[PSA] Trade hold duration will be increased to 15 days

Wii Todd Ed.

I'm literally starting to hound TotalBiscuit's channel. I want to hear him talk about this fucking bullshit.

wait wait wait... so if i do a trade with someone, and even if we both use the authenticator so the trade goes through immediately, a completely legitimate PROPER trade through valves trading system, and the guy i trade with REVOKES the game ive traded, valve WONT undo the trade? EVEN if ive done EVERYTHING they ask to make the trade secure and proper?

Guys, even while Archi is against using his bot on the main accounts, BUT it has 2FA function,which I am using for both of my bots without any problem. The only thing you need is a phone capable of receiving SMS borrow your parents' phone! and fundamental reading skill. No need for emulator or even an Indian $4 smartphone.

Pfff... agreeing with all the points people have said. Although I recently attached the authenticator to my phone it is really annoying for EVERYONE. I know it is supposed to benefit us but the restrictions are just ridiculous.

What the actual fuck. What a load of shit. They put all this bullshit in place, yet they still can't be fucked giving Windows phones their Steam app. Eat a dick, Valve.

Thank you, Valve, for trying to save my money. Now I can spend those money on other sites. Hell, spending the money on a mobile games seems better idea than Steam.

I think it's pretty cool that Valve is taking steps to dismantle its own monopoly by making their competition look better and better. Props on that.

Windows Phone users be like...

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Story of my life day.
Have Windows phone.
Tried WinAuth. Got asked to enter verification code sent to email - did that. Enter code sent to your phone by SMS - didn't get no fucking code. Ages (in internet time) pass - nothing, so I press cancel. ~40 minutes later get SMS from Shteam. Open WinAuth again - need to enter code sent to e-mail. Except there's no fucking new emails; old code doesn't work.
Frustrated, I install BlueStacks (Android emulator). Ok, now I'll just search for the Shteam ap.. have to connect to google ****. Entering passwords, confirmation codes. Finally finish all these stupid quests. Now, just find the Shteam app.. there it is. Ok! Install.. a-f-o-k-i-n-g error. Can't install the goddamn app >:L

if they actually dont give back things because of "scams" now then good, whoever doesnt have mobile auth it just sucks for you i guess. 2016, doesnt have a phone lol

Give your phone to Gaben or you will be a third-class Steam user

So if I don't have a smart/android phone, I'll have to wait 15 days for my market stuff to be sold.

Awesome.

They should've at least given option to disable this.

So, if I want to translate it from Management Bullshit to English, it means:
"Still nobody cares about our mobile app so we now impose further restrictions on anyone who haven't caved in and started using it."
And if you cannot have it because they only released it on two operating systems, then you are now officially classified as a secondary citizen.
The fact that the majority of the people outside the US don't have an Android/iPhone? Who cares, as a Murican company, they only care about Murican customers.

What a fucking joke. I don't have a damn smartphone because it's a complete waste of money. All I need is a simple cell phone so that's all I have and pay for. 2 fucking weeks, good God.

shrug
As long as it doesn't affect authenticator owners, I don't even mind. I have it on phone, but people without smartphone can just get Droid4X or something. You have a computer, right?

Can't wait until SteamGifts starts using mobile authenticator too. Where we have to enter a code each time we join a giveaway.
Well played Valve.
/sarcasm

I have a smartphone, I just straight up don't want to give Valve my mobile number. It's only for friends and family, and I've deliberately kept it clean of any business so I don't receive marketing, political, "research", or other nuisance calls which I do get on my landline phone all the time (despite it being on my country's Do Not Call list since that has too many exemptions. Which is why you only get my answering machine on it and the ringer is turned off). The only time I ever gave it to a business was when I gave it to my ISP technical services department when they were fixing a fault on my landline, and six months later I started getting spam sms's about their other services. I could stop them but with a US company...? Never again.

I do not trust Valve to keep the number safe, especially with recent events, and I also don't trust them not to sell it at some point or spam me, no matter what they say.

Oh, also, the more desperately they try to grab my number, the less inclined I become to give it!

tl;dr: Fuck Valve.

I guess GabeN befriended Putin lately.. someone should warn the CIA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wFKNy0MZQ

Might as well increase trade hold off to a year.
It's complete overkill already.

-dies- XD

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One other annoyance with the Mobile Authenticator, besides the fact that it isn't available for Windows phones, is that unlike almost every other 2FA code generator in existence, there's no way to have it active on more than one phone at the same time.

Google Authenticator, VIP Access, Authy, and numerous other 2FA apps can be setup on multiple phones to work with the exact same accounts, so that if you lose your main phone, or if you want to allow your significant other to have easy access to the same accounts, there's no problem (the only exception I know of is eBay, which unlike Paypal, doesn't allow you to have more than one VIP Access ID active at the same time).

FU Valve

This is how you make people use the mobile authentication. Valve is awesome in finding ways to put their stuff on our devices.

I think it should be called a mobile DLC.