So on day I logged in my account and got 2 alerts from steam :

This account has violated the Steam Terms of Service Agreement.

This account has been flagged by Steam Support for violations of the Terms of Service Agreement. Purchasing, gifting, trading, and cd-key activation have been disabled.

Account functionality has been restricted.

If you believe you have received this message in error, please contact Steam Support so that we can assist you.

More info on this topic is available here: Steam Terms of Service Agreement.

and

Your trading privileges have been suspended for 2 weeks for violations of the Steam Trading Policy.

Trading privileges will be restored on 21 July 2012 at 2:26pm

More information on this topic is available here: Steam Trading Policy

I contacted them and they told me crap and told me my account will no be un-banned..

The question is if in the alert it says that my account will be resoterd on 21 july it will be restored or not ? since steam support told me they will never un-ban me

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Have you been trading with a Russian user? Have you been using a VPN to activate games? Have you used a VPN to buy games from another region?

12 years ago
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What did you do?

12 years ago
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I bought an account .. I did not know that is illegal. it will be restored on 21 july or not ?:(

12 years ago
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And the mystery was solved.

12 years ago
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This one almost seemed to solve itself.

12 years ago
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Ah well all well that ends well. Guess we'd better get back to our Batcave.

12 years ago
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I fucking lol'd

12 years ago
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Yes, a very fine comment, sir.

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I want my money back. This one was too easy.

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NO REFUNDS!

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Not knowing if something is illegal does not make it legal, duh.

It's your fault for not reading the ToS.

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I tought the Eu court said it's "techically legal"

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When has Seattle, Washington, Valve's HQ, been part of the European Union?

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Since Europe became annexed by America, duh

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I think we just found the plot to Homefront 2.

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Or Crysis 3.

Or Call of Battle: Company of Honor 6.

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Call of Honor Modern Medal of Crysis 3

12 years ago
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Call of Modern Crysis: Battlefield Medal 3: Deadly Operatives 2

Naturally, with day-1, on-disc zombie DLC.

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Call of Modern Crysis: Battlefield Medal 3: Deadly Operatives 2 Extended Cut DLC coming soon.

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Gold-plated grenade DLC preorder available now!

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Day 1 dlc! Pre-order the collectors edition and get a plot critical character absolutely free (plus an extra charge of $5).

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Pre-order the Hyper Legendary Edition for $399 and get a limited edition hardcover book of creative swear words you can use instead of calling your opponents homosexuals or black people.

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Call of Modern Crysis: Battlefield Medal 3: Deadly Operatives 2 Ultimate Edition including all past DLC for one convinieant price of £500!

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Available only on Origin.

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People would still play that.

I mean, buy that.

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I'd buy it for the insult book alone. It has an entire chapter dedicated to coming up with creative adjectives while insulting your opponent's hairstyle.

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Reference article

The ToS doesn't matter... if you live in the EU, its laws override the ToS of game companies outside of its borders.

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Used games, not accounts.

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No. It's "technically legal" in Europe to sell used downloadable games, not the account. However, the digital license must be deactivated first in order for it to be sold. (reference article)

To answer elix's doubt, this condition would override the laws and regulations of countries outside the European Union.

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I'm no expert in commerce law and international jurisdiction. I suppose doing business in the EU means you have to obey their laws at least with respect to customers located within the EU, makes sense. But still, it's a moot point because the ruling doesn't cover transferring ownership of entire accounts, anyway. It's just restoring parity with the doctrine of first sale capabilities you have with tangible media.

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Exactly. That's what I said:

"No. [...] not the account"

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...yeah, I'm concurring with what you said. I admitted that I could very well have missed the "doing business in the Eurozone = implied jurisdiction" thing... but that it didn't matter anyway for the reason you mentioned.

I'm sorry for not also saying "Like you said," to be clear.

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Yeah, "it's a moot point" threw me off there.

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Not a smart thing to do. Steam has a zero stance on trading accounts, it seems unlikely for it to get unbanned. Even if it does get unbanned you won't know the history of the account so you might flagged with a VAC ban because the seller decided it would have been fun to use hacks once.

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Poate vroiau sa zica ca nu o sa iti ridice banul pana la data stabilita.

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ar fi bine... dar ei au zis ca e permanent deci nu stiu ce sa cred .

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Your account is banned - forever and ever and ever...
Banned from trading - for 2 weeks.

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He can log an an alternative account and still tradehimself games and play them . So hes not tottaly fucked

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Oh, is that right?

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it don't has any logic at all .. So why should I trade if I can't activate the games

12 years ago
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You missed the part where it says "trading is disabled".

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I wonder how will the EU court rulling, that such thinks are illegal (prohibiting users from selling what they own), will affect such situations.

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Considering Valve is a private US company and is out of reach of the EU's jurisdiction...

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Depends on EU legislation. Whether doing business in Europe constitutes submitting to its law. I'm pretty sure that's how it works in quite a few places. Don't quote me on it though.

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Additionally, I doubt either of us are lawyers, but I dare say there's a difference between selling a game (an item of property that can be purchased and, if it was a hard copy, like a book, resold without any problems) and selling an account.

Go ahead and try and sell your drivers' license, lol. (Okay, a license is different from a Steam account, but only because you can't kill a family of three by crashing into them at 110km/h with a Steam account.)

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Challenge Accepted

12 years ago
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Oh shi-

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Well actually, wasn't the EU law change only for digital goods, of which a steam account is not. The games are.

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Closed 12 years ago by mishybmx.