It would; when you have 1 person and 5 understanding friends... But that would be obvious I think for support.
Less obvious would be like 10-20 understanding friends and be harder to spot.
In the end there will always be a few morons that cheat the system like you have a few rotten apples tainting other apples in the basket....
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True but if it's just handful of friends, you are relying on a certain degree of RNG for the wins. If you start doing rerolls, support is going to catch on. I'm pretty sure people have tried a lot of stuff by this point.
Edit: Nevermind I see how this could be done.
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There's a much more common way to "abuse" the leveling system - through Steam groups. You get a group of people together who all plan to buy the same games, and just have them create and win GAs for the group instead of purchasing them for themselves directly. With the proper group rules and organization in place, everyone gets the games they would have purchased anyways, spending the same amount of money, and they get CV credit for all of it, all without benefiting anyone outside of the group at all. These same people are of course also free to enter all of the public/forum GAs that they want, at their very inflated levels (leech). This is why a lot of giving-minded people and groups look at how much you have gifted in public GAs and your involvement in the community (posts, private/forum-public GAs) when considering people for whitelists and membership, not just the limited numbers reported in SG.
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It can be done, it might have happened. Most cases it's quite obvious and i've seen some that were banned, though they were not intelligent enough to even come close to pull that of.
In any case it would still require all of the friends involved to buy the games themselves, only for one to get the cv, it seems kinda stupid to me
And yes 5 people are required, and not the same 5 each time
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I just thought of this.
I have not done this and would never consider doing this.
Would this work?
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