understand security, since I have been working in IT for 20+ years... I was in the military for 10 years... but this BS that you call security has gone well beyond reason...

Please... take about 30 steps back off that cliff that you already walked off and make things reasonable...
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lavalobster93 20/ago./2022 às 17:05 
ok sure, make it reasonable for scammers to have things made easier for themselves, okay
Última edição por lavalobster93; 20/ago./2022 às 17:05
ShelLuser 20/ago./2022 às 17:22 
OP... none of these annoyances would have happened if you had bothered to read up about the way things work before jumping right in without understanding what you were doing.

As Dweller mentioned above me: there's a very good reason why things are as much protected as they are, and if you check out these fora you'll soon learn why. And what would you have to trade anyway being so new and all? ;)

Just read up on the process, set up Steam guard, make sure you're protected. Easy.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/46A2-2B3C-95CC-8878

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I am assuming that TF2 means Team Fortress 2? That's a free game, which means that this new account may not even be able to trade at all. Features like the community market are fully geared towards Steam customers, and if you play free games... then you're not a customer. In fact, you'll have a limited account. I can't help wonder if that may be an issue here as well?

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/71D3-35C2-AD96-AA3A
Última edição por ShelLuser; 20/ago./2022 às 17:26
TJ_4874 20/ago./2022 às 17:39 
I thought i got scammed out of a bunch of crates.

story is A person wanted crates I gave him some crates, he gave me a dual core devil doll, trade went on hold. I was clueless about the trade going on hold, checked his inventory my crates were there, checked my inventory through tf2, the dual core devil doll wasn't there.

10 minutes pass of me looking for what I got from trading. looked at my inventory through steam saw "one trade on hold" clicked it, investigated it. I wasn't scammed, I'm just dumb.

also an important note: I threw in a jarate with the crates for fun
Última edição por TJ_4874; 20/ago./2022 às 17:41
widomakr 20/ago./2022 às 18:11 
Escrito originalmente por ShelLuser:
OP... none of these annoyances would have happened if you had bothered to read up about the way things work before jumping right in without understanding what you were doing.

As Dweller mentioned above me: there's a very good reason why things are as much protected as they are, and if you check out these fora you'll soon learn why. And what would you have to trade anyway being so new and all? ;)

Just read up on the process, set up Steam guard, make sure you're protected. Easy.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/46A2-2B3C-95CC-8878

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I am assuming that TF2 means Team Fortress 2? That's a free game, which means that this new account may not even be able to trade at all. Features like the community market are fully geared towards Steam customers, and if you play free games... then you're not a customer. In fact, you'll have a limited account. I can't help wonder if that may be an issue here as well?

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/71D3-35C2-AD96-AA3A

Let me cut you off right there... and this is where people in IT security go overboard everytime they try something new... IE... I worked for a company that used on shore and off shore personnel and they wanted to 'secure the environment' they focused on restricting the few admin accounts via 2ffa, 24h password rotation, separate admin/user accounts, and other methods which while on the extreme end sound good but cause huge workflow issues... while there were many(1000+) service accounts that and admin rights... nothing done there... off shore admins(50+)... using their regular users accounts for that too...

So that's what Im getting at here... Steam, I understand that someone somewhere got scammed... understood... but while trying to prevent the 1-2% of people getting scammed... you are forking over the other 98-99% of people...

and to your point TJ... should it really be that hard trade with my own son... and should I be forced to install a second 2FFA to trade? requiring the email, OK... forcing the app... Heck no... I jump through hoops all day long at work to be able to work because of security... that shouldnt be forced on to users TRYING to play a game
Última edição por widomakr; 20/ago./2022 às 18:13
Darkslayer16 20/ago./2022 às 18:13 
So as an adult it took you 6 months to read why it didn't work and somehow that's not your fault? Restrictions exist to prevent things like scams, making unlimited accounts to farm items for free, instantly lose all your stuff if someone else ever gains access to your account etc. It makes perfect sense.
ShelLuser 20/ago./2022 às 19:03 
Escrito originalmente por widomakr:
So that's what Im getting at here... Steam, I understand that someone somewhere got scammed... understood... but while trying to prevent the 1-2% of people getting scammed... you are forking over the other 98-99% of people...
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https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/7/3439081454534198297/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/7/3476233614752066931/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/7/3439081454532262361/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/7/3439081454527573338/

That's just one day ("24 hours"), and of course it's also important to realize that not everyone will turn to these fora if they get in trouble. Heck, plenty don't even realize that they are in trouble. See, you can easily double this amount considering the fact that most people get scammed by people using.... compromised accounts.

Another thing... I have 0 issues with trading myself, and it seems these people also don't necessarily agree with you complaints:

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/tradingcards

I mean.... 1,907,164 Steam traders can't be wrong if you ask me ;)

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Question.... instead of trash talking and blaming everyone else for your annoyances, why not just ask for some help to get you fully set up? Each to their own but that would have been far more productive.

There's absolutely no shame in not fully understanding how everything works right away. And I realy understand that it can get frustrating if you simply want to "do" things and yet it doesn't work as you expected.

But mudslinging is not going to fix this, at best we'll end up in a pissing contest which doesn't benefit anyone.

So why don't you take 30 steps back, start over and tell us exactly what isn't working for you right now? Who knows, maybe someone can shed some light on it.
Última edição por ShelLuser; 20/ago./2022 às 19:07
Lauren 20/ago./2022 às 19:05 
The only joke here is your reading comprehension. You somehow work in IT and can't be bothered to research for 6 months?
Escrito originalmente por widomakr:
Let me start... I setup a new account for my son for us to play TF2 together... and after adding his as a 'friend' we were not able to trade due to his account being so new... Really?!?

ok... we tried many times and waited the required 14 days for the trade to go through after agreeing to many warnings... only to have the trade cancelled around 10 days later...

We continued to play together and I gifted him a few games to play and after around 6 months of dealing with this... We tried a trade again... and again it was denied... after 6 months and playing many games together I wouldnt consider his account 'new' but ok...

Reading into things... I found that he needed to spend 5 dollars on something to be taken off the 'restricted' account status... ok... went out today and bought a 20 Steam card and added it to his account... for which he wanted to buy some items on the TF2 market... Nope... you added/bought something within the past 7 days... you account is still 'limited'... WTF... Steam... you have to be kidding me with this security BS...

And to add insult... I tried to trade with my own son again... and because I am not using steam's mobile authentication App... I will have to wait 14 days to make a trade...

Steam... WTF... you have pissed off one of your customers that has been here for 10+ years with this BS... I understand a validation email... I understand security, since I have been working in IT for 20+ years... I was in the military for 10 years... but this BS that you call security has gone well beyond reason...

Please... take about 30 steps back off that cliff that you already walked off and make things reasonable...


>Claims steam security is beyond reason
>Claims to be in the military
>Fails to note the United States military standard encryption is a Triple DES 256 Bitlock that only machines directly connected to the US military grid can access

>Gets mad about having to add a authenticator to his phone to trade
>Forgets to note that standard military laptops also have a Triple DES 256 Bitlock

>Spirit continues to wonder why someone whos from the military is unable to mentally handle a weaker encyption then he's used to.
Wizardhermit 20/ago./2022 às 19:58 
Willing to wait 6 months to try trading again.

Unwilling to wait 15 days to be able to trade.

:bbtcat:
TristanMike 20/ago./2022 às 20:09 
Sorry to pile on....you have apparently had an account for 18 years (your own admission being 10+), long enough for you to either know the rules or be proficient enough to search for the information yourself before posting a rather unreasonable rant. It's not like these rules are new, they've been in practice for quite some time now.
Leonardo Da Pinchi 20/ago./2022 às 20:49 
Going to bet this dude's kid get gets phished going to a "free tf2 items" site. Then is going to claim Steam doesn't do enough.
Ducks on Fire 21/ago./2022 às 1:39 
Another person whose mentality is "I don't care how many people get scammed as long as I don't have to deal with a minor inconvenience"

Considering you are talking about setting up an account for your son I am going to assume that he is either very young or not good with computers because otherwise he should be able to set up an account himself, so I'd think that as a parent you'd be happy that there are so many security features in place.

In an alternate universe OP is here complaining that his son's account was hacked and it's actually do to Steams lack of security and he would now because he was IT for 20 years and also was in the military which is relevant for some reason.
Tito Shivan 21/ago./2022 às 2:36 
Escrito originalmente por widomakr:
So that's what Im getting at here... Steam, I understand that someone somewhere got scammed... understood... but while trying to prevent the 1-2% of people getting scammed... you are forking over the other 98-99% of people...
Before those restrictions were implemented it was more than 1-2% people getting scammed or hijacked... It was way more people by a long shot
https://www.businessinsider.com/steam-trading-theft-hijacking-2015-12

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/stealing-steam-accounts/11560/

The actual restrictions have made it down to the actual figures you mention.

Escrito originalmente por widomakr:
and to your point TJ... should it really be that hard trade with my own son... and should I be forced to install a second 2FFA to trade? requiring the email, OK... forcing the app... Heck no...
And that's an already travelled road. Using email for trade verification had the issue of it being also compromised the moment the user's computer was, as they shared device. Hence Steam's push to move trade verifications off to a different device.
ZeroSorrow™ 22/ago./2022 às 8:28 
you have had 18 years to figure out how trading works
nullable 22/ago./2022 às 8:46 
Millions of people use the trading system without issue, and have no problem meeting the requirements. Maybe this is a PEBKAC issue? I know, hard pill to swallow... but it kinda seems like you're saying, "I've got all this experience and if I'm having problems it must be your fault, even if it's clear I've made some bad assumptions and guesses as to how the system works, and it's not any sort of hubris on my part."

And let's be honest, Valve has way more experience than you do. And they have way more expertise. And they have better data than your made up statistics.

Sometimes you have to learn how to use the system that currently exists, because all your wailing isn't going to result in the system you think should exist. And sputtering, "but but some other system works differently, and here's a story about some security I didn't like at some other company", really has nothing to do with anything.
Última edição por nullable; 22/ago./2022 às 8:49
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