Adding a Untradeable feature to Steam items...

[Shiknewki]

Hello People...

Today I bring you a idea that can work if done successfully and well!

What is this idea you may ask? Well, the idea is to add a feature Called "Untradeable" too Your Steam items!

What does this do?

it means you can make Your item(s) Untradeable, but how does this help anyone? Well imagine You have a item you really love! but you want to make sure that you will always have this item, even if you get Hacked/scammed.
Luckily, since You put your item on Untradeable, The Hacker/scammer can not give the item to their account.

Let's put it into a MMO type way of explaining it. Say you have Your item, and it's player bound because you equipped it, meaning you can't trade it. In this sense, it's basically the same thing! You can't trade and you may love that item, so it's a win, win.

How could this be added and how would it work?

Well, I don't think making this a easy process would be a good idea, here's why: Say you get hacked, you don't want all your items just to be locked due to the hacker locking them by a press of a button. So, what do we do? I think making it so you need to put a code in would be a good idea, but what type of code's would we use? well something like Steams inbuilt 2FA. On top have that you could also add a code that also get's sent to your Email, to really make sure you want to lock this item and stop a hacker from either stealing Your item(s) or locking them all.

Why should this be added?

Well as someone who has gotten hacked and lost a lot of money, I feel this could be really good for people's security on their account, especially if they have a lot of expensive items on that account.

I have a few images as examples. (These Images are Photoshopped, they are not actually apart of Steam yet.) (The Red Cap Item you see in these images is in my inventory, but I did not make the item itself, I am only using it as a example.)

My ideas that could be added to this

having to options between having a Permanent lock on an item, and also having a Custom date for when you want to it be unlocked again.

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The Conclusion

I think this could be a good idea, and if done, it'll will help a lot of people. No one will need to worry about losing a beloved item they may have.

Please understand this is only a idea. if you see a problem with this idea, say something! I would like to hear what could be wrong with this. Maybe you have some ideas of your own as well that could be added to this!

EDIT: If there is any miss confusion, Please understand that it is not my intention, I just want to see peoples idea's on this and what could be wrong with it too.

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hey this idea again.....

[Shiknewki]

Originally posted by The Living Tribunal:

hey this idea again.....

It's not a bad idea tbh. Also was this post made before? because I tried looking for one like this but I couldn't find one.

[Tito Shivan]

I can understand the lock to prevent accidental trade sale of the item.
However y lock you can put on an item can be removed by an account hijacker, as he'll have as much control of the account as you do.

[[N]ebsun]

Seems like something that either will not do anything since the scammer / hijacker can unlock it them self, or will result in a ton of support tickets from people who locked something and cannot unlock it.. or from people who lock their item and then want to sell it complaining about whatever delay there is between unlocking and being able to trade/sell it..

then there will be people complaining that despite having a password, 2FA for logging in, 2FA for confirming trades, items locked, yet they still get scammed / hijacked into making the trade and losing the items.. and they will complain about why there is no lock on the lock

[Shiknewki]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

I can understand the lock to prevent accidental trade sale of the item.
However y lock you can put on an item can be removed by an account hijacker, as he'll have as much control of the account as you do.

You make a good point, but something I didn't put in great detail is That if you were to lock that item, It means it can't be broken, sold, traded so on. but I do still see your point here!

[Shiknewki]

Originally posted by Nebsun:

Seems like something that either will not do anything since the scammer / hijacker can unlock it them self, or will result in a ton of support tickets from people who locked something and cannot unlock it.. or from people who lock their item and then want to sell it complaining about whatever delay there is between unlocking and being able to trade/sell it

Yeah this is my fault for not explaining one thing better, is that once it has been locked, it can not be undone. unless you chose a timed unlock, but even then you have to wait for it, you can't just change the time on it. However I do see how The hijacker can delay access to the account for that item. But they would only be delaying a timed lock, if it is a permanent lock it's not going to be tradeable no matter what, meaning it would be useless to the hijacker.

Something else I said in here is as well, is that locking something isn't as easy as a press of a button. You will have to go through a process. So just make sure you want to lock that item and think of it in the long run as well.

The Ticket's would be a problem tbh, so I feel like they shouldn't be able to be undone by tickets. but I see how this could also lead to more problems. so tickets would be a problem with this.

The lock on a lock thing is a problem. but as I said in one of the other reply's, Once a item has been locked, it can not be traded, sold or broken down into Gems. meaning it will be stuck in your inventory, but now I've put it into my own words I see another problem with it being stuck in said inventory.

[Stellar Remnant]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

I can understand the lock to prevent accidental trade sale of the item.
However y lock you can put on an item can be removed by an account hijacker, as he'll have as much control of the account as you do.

How would you hijack 2FA? If they send a new code, the hijacker would need access to the email account too.

[Knee]

I think the "untradeable" thing either needs to be non-reversible or takes a significant amount of time to allow this "untradeable" configuration to be unset. In case one does have their account compromised, they have the time to get their account back before their items are unlocked and given away.

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by MiniHerc:

How would you hijack 2FA? If they send a new code, the hijacker would need access to the email account too.

Once into the account they can freely change the contact email to a new account. Then request the code to be sent to the new email.

[Stellar Remnant]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

Originally posted by MiniHerc:

How would you hijack 2FA? If they send a new code, the hijacker would need access to the email account too.

Once into the account they can freely change the contact email to a new account. Then request the code to be sent to the new email.

I just tried clicking 'change my email address' and they asked to send a confirmation to my Steam mobile guard app.

[Shiknewki]

Originally posted by Knee:

I think the "untradeable" thing either needs to be non-reversible or takes a significant amount of time to allow this "untradeable" configuration to be unset. In case one does have their account compromised, they have the time to get their account back before their items are unlocked and given away.

I agree with this, they either need to set a really long timer if there is a undo button, or as You said, Make it non-reversible

[Shiknewki]

Originally posted by Everyone is Invited:

i like this idea i think the choice to perma lock a item to an account should be allowed, and it should be non reversible , to many people lose items they love do to scams, i think allowing players to perma lock items to the account would decrease player woes of getting accounts compromised and items stolen.

nobody cares if they lose some junk items, and thieves would be crying wishing they could unlock the perma items as the accounts get reset back to the orginal owners with all the items they love still entact.

also keep in mind steam will perma lock items to a vac banned account to not allow users to trade them so the feature exists it just needs adapted to be useful to users who don't cheat.

Agreed, Too many people have lost their items, not mention expensive items at that. I feel like having the feature to be able to lock your items so even when you do get hacked, you don't have to worry so much about it!

Making it a perma lock is a good idea too, but think having the option to also have a timed lock as well would be good, just in-case you want to sell your items later on.

[Freqsync]

Had me at untradeable. Not a clue of the rest of the words.
Yet Favorited items in ever single game on this platform become unsalable(was unsellable) it's like falling through floors guaranteed.

If steam platform has their seasonal mini games, stickers (which have no idea what they are for), inventory, back story of your avatar, the ability to delete the account. This is just one more to add to the list of please allow to remove greyed out moderator deleted, self accidentally deleted before realized it would be like that forever, destroy cloud saves with a touch of a button, cancel food order button, chat with actual friends not the google bot that assumed their identity and so forth.