Valve’s New Policy Aims To Put An End To Phishing Scams

We’ve seen it happen before where scammers and spammers sign up for accounts at email service providers, forums, and so on and use those accounts to spread spam messages or to scam users into clicking links and whatnot. Apparently this is an issue with Valve’s Steam platform which is why the company has recently instituted a new policy that aims to put an end to that.

According to the new policy, it seems that Valve will be limiting the access and features of certain accounts unless they have spent at least $5. Presumably this is to ensure that the user is an actual gamer who might have bought a game or two during their time on Steam, or at least made some in-game purchases even with free titles, like DotA 2 for example.

That being said for those who have their accounts limited, some features that they will not be able to access to includes opening group chats, sending friend invites, voting on Greenlight, Steam Reviews, and Workshop items, participating in the Steam Market, gaining Steam Profile levels, using the browser and mobile chat, and more.

Now there are some users who might be using Steam for more social purposes instead of just playing games and are no doubt a little annoyed by this, but if you have yet to make any purchase, you can always opt to put at least $5 into your Steam Wallet to remove the limited account status.

Tyler Lee
Categories: Gaming
Tags: Steam (Valve), Valve