Stop the Fort Knox Security System

[Time for a Nap]

I appreciate the need for security, but Valve, stop with your hyper-paranoid steam guard. I have to get a verification code every three pages when I use my computer, I can't actually buy anything from the community market for a whole [censored] week if I register a new computer, and my email account is inundated with emails telling me I bought something on the community market. What's worst, there's no way to opt out of this draconian system of yours. I can't tell the market not to send an email every time I buy a [censored] item on the market place, meaning I can sometimes get as many as 30-40 emails telling me I spent 9 cents on various steam cards. I get 4-5 additional emails when I'm using my lap top or desk top, just to make sure no one killed me and is using my account to buy chat emotes. And if I tell steam guard to [censored] off, then I'm not allowed to use the community market at all. What the hell, Valve? Did ♥♥♥♥ Cheney and the rest of the Bush administration design your security system? Are we at code-beige security level and thus I need 100 emails a day confirming that, yes, I am me and not an imposter?

Let me turn off your stupid steam guard without penalizing me by disabling features. I promise I'm adult enough to accept responsibility if I for some reason publish my personal information all over the internet. You're more paranoid about keeping me "safe" than my mother after reading a chain email about wandering rabid dogs eating children alive in Uruguay. Why not just wrap me in bubble wrap and make sure I never leave my house while you're at it?

[Satoru]

Stop deleting the SteamGuard cookie if you want to prevent the trading cooldown

[Tito Shivan]

And you can set filters on your email client to sort out your inbox.

[76561198001062896]

Its not only about you but about the safety of other users too

[Time for a Nap]

In response to Satoru, I've never, ever deleted the SteamGuard cookie, but when I sign-in on a new device, i.e. the new lap top I got after my old one burned out, I had to wait a week before I could do anything on it. So for doing nothing wrong, I'm stuck with a week-long penalty in order to protect Valve's all-important micro-transactions.

And to Tito Shivan, I have set up filters so that all Steam-related emails go into a separate folder I have for online banking and purchases, but that just means that there's a specific folder getting flooded with emails to remind me I bought some Steam cards or what-have-you for less than a dime each. And there's no way to disable this option from within Steam itself.

At the very least there should be an option--in Steam, on its Community Market page--to disable email receipts. Ironically enough, I can disable literally every Steam marketing email EXCEPT for market place receipts. What's so important about the community market that Valve has to set up this level of policing and security? As it stands, I'll probably have to tell my inbox to straight-up block any and all communication from Steam, which is basically using a third-party program to adjust my Steam and Valve communication settings, and that makes absolute-zero sense.

[Start_Running]

Before Valve tightened security people whined aout valve needing tighter security. Now they whine about the security being too tight. You're probably not going to see a drop in security on Steam. for the simple reason:

Better to have people complain about the security being too tight than complain about security being too lax.

You can be taken to court for negligence on the latter.

[HLCinSC]

引用自 aGundamUpThere：

In response to Satoru, I've never, ever deleted the SteamGuard cookie, but when I sign-in on a new device, i.e. the new lap top I got after my old one burned out, I had to wait a week before I could do anything on it. So for doing nothing wrong, I'm stuck with a week-long penalty in order to protect Valve's all-important micro-transactions.

引用自 aGundamUpThere：

I appreciate the need for security, but Valve, stop with your hyper-paranoid steam guard. I have to get a verification code every three pages when I use my computer,

So are you gettingthe new device cooldown because you have a new computer or because something on the computer is messing with Steam's cookies or files. If it is the first thing then its a one time deal and you shouldn't have to worry about it unless your constantly burning through new laptops. If its the latter, then something on your computer is deleting steam's cookies or not allowing te client program to operate properly. Does it happen in both your browser and client program? Are you running any security, privacy, or optimization programs that may be interfering with Steam?

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1047-edfm-2932

[Satoru]

Again the 7 day cooldown for new devices is ONCE

A ONE TIME cooldown is hardly "draconian"

[Time for a Nap]

To CharlestONE, I logged in on my lap top for the first time and had to get a verification code five times in one day, never once closing the browser or deleting the history/cookies. That says there's definitely something wrong with the system.

To Satoru, you're being unhelpful to say the least, you Valve fanboy.

[Marioalexsan]

引用自 aGundamUpThere：

To CharlestONE, I logged in on my lap top for the first time and had to get a verification code five times in one day, never once closing the browser or deleting the history/cookies. That says there's definitely something wrong with the system.

To Satoru, you're being unhelpful to say the least, you Valve fanboy.

If you need to get 5 verification codes per day, then something is wrong with your device.
Smartphone, laptop and desktop here, but no such problems.

[Unexpected]

引用自 aGundamUpThere：

To CharlestONE, I logged in on my lap top for the first time and had to get a verification code five times in one day, never once closing the browser or deleting the history/cookies. That says there's definitely something wrong with the system.

To Satoru, you're being unhelpful to say the least, you Valve fanboy.

toxic attitude, complaining about steam guard, i think this thread is generic hate

[Tito Shivan]

引用自 aGundamUpThere：

To CharlestONE, I logged in on my lap top for the first time and had to get a verification code five times in one day, never once closing the browser or deleting the history/cookies. That says there's definitely something wrong with the system.

Steam may require a Steamguard code if you try to make a store purchase within the browser for security reasons.
Note that introducing this code creates no further cooldowns on the market use as long as you don't delete the site cookies.

[Satoru]

Pointing out the "facts" is not being a fanboy. That is how intellectually lazy people respond when confronted and they have no argument

1) a ONE TIME 7 day cooldown for a new computer is not "draconian". Since you got a new computer the system did exactly what it was supposed to do. After which you will not receive any more cooldowns AS LONG AS YOU DONT DELETE THE COOKIE

2) if your keep getting the SteamGuard code then you're killing the cookie somehow. Aka stop doing that

You don't want "help" apparently because you refuse to acknowledge what the issue is