Steam Making Changes To Trading System
With Steam, it’s incredibly easy to both get a game, share a game, and even trade a game or the trading cards you receive for playing games to your friends or family. However, this has always made it so that if an account becomes hackable, games and cards can be stolen, via being traded away, without the users consent.
As such, Valve has been researching ways to try and limit the number of trades that are made via the hacked accounts. Though numerous attempts have failed, they are now implementing a “Hold” system to try and ensure all trades are legitimate. Valve released a statement on Steam about this, the highlights of the new system they’re using are below. You can read the full statement here.
- Anyone losing items in a trade will need to have a Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator enabled on their account for at least 7 days and have trade confirmations turned on. Otherwise, items will be held by Steam for up to 3 days before delivery.
- If you’ve been friends for at least 1 year, items will be held by Steam for up to 1 day before delivery.
- Accounts with a Mobile Authenticator enabled for at least 7 days are no longer restricted from trading or using the Market when using a new device since trades on the new device will be protected by the Mobile Authenticator.