Steam accounts must now spend $5 to become "Full Accounts"

Just another Valve money-grabbing method masquaraded as the usual "combating phishing and scam" like the other non-sense they have been pulling lately (trade cooldown,cross region trading ban etc).

It will affect a lot of legit users negatively since they just play Dota or have their games from physical copies.
It will reduce the bot amounts hopefully, but not worth it to screw over the legit userbase.

too late i think

Good for most people, but many people I know can't afford 5$ just to add friends. Its a good strategy for keeping the bots away but they are loosing a lot of customers

Let's see if it works.

Hah! Fuck you, bots and phishers! You won't be bothering me again!

I think this is lame. Scammers and spammers will still find a way to scam and spam you. In the end it will hurt people who are new to Steam or who only purchase retail games. This is about money, not our protection.

I think this update is very bad for all the genuine DOTA2 and TF2 players out there (or other popular F2P game).

I have steam for about 3-4 years, but started buying games only 1 year ago. Before that was only TF2 and I was happy about it.

Im glad theyre trying to cut down on bots, but I have a feeling this is just going to lead to bots using stolen credit cards to get over the 5$ limit..

I still get SO many bots..

I wipe my on $5

I still get bots.. F-A-I-L V-A-L-V-E..

I think Valve should implements something like no private profile until you level up to lvl 20 / or you cant send friend request while your profile is private.

Woot! Had three try to add me today. Burn them with fire and drain their wallets!

I was about to make a thread asking people what they thought about this but noticed yours. I have a few friends that just joined steam and I can't friend them or add them until they have games in their libraries. Now because of this change not only does it have to be a game, but the game has to be $5 worth. I'm glad it may slow down the amount of scammers but we all know it won't stop them, especially if there is still profit to be made with fake profiles. I have mixed feeling about this :P

When will this take effect?

I just got another level 0 invite. I'm about tired of this sheeeit.