It was a game reseller thingie, basically it was like this: you buy keys off the market, exchange them for game from a cheaper region, that guy sells them on the same market and gets game's price plus a little extra for him.
With new rule about region locking literally every game in cheaper regions, it seems more like an overkill.
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Yeah, that surely helps against fraud. As well as making steam games untradable for 30 days, so now either buyer or seller is forced to go first, giving another guy a chance to run away and scam him. Really helpful, just like this update.
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Sales don't last forever. And after 30 days, the seller have no reason to sell you the game at sale's price.
Valve just want to force people to buy from their own store by removing every advantage trading has over the "traditional" purchases.
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And how much are those fees?
Keys are ~$2.35 on SCM and $1.85 via paypal. Those must be some huge fees.
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If you can't wait, have the person buy a cheap item that's tradeable, in game item or cards, set the price to desired, then you buy the item or the other way around. They didn't do it to prevent fraud, they did it to stabilize the price of keys. They make big bucks off keys and Valve is tired of Russians and Brazilians devaluing their keys and games cutting into their profits. It has 0 to do with fraud, they don't give a crap if you get scammed.
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