What do you guys think of my situation though: My brother has a Steam account that he uses to play MW3 on, but for the free achievements like link with Facebook and the free 2 play games he gets coal. Would it be alright to put it all on my account so I can trade said coal to other people for games? He's had the account for several months.
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I would give 1x coal away for 1x team fortress 2 :>
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it'll be funny when people who have farmed coal and gotten a butt load of games out of it get their accounts banned after all their hard work yadadadada thats if they get banned or steam should change all their coal and games and coupons they won into 1% off hl2 deathmatch or something funny
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They'll be able to see that they are accounts owned by different people, just by looking at the activity. And that they were made before the event, which will help.
They have no way of knowing whether it was you doing their achievements, or your brother using your computer to do them for himself for some reason.
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Reinforcements have arrived: Hammerban's inbound.
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http://steamcommunity.com/id/ca89ra/friends
Looks legit
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It was not too hard to solve this problem from the beginning:
1- Make coal nontradable
2- Make holiday gifts ungiftable+nontradable
3- Remove useless coupons from the system
Today I saw on that russian forum csmania using google translate, they were writing how they got banned while coal farming, some of them had 500+ alts...
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Nontradable gifts would make the entire idea of trading your unwanted gifts pointless. The sale event brought in a lot of new customers and why would they want to limit those users? The entire idea of people exploiting the system should have been obvious from the start and they should have had something to prevent that before the sale event started. Unless they want the same to happen next time around.. if they even do it again.. I can probably see them sticking to a redeem booth instead and that was terrible.
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His main account http://steamcommunity.com/id/MarkGTX580
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so is it people with multiple penny accounts being banned or people using sam being banned?
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The people say theres nothing against it in the rules BUT there is a line saying: Valve may terminate your Account or a particular Subscription for any conduct or activity that Valve believes is illegal,
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People are stupid
Contest and Sweepstakes
"Entry open to any user holding a Steam account in good standing with at least ten (10) games in the accountâs Wishlist. No payment is required; a Steam account may be established without purchase. One manual entry per Holiday Sale Objective, one Steam account per entrant, and one Epic Holiday Giveaway win per user"
There's also this one for the sneaky clever women using SAM/etc in order to force-unlock the achievements due to laziness.
"(d)Entries generated by script, macro or other automated means will be void."
I'm mostly sure only people seriously abusing the whole alternate account exploit (20 accounts or more) are getting punished. So there's not much to panic about; but it's clearly in the rules that you're not allowed to do any of that.
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apparently they get their accounts back, http://s017.radikal.ru/i444/1112/90/06ae3fab4b52.jpg
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Not only banned. Valve just sent an assasin to kill you, burn your house and delete porn from your secret folderz!
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Seems like coal farmers (people with a lot of alts for the sole purpose of coal and games from the winter event) are starting to getting ban from Steam.
Your thoughts on the matter?
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2402567
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2402963
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2393269
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