Steam Authenticator Rant Post

[Clyde Frog]

Remove the sms code part from the app, some of us don't have smart phones and to waste $$$ on one to trade and sell is discrimination for those of us that don't have smart phones. Remove it. Let me trade and sell. Post your love so Steam will remove it :D

[Dark Lord JimbobMurphy]

It's terrible, I have to wait 15 days to sell my extra summer sale cards or trade them to my friends....even if I had initiated a trade on day 1 of the sale, they'd be expired by the time it went through. This was not a well thought out feature that isn't even working right for everyone who DOES have a smartphone.

We, the angry, need to start painting it as a classist move by valve. If we start making noise about how valve is prohibitively limiting those without the income to purchase a smartphone, they might listen.

[nyandi]

No, it wasn't poorly-thought out. They don't want people selling event cards unless they have the mobile authenticator app. Personally, this is a major turn-off for the steam cards, and I think they're making a huge mistake by putting such an absurdly long delay in.

[Marekatt]

I don't have a smart phone and i don't intend to buy one, what have i done to deserve this discrimination?
14 days _forever_?

[LunaticHippy .MurdocK]

Im just gonna drop this here: http://www.hacker9.com/hack-android-smartphone-vulnerability.html

This is an article about last years Stagefright attack. Long story short, for security-conscious people its more likely that your phone will get owned than your email.

I get that Valve is going after the common denominator of users with this policy, but there should be an opt-out. I have happily used email authentication for years. My email is a (rotating) 60+ char unique password, and the machines I access my email on are more secured than my phone.

[Worldzworstgamer]

Originally posted by Soul Eater:

Remove the sms code part from the app, some of us don't have smart phones and to waste $$$ on one to trade and sell is discrimination for those of us that don't have smart phones. Remove it. Let me trade and sell. Post your love so Steam will remove it :D

I agree.