I feel unique. My account was disabled over a trading debacle. - Games

[QUOTE=BobbyHill;25464541]I swear if i loose my account (which i need The Movies Game for school projects) I will blow up the HQ and somehow get my account back. Valve is loosing fans cause of these kids[/QUOTE] Just don't trade with people unless you trust them.

[QUOTE=dsi1;25464837]Just don't trade with people unless you trust them.[/QUOTE] Isn't that shitty, though? Why should we feel so scared to use trading as to just... Not use it?

Basically Valve pandered to people who genuinely got ripped off and now people are abusing the power. They sort it out, write support an email explaining your situation and you may have you account re-enabled

To who? Robin's too busy for that sort of stuff likely

[QUOTE=Xolo;25464866]Isn't that shitty, though? Why should we feel so scared to use trading as to just... Not use it?[/QUOTE] Well it isn't the solution, only Valve can really fix the issue by changing the punishments for scamming, and what they see as scamming. (I'd prefer an Eve-like "you were dumb enough to fall for it, you don't deserve anything for being an idiot" style of thought, but that is incredibly wishful thinking...)

[QUOTE=dsi1;25464979]Well it isn't the solution, only Valve can really fix the issue by changing the punishments for scamming, and what they see as scamming. (I'd prefer an Eve-like "you were dumb enough to fall for it, you don't deserve anything for being an idiot" style of thought, but that is incredibly wishful thinking...)[/QUOTE] That's applicable on Eve because the learning curve filters the idiots out I would have honestly been fine if trading had never came out, it just complicates things unnecessarily. You can craft or find stuff you want given enough time. Except hats. But, really, is this much controversy worth people getting the cosmetic item they want? Maybe they could have a sort of "honor system" where the punishment for scamming is you get a big red "THIS USER IS A SCAMMER" item in your backpack

This is insane. Valve should be sued for this.

[QUOTE=Xolo;25465029]Maybe they could have a sort of "honor system" where the punishment for scamming is you get a big red "THIS USER IS A SCAMMER" item in your backpack[/QUOTE] Perhaps a big flying text that is always equipped in your action slot rather, to make it more obvious to other players and more humiliating for the scammer.

Same shit happened to me. Honest to god having second thoughts of not wanting to buy Portal 2 or Episode 3.

Gabe's evil plan to make people buy TF2 + other source games twice.

[QUOTE=Bittersweet;25465150]Same shit happened to me. Honest to god having second thoughts of not wanting to buy Portal 2 or Episode 3.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't go that far! Though they were wrong in this scenario, they make good games

[QUOTE=Xolo;25465173]I wouldn't go that far! Though they were wrong in this scenario, they make good games[/QUOTE] Good games or not... if you can't play them for having your account disabled, I don't think you'll think they're worth the money.

Yeah. Hopefully, though, they'll re-enable the account.

God damn alot of people on the SPUF are damn retarded

[QUOTE=Chekko;25465111]This is insane. Valve should be sued for this.[/QUOTE] Sadly they can't be, because IIRC they can disable your accounts for anything.

[QUOTE=Xolo;25465242]Yeah. Hopefully, though, they'll re-enable the account.[/QUOTE] You can be my friend through these troubled times.

If you do not email Robin about this, then I will get his attention on this story myself. This is an inadmissible situation and it must be solved quickly.

[QUOTE=Blackbird88;25465278]Sadly they can't be, because IIRC they can disable your accounts for anything.[/QUOTE] Yeah, apparently you're only "renting" the games you buy if you buy them on steam, and they can decide you've rented them for long enough if they want damn TOS I didn't read

Something like this happend to me recently. Traded all my stuff from my second account, Then my account got disabled had a value of ~$300.

[QUOTE=Bittersweet;25465310]You can be my friend through these troubled times.[/QUOTE] brohug [editline]17th October 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Sonic4Ever;25465336]If you do not email Robin about this, then I will get his attention on this story myself. This is an inadmissible situation and it must be solved quickly.[/QUOTE] Okay. I'll send him one. [email]robin@valvesoftware.com[/email] Right? [editline]17th October 2010[/editline] Also, I can see that "10 scammers banned" figure being a wee bit skewed

I hope you get your account back. Stuff like this is horrible, especially if you have a lot of games on the account.

[QUOTE=Orange-Soda;25465401]I hope you get your account back. Stuff like this is horrible, especially if you have a lot of games on the account.[/QUOTE] I had a decent amount. [url]http://steamcommunity.com/id/Cogniscente[/url] Also, I didn't join the 4chan group myself. I fell for this elaborate (no really) phishing scam and they added the account to it about a year ago. but then I contacted support and Gertrude was all like "fuck you phisher" and gave me a new password

[QUOTE=Xolo;25464128][img_thumb]http://img1.uploadscreenshot.com/images/orig/10/28912544230-orig.jpg[/img_thumb] Still nothing drat[/QUOTE] Everyone email this to Robin. [I]Right now. [/I]

I would, but can't seem to find his email.

[email]robin@valvesoftware.com[/email]

what a cunt.

Its terrible that your entire account was disabled over a TF2 hat. But I do think you should have just given him the hat back. You offered something for a valuable hat. Someone gave you the hat, and you didn't do EXACTLY what he paid for, so he asked for the hat back. You're saying this "wasn't part of the deal", but you didn't EXACTLY do YOUR part of the deal. Still, disabling your entire Steam account over a TF2 hat is too much.

[QUOTE=Andru91;25465558][email]robin@valvesoftware.com[/email][/QUOTE] Wouldn't it be in the same vein as Gabe's email that he gives out in the TF2 developer walkthrough thing? Is that even still included in TF2?

I felt tf2 was going down-hill at the speed of light when the mann-conomy came out. The weapons, trading, the shop, everything. THERE WAS NOTHING I GENUINELY LIKED IN THE UPDATE.

[QUOTE=Andru91;25465558][email]robin@valvesoftware.com[/email][/QUOTE] Okay, sent him one