1) It was a feature which could be used to much comic effect, and a useful extra option that increased ways to express yourself
2) UI and its' features should never be crippled due to user stupidity and error, if the referenced feature isn't somehow inherently flawed,- which it wasn't.
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Is it? People are constantly scammed by keys, should we no longer be allowed to activate a game via key? People are scammed by trading. Should trading and or gift copies also be removed? Its seldom just to remove features because a fools dont know what they are doing or how to protect themselves from scams.
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To be honest, a Steam utility that would allow you to activate a key and have the game sent to your Inventory rather than Library would reduce scams by a thousandfold vs removing /me.
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Your avatar of PB calling Morrow cracks me up every time I see you post :P
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In principle that sounds like a great idea, however you run into the same problems that you do with people that do chargebacks. Buy 20 bundles on a credit card or via paypal, transfer into inventory fodder, trade to unsuspecting users, charge back on the original keys. At least with keys, you know there is a risk, if you allowed users to change keys into inventory fodder youd
1.) Screw over people that drop keys since 1 person with a bot can snatch everything up and deposit them into his inventory or, if some limited number of activations a hr was imposed, into his inventory across multiple mule accounts.
2.) Open up users to "trust", for lack of a better term, dirty gifts. With steam gifts/inventory items, steam knows who bought it, when, with what, and where it was traded. They can reverse the trade. If you threw in dirty gifts, what would happen? Users would assume that since they are now steam gifts that there is no risk. Id bet that scamming would go up a LOT more then it currently is.
Im of the opinion that anyone that does something should know what they are doing and look into it as much as they can to prevent accidents. This is coming from someone that was scammed out of 30 bucks on their first trade attempt even after looking into preventing scams as much as I could.
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These are valid concerns for sure. Steam could always handle these differently.
Maybe have them flagged as "inventory key" rather than Steam Gift, and replace the game's normal inventory picture with a generic image (maybe a key or something) to signify it's difference.
Also, to prevent mass key swiping or abuse, they could limit it to 1 "key to inventory" activation per hour; and limit it to only 1 of a specific game per day. IE: 3 Trine keys would take 3 days to turn them all into INV items.
If correctly handled, it would make trades safer as everything could be done with the Steam trade window.
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Interesting point of view, maybe you're right.
Ok, then I have another idea: To "promote" features like the green text (via Steam official announcements and news, I dunno) so everyone will know about those things and learn how to not be scammed. That or what ageofarmageddon said about keys and inventory, that would fix all problems about "is this key legit or not? It has been used yet?"
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I always hated how a few people can ruin everything for everybody else
Agreed. I mean anything in life can be used for bad if people don't use any common sense.
You put your hand into fire and it was hot? Well no fucking shit... maybe we should remove fire from the earth to make sure other retards don't get hurt by it as well.
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i remember someone using the name of Steam Administrator added me long time ago and tried to scam me with this /me.
he said he need my username and password and email and email password to recover my account or steam completely remove my account.
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/me is disappointed, they take away all the cool features from chat and add none.
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blame the pathetic people that used it to steal accounts
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Many many many people got scammed by this.
Someone added them offering to give them 5€ STEAM WALLET money for a dota or tf2 item. They would use something like /me will transfer 5€ to your Steam Wallet after the trade.
So the victim would give them the item via trade, and then expect to be paid. How do I know this you ask? I was added by 4 diferent people while trying to sell dota items...
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Hahaha that is awesome. I've always known about it but never had someone actually try it on me :P
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B-but its so fun when people try scamming me like that.
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It will be even funnier when it doesn't work anymore and it actually prints out the /me in front of their text. :P
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Doesn't work for me either. Can't see the blue text from my friend (it's like it never happened) and he actually sees the /me in front of my message.
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Never used it, never seen anyone use it other than some screencap from people being scammed.
Removing an useless feature and preventing hundreds of dumb support requests is definitely a good thing.
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I still cannot understand what the /me feature did...
Edit: Oh, I understood it from the screenshot, but I still do not comprehend why it was removed. I mean, scammers have the worst possible grammar, so even if they try to deceive you, you can never fall for "stteaamm soport iz guing tu trensfer moneyz off 10$ aftar trenzektion"... They are complete retards, so the feature should not have been removed in my opinion, but I do not have the word, so... meh.
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Steam has removed the feature “/me” in its new latest update.
For those of you that did not know what this is, it lets you type in green or blue, depending on whether you’re in-game or online.
If you’re wondering why it was removed, it was because of scammers. There was a trick where the scammer would say that the wallet funds would be transferred to your account after you have given your items. Sadly, many users fell for this and as a result, it is now gone.
This is very very sad. :/
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/slashmegone - in tribute to "/me".
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