[UPDATE #2] New Steam Guard feature to help protect your items

[KonG™]

We have made the necessary adjustments to this security feature and are planning on turning it on Monday September 23rd, 2013.

The new changes should not affect users with multiple devices in the same household. If you have a device that has Steam Guard enabled in your household for 15 days and you enable Steam Guard on a new device in your household you should not be affected by the cooldown for the new device.

[AtomicWoodchuck]

Any word on whether Valve is actually working on fixing this?

FFS. It never takes this long to fix "important" issues like pricing errors... Please, for the love of Gaben, just roll back the damn update, take a few deep breaths, and try and think about what you're going to do next time...

[Something Wrong]

Valve, you're fucking dumbasses (or whoever who has authority to invent and integrate this feature into Steam so quickly prior to the weigh and study around).

In my mind, I could understand the 5 days, but not the fucking fifteen days.

Look:
- In case you have resetted victim's password - you've got 5 days trade ban (it was working more than half a year for now).
- Password matched, success, but you're on a new device - 15 days! LOL, can you share a little piece of that magic logic?

If a person got trojan or other malicious exploit aboard -- neither of this features will save them. Nothing you can do there. SteamGuard file can be downloaded, 'MachineAuth' cookie can be extracted.

But why millions of regular end-users should eat shit just to help you close a small hole which allows to hijack 0.001% of degenerative users each month? Bad luck will be always applicable to some amount of users.

Do not go too far and take out authority from legally incapable Valve's minds, authority for integrating insufficiently thoughtful things right from the draft sheet.

DerrickG™ eredeti hozzászólása:

During our server maintenance on August 28th, 2013 we implemented a new security feature to protect users from having their items stolen. As a result you may receive a message that says you have logged into a new device and are unable to trade for 15 days. If this is the case you will need to wait the 15 day period before you can trade from that device/browser, because you are on a device/browser that has not had Steam Guard enabled on your account for 15 days. Steam Support is unable to remove this restriction from your account.

You can continue to trade from any devices or browsers, that were authorized for at least 15 days.

To avoid this restriction from triggering you should not delete Steam cookies from your browser, deactivate Steam Guard on your account or reinstall the Steam client. If you have Steam Guard enabled currently and have had it enabled for 15 days on your account then you will be unaffected by this change.

Our goal is to prevent trading on your account before you are able to react if your account is hijacked.

[Charade]

And aren't there false positives? Like i said, my friend who often trades cards with me got this suspension, and hasn't done anything the OP said that triggers it. it just happened out of the blue.
Thankfully i was unaffected..but now i can't trade with him for 2 weeks.

[z]

Wow, just wow.

First, tf2 idling disable.
Second, no refunds
Third, cockblocking ENTIRE account just because you cleaned cookies.

Go EA, I believe in you.

[TnT]

Turn it BACK omg!!! u kidding me??? i want reinstal PC and now i cant ? u realy "BEST" !

[largeelvis]

This is ridiculous.

[Y乇llow 𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖘𝖍]

yesterday it was just fine but today poof cant trade for 15 days :/

[Pheace]

Zeekstey! eredeti hozzászólása:

Third, cockblocking ENTIRE account just because you cleaned cookies.

It doesn't do this at all. Clearing cookies will prevent you from trading through your browser. It won't stop you from trading in Steam.

[lookering]

TnT eredeti hozzászólása:

Turn it BACK omg!!! u kidding me??? i want reinstal PC and now i cant ? u realy "BEST" !

yes, reinstal OS / buy a new PC / instal linux - and hello! trade is gone...

[BEN CHUKOY]

This is a very bad move Valve. It is their fault to be hacked. That code to be entered when we log in is already a good security for us. -1 to this rule.

[Marlfox]

yay just missed out on $5 profit, didn't know my steam client trade was disabled till i clicked buy.

[Y乇llow 𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖘𝖍]

Pheace eredeti hozzászólása:

W3xor eredeti hozzászólása:

Now i'm at work, when i go home, i got + more 15 days? LOL

No. You don't seem to understand the update.

i used the same pc still banned -.-"

[GWOP-W×TCH]

Can't wait to randomly get that "We don't recognize the browser you're using" ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that always seems to randomly pop up even though I don't delete cookies, change computers or browsers. You should block users from trading if they so much as move their mouse wrong. How about instead of incorporating this garbage, you tell people to stop giving their passwords out, instead of punishing people who don't. God forbid someone is stupid enough to do that, and now everyone else has to suffer for *Valve's incompetent amount of oversight.* But I digress! Can't wait until you guys add "You have been blocked from trading for 15 days because you changed the amount of RAM in your computer."

[nagNiB]

lock trade 15 day is very stupid, if u don't have money, can't buy pc for myself and play in other pc of Net Public ? Your account was locked trade ? Not Fair or Steam's Idea is make game for rich man ???????????????????????????

[✪ Imotality]

I AM GETTING BE RELLY MAD ABOUT THIS VALVE YOU MUST FIX THIS ♥♥♥♥ UPDATE PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZ