Steam Idle Master

[Praetorian]

Hello if i use this Program will i get banned? how much is the risk of being banned?

[Hanomaly]

Originally posted by Praetorian:

Hello if i use this Program will i get banned? how much is the risk of being banned?

Using it on a single player game is never a problem.
Using it on a multiplayer game is probably not a problem, but who knows.

i use it, or SAM to idle games to get trading card drops. And never had a problem. Of course, these are all single player games i'm just idling for trading card drops. If you are idling a game for some sort of in-game item.. or in-game reward.. or some other cheater-y reason you may indeed be banned or in trouble.

[Mu6o]

I would refer to Archii for idling.

[Praetorian]

Originally posted by Hanomaly:

Originally posted by Praetorian:

Hello if i use this Program will i get banned? how much is the risk of being banned?

Using it on a single player game is never a problem.
Using it on a multiplayer game is probably not a problem, but who knows.

i use it, or SAM to idle games to get trading card drops. And never had a problem. Of course, these are all single player games i'm just idling for trading card drops. If you are idling a game for some sort of in-game item.. or in-game reward.. or some other cheater-y reason you may indeed be banned or in trouble.

ive had games from Humble bundle that i wasnt able to play either they suck or i dont like them but they arent connected to valve in anyway i just want to get the Steam Cards without playing and installing them will i get banned?

[Praetorian]

Originally posted by Mu6o:

I would refer to Archii for idling.

what is archii? is it safe?

[Mu6o]

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/gCxhN/archis-steam-farm-asf-steam-cards-farmer-and-much-more-windowslinuxos-x

[Hanomaly]

Originally posted by Praetorian:

Originally posted by Hanomaly:

Using it on a single player game is never a problem.
Using it on a multiplayer game is probably not a problem, but who knows.

i use it, or SAM to idle games to get trading card drops. And never had a problem. Of course, these are all single player games i'm just idling for trading card drops. If you are idling a game for some sort of in-game item.. or in-game reward.. or some other cheater-y reason you may indeed be banned or in trouble.

ive had games from Humble bundle that i wasnt able to play either they suck or i dont like them but they arent connected to valve in anyway i just want to get the Steam Cards without playing and installing them will i get banned?

That's exactly what i've been doing for at least 2 years and never had a problem. i have no bans on my account, or anything else.

BUT who knows if your experience will be different :) i don't want to say it's 100% safe, but.. i *personally* think using Idle Master or SAM to idle humblebundle type games for trading cards is 99.9999% safe. But that's just my personal opinion based on my own experience.

But, since Valve has made no statement about using 3rd party programs like that being "okay when idling for cards", there's no 100% guarentee it's safe tho.

[Praetorian]

Originally posted by Hanomaly:

Originally posted by Praetorian:

ive had games from Humble bundle that i wasnt able to play either they suck or i dont like them but they arent connected to valve in anyway i just want to get the Steam Cards without playing and installing them will i get banned?

That's exactly what i've been doing for at least 2 years and never had a problem. i have no bans on my account, or anything else.

BUT who knows if your experience will be different :) i don't want to say it's 100% safe, but.. i *personally* think using Idle Master or SAM to idle humblebundle type games for trading cards is 99.9999% safe. But that's just my personal opinion based on my own experience.

But, since Valve has made no statement about using 3rd party programs like that being "okay when idling for cards", there's no 100% guarentee it's safe tho.

what program have you been using?

[Tev]

Originally posted by Praetorian:

Originally posted by Hanomaly:

That's exactly what i've been doing for at least 2 years and never had a problem. i have no bans on my account, or anything else.

BUT who knows if your experience will be different :) i don't want to say it's 100% safe, but.. i *personally* think using Idle Master or SAM to idle humblebundle type games for trading cards is 99.9999% safe. But that's just my personal opinion based on my own experience.

But, since Valve has made no statement about using 3rd party programs like that being "okay when idling for cards", there's no 100% guarentee it's safe tho.

what program have you been using?

While I'm not Hanomaly, I use Idle Master, have used it for months, and I haven't had issues.

[MancSoulja]

Idle Master or Archii is completely safe. Stay away from SAM though, it's a game ban waiting to happen.

[Com Nguoi]

SIM is pretty safe ! But becareful with SAM, im not sure its safe !

[Omega]

Using software to idle singleplayer games for cards is perfectly fine.

[Praetorian]

i downloaded Archi though for safety purposes did i make a right decision?

[Hanomaly]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Idle Master or Archii is completely safe. Stay away from SAM though, it's a game ban waiting to happen.

i actually use SAM for my game idling and never had a problem.
i do think SAM can get you in trouble for cheating multiplayer game achievements (that give you in game rewards) tho. i've never done that, however, so i have no experience.

i used SAM for idling trading cards because i heard of it first. i didn't hear of Idle Master until like a year ago, but since i'd already been using SAM for the same thing for a whole year i didn't bother changing to using something else.

But to be safe you could/should maybe err on the side of caution and use the other programs mentioned.

Afterall, just because i haven't had a problem using SAM for idling trading cards for 2 years doesn't mean you won't end up having a problem when using it.