valve why make trading so complicated geezz my items are still stuck on a betting site because of this new policy

[76561198240379218]

Hope you understand your consumers pain ah I forgot your all about the money your heart is hard as a rock

[Dakota]

Because of scams and such. You know, phishers, bots, sketchy things going on with betting sites, and all that jazz.

[FFL2and3rocks]

77,000 Steam accounts are hijacked every month. People keep complaining about how long it takes for Steam Support to retrieve their stolen account, and demanded that they do something about it. So they did.

[76561198240379218]

They should use common sense or warnings because we can prevent it if we ignore or block scamming bot not clicking on the links

[FFL2and3rocks]

That doesn't work, the bots would just continue to go after everyone who is gullible enough to fall for it, which is a LOT of people.

People make a lot of money by stealing Steam accounts and selling their items. Valve made this change to ruin their business.

[Tev]

Originally posted by Godhelpme:

They should use common sense or warnings because we can prevent it if we ignore or block scamming bot not clicking on the links

They should, but they don't. That's the harsh reality.

Since trading is not a necessity the same way Steam Support is, when the former clogs up the latter, there have to be measures.

If they had a rock cold heart, they'd have just killed off trading entirely and left Market in place. Market gets them money and doesn't clog up the support, but instead they chose to make a compromise.

[76561198240379218]

You all have a point there because many beginners who are stupid enough to click on links are mostly the victims of scamming bots hope we can find the origins of the scamming bots mostly russians

[Carnage]

There should be an option to turn it off and accept the risk, and if you do get scammed with it turned off steam support won't help you, I'm tired of having to wait a week to trade

[Dakota]

Originally posted by Carnage:

There should be an option to turn it off and accept the risk, and if you do get scammed with it turned off steam support won't help you, I'm tired of having to wait a week to trade

That is a great idea. We should be able to turn it off, but for the safety of Steam users we should require people to connect their phones to Steam to verify their accounts and wait a few days to reconfirm that they want to disable the trading safety measures.

[Tev]

Originally posted by Carnage:

There should be an option to turn it off and accept the risk, and if you do get scammed with it turned off steam support won't help you, I'm tired of having to wait a week to trade

Hijackers already turn off people's trade confirmations too.

There's even people who give other people links to the confirmation pages. This wouldn't solve anything.

[76561198240379218]

Its been a week now our items are still stuck in the betting sites

[Dakota]

Originally posted by Godhelpme:

Its been a week now our items are still stuck in the betting sites

Guess you made a mistake

[76561198240379218]

That new policy zzzz please valve give back the old policy

[Tev]

Originally posted by Godhelpme:

That new policy zzzz please valve give back the old policy

Not happening.

Complain to your "betting" site instead.

[76561198240379218]

They are doing the best that they can but the only thing that stopping them are the new policy of valve because the bots are not prepared for the new policy valve make things complicated

[Tev]

Originally posted by Godhelpme:

They are doing the best that they can but the only thing that stopping them are the new policy of valve because the bots are not prepared for the new policy valve make things complicated

Well, that's clearly not changing by the looks of things.