• Steam's new gifting restrictions regarding VAC-enabled games
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They've been taking away cool features over a couple dipshits for years, many suspect it's so they can shift blame to end user and not have to deal with support tickets. Retards can't avoid phishing? Better remove /me, and censor links in private chats Shitheads can't stop getting themselves scammed? Better start a ludicrously tedious amount of verification and cool downs to trading Fucktards won't stop breaking their toaster laptop using 1:1 scale textures on tf2? Better remove mat_pipmip 10 It's pretty annoying how often cool shit is being taken out to appease total morons I don't know why they bother, I still see people acting like valve are assholes for stupid shit like a 1gb CSGO update because they're running in the 90s with data caps
Best way to get Valve to stop this is to make an uproar over it. They've done some stupid shit but they do tend to listen to their customer base more than most companies.
As someone already said, this stops people from spamming alts [B][I]cheaply[/I][/B]
[quote]If you gift a friend Rust, a Valve game, or a Call of Duty game and they get permanently banned, you won't be able to gift anyone that game ever again[/quote] thats fucked
[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;50835633]They've been taking away cool features over a couple dipshits for years, many suspect it's so they can shift blame to end user and not have to deal with support tickets. Retards can't avoid phishing? Better remove /me, and censor links in private chats Shitheads can't stop getting themselves scammed? Better start a ludicrously tedious amount of verification and cool downs to trading Fucktards won't stop breaking their toaster laptop using 1:1 scale textures on tf2? Better remove mat_pipmip 10 It's pretty annoying how often cool shit is being taken out to appease total morons I don't know why they bother, I still see people acting like valve are assholes for stupid shit like a 1gb CSGO update because they're running in the 90s with data caps[/QUOTE] Admittedly /me is straight up fucking useless outside of weirdo ERP bullshit. And the number of links being "censored" isn't that huge. It's rarely going to affect you unless you and your friends are constantly sharing links to sites designed to undermine components of Steam security or whatever. And the authentication stuff is really standard security practice now. Some form of 2FA is used in a lot of situations that involve untrusted individuals exchanging goods online. It's not just to protect idiots from themselves, but also so that Valve can say they are actively trying to improve how secure transactions are. 2FA is only a problem if you make it one tbh. It's not like owning a Windows phone is a problem any more either, people developed alternatives fairly fast if I recall.
[QUOTE=Araknid;50839108][quote]If you gift a friend Rust, a Valve game, or a Call of Duty game and they get permanently banned, you won't be able to gift anyone that game ever again[/quote] thats fucked[/QUOTE] I agree with this, that seems rough. I would feel better if it worked on a two/three strike system based on how old the account is or what level it is. At least that way people would have to wait a long time or put a lot of effort into making alt accounts.
[QUOTE=hexpunK;50839113]Admittedly /me is straight up fucking useless outside of weirdo ERP bullshit. And the number of links being "censored" isn't that huge. It's rarely going to affect you unless you and your friends are constantly sharing links to sites designed to undermine components of Steam security or whatever. [/QUOTE] fun fact: google docs is blocked on steam. i didn't realize i was undermining steam security by sending a google docs link to somebody. [quote][12:42:55 AM] Lord Homogay~♥: yeah, i'm using this list to try narrowing it down -- [url]https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kh1TZdtyX7UlRd55OBxf7DB-JGj2rsfWckI0FPQRYhE/edit#gid=0[/url] [12:43:02 AM] [A friend on steam]: {LINK REMOVED} [12:43:05 AM] [A friend on steam]: fucking steam [12:43:06 AM] [A friend on steam]: ahahahahaha [12:43:11 AM] [A friend on steam]: they blocked your link [12:43:13 AM] Lord Homogay~♥: lol wow [12:43:16 AM] Lord Homogay~♥: its just a google docs link [12:43:23 AM] [A friend on steam]: wshat a turd [12:43:23 AM] [A friend on steam]: hahaha [12:43:27 AM] [A friend on steam]: they do that to me too [12:43:31 AM] [A friend on steam]: fucking whyyyy [12:43:37 AM] Lord Homogay~♥: can you not send google docs on steam? wtf [12:43:53 AM] [A friend on steam]: yeah you can't [12:43:59 AM] Lord Homogay~♥: seriously? wtf? [12:44:03 AM] Lord Homogay~♥: hold on imma test this [12:44:06 AM] Lord Homogay~♥: [url]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lZNEXw0_KJHe9aSnPn4ioSvTmeENKuxRl0DnxZcy_5M/edit[/url] [12:44:12 AM] Lord Homogay~♥: [url]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Il_VgLRORojprroidK_4LIdBgfDaNsF1A9aKpdi5g-0/edit[/url] [12:44:28 AM] Lord Homogay~♥: did they both get removed? [12:44:37 AM] [A friend on steam]: {LINK REMOVED} [12:44:41 AM] [A friend on steam]: did that get removed? [12:44:43 AM] [A friend on steam]: and yes [12:44:44 AM] Lord Homogay~♥: yeah [12:44:46 AM] Lord Homogay~♥: woooooooooow[/quote]
[QUOTE=Anti Christ;50841262]fun fact: google docs is blocked on steam. i didn't realize i was undermining steam security by sending a google docs link to somebody.[/QUOTE] Well that's a good one. Wonder who was using Google docs to fuck with Steam accounts to such an extent to get it blocked.
[QUOTE=hexpunK;50841369]Well that's a good one. Wonder who was using Google docs to fuck with Steam accounts to such an extent to get it blocked.[/QUOTE] Probably all those bots that forced me to set my shit to private and start declining all sub-5 leveled friend requests with less than 10 games. [editline]a[/editline] [QUOTE=NeonpieDFTBA;50830715]I believe the road to hell is also a metaphor, therefore most builders would say paving that would be optimistic :v:[/QUOTE] I mean, say we name a 1mx1m section of land somewhere "Hell" and pave a road to it. Shouldn't be [I]too[/I] hard. [editline]6th August 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=LobsterPastry;50839068]As someone already said, this stops people from spamming alts [B][I]cheaply[/I][/B][/QUOTE] How? It's just as cheap to make all your accounts and buy 20 different copies of the game in 30 minutes come summer sale as it is to make a new one and gift a copy every time you get banned.
Fuck this guilt by association bullshit. I have 9 out of 403 friends who are vaced, some of those bans go back literally a decade. Its a permanent mark on your account and while im sure its a good deterrent to those who are thinking about cheating on their main accounts (idiots) this does nothing for the cheaters who just register multiple accounts specifically to make other players miserable.
Welp. I guess those game copies I got to trade for tf2 stuff a while back are gunna stay in my inventory for another 50 eons until this gets cleared up. Ugh.
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