Steam groups disabled? (TradersGuild, Cheap Ass Gamer...)

They broke Valves rules. Fair.

This nifty site works for most sales clicky, add in the nice in we have here with that great guy from Amazon... Most legit info is available here.

As long as they leave my group alone, i don't care

Sad times~ :(

So, wonder when redeeming keys on steam becomes impossible.

I'm surprised CAG group was disabled, I don't remember any paypal trading or advertising deals from dodgy keysites going on in there.

Actually a lot of these groups were disabled because the posters thought it was clever and wise to use referral links for amazon deals and GMG. I know for a fact kriss-c(sp?) was using such referral links to monetize all the deals found. It was a genius way to gain money on the side, these referrers would use link shortening to hide their referral links, a dam shame they are not smart enough to outsmart Valve and the prying eyes of reporters.

Valve likely closed the groups because of this. So thank you kriss-c and others, your greed contributed to the destruction of established groups such as hookups and traders guild.

You may call this speculation of the reason for the groups closure, but I bet it's not very far from the truth.

If you think critically about the situation, Valve has nothing to gain from closing the group, and a hell of a PR problem from closing the groups. The current policy of Valve is no referral links is allowed, it is likely that this rule extended to the steam groups.

the groups are back online and from what i read, valve has said to the mods of these groups that the groups cannot be used to make paypal trades