What do you think about this change?
Yes, this news was posted several days ago. You are somewhat late with this topic.
It wouldn't surprise me if Valve just wanted to profit off bot creators, forcing them to pay $5 a bot.
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No, it's not worth it for them. The only reason this kind of spamming works is that they can do it on a massive scale, same as with email spamming for example. There's not a lot of people who fall for it but if they do it on a large enough scale, they'll find those few who do.
Not to mention that if people reported an account for spamming previously, it had no effect.
It was just one account of probably thousands... and another one would just pop up instantly. Now reports might actually mean something as creating new accounts would get real costly real quick.
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Maybe if Valve acted on those reports, sure. When they are still around months after, something makes me doubt Valve are really trying to fix the problem.
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Like I said though, previously it wouldn't have mattered anyway. The spammers could just generated X number of new Steam accounts without any consequence. Banning the accounts based on reports would have been pretty pointless. Just swapping out one account for another.
... if they don't take reports seriously now, then I completely agree with you but it's too early to say so far imho.
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Smashing down bot accounts and banning their IP for creation would have helped long ago.
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now they will sell their bot profile for a premium and then create more..
sell-create-sell-create......
Some newbie scammer would buy those, if u are wondering.
Soon we will have bottrades.com and steambotgiveaways.com....
Continue the story
no crap that leads to dead end plz
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Thanks, I couldn't find a thread that mentioned this so I posted mine. Guess I'll still keep mine open for people that may have missed the old thread, like me.
Plus I'm kinda curious on how many people will vote on the second answer, that is how many people is there who aren't scammers and will be affected by this because they for whatever reason haven't spend any money on steam (maybe because they can't spend money or don't have any).
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About a year ago this would have spelled my doom. I had 40 games but all had been obtained through gifts, retail purchases (the majority of them) and the occasional free offer as I had no way of getting my money online to buy from Steam.
Thankfully however I then found a local reseller of Steam Wallet codes and now my library is 566 games or something like that and I smash this requirement.
However I don't see this being a very popular move for people who find themselves in the same position I was formerly in.
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Indeed, it took me a long time to start buying on Steam myself. The first few years were gifts.
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I'm without money so this would have been my doom as well if it wasn't for a friend who bought me steam wallet last year. Since I bought a game using the steam wallet he gave me, I unlocked steam market and could start selling items from games which made me enough money for buying cheap games.
I'm sure there a lot of people that are in the situation you or me were before, and I kinda feel sorry for them. I wonder will they complain about it and if there's a lot of them will steam improvise somehow.
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im getting at least 5+ bot requests per day... soooo yeah good change :)
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When I got my Steam Account, it was for the free copy of Portal 1 they were giving away at the time. Having not spent any money on my account, I had restrictions to what I could do with my account until I added an actual paid-for game. Has that changed, or is the news just that now the paid-for game has to be bought within Steam instead of third-party?
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There are now far more restrictions (sending friend invites, etc aside from just trading on the market) as well as the requirement to actually spend money on the steam store yourself.
I've heard mixed stuff about how this is being applied retroactively - I know at least some people who have only added gifts/bundle keys and have no restrictions but I've seen others complaining otherwise.
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"In an effort to combat people who make and discard free accounts for illegal activities like phishing, Valve has now instituted a restriction on accounts until they spend at least $5 with Steam. Among the features you’ll be locked out from include sending friend invites, participating in the Steam Market, voting on Greenlight games, and opening group chat. Activating a game on Steam that you purchased elsewhere or received as a gift will not remove these restrictions - you need to spend money directly with Steam."
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