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    Elemental is offline
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    Steam limits functionality of users that don't spend $.$

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    Steam is enforcing limits on community accounts that have spend less than 4,63 EURO, roughly 5 USD on Steam. Not because they want to irritate you, no it's to prevent phishing accounts and all kinds of nastiness.

    Malicious users often operate in the community on accounts which have not spent any money, reducing the individual risk of performing the actions they do. One of the best pieces of information Valve can compare between regular users and malicious users are their spending habits as typically the accounts being used have no investment in their longevity. Due to this being a common scenario Valve has decided to restrict certain community features until an account has met or exceeded $5.00 USD in Steam.


    Here are the new rules they have applied:

    You will need to spend at least $5.00 USD within the Steam store. Some examples of purchases that grant access to these features are:

    Adding the equivalent of $5 USD or more to your Steam Wallet
    Purchasing game(s) that are equal to $5 USD or more from the Steam store
    Adding a Steam Wallet card to your Steam account
    Purchasing a Steam gift that is equal to $5 USD or more from the Steam store (Receiving a Steam gift from a friend doesn't count)
    Each Steam purchase total will be tracked





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    I honestly don't know how I feel about this but maybe I won't have so many bots adding me now :D

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    I think it's a good move honestly, if you're a real person, chances are you're gonna spend $5 minimum on Steam. Been getting constant adds from bots for a while now, pretty annoying.
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    i am so thirsty for dick that i have to hide them in panda's signature just to keep the cravings down

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    raise it to $10 please. I want the bots gone.

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    I get around 2 invites a day from bots and randoms, I approve of this.

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    I say it's about fucking time. Make the spammers and scammers pay a nominal fee to spam their requests.

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    I don't see any issue with this. People go on Steam to game and buy games, not to window shop - and if they are only there to window shop, then the community feature is pretty pointless anyway.

    As long as I stop getting 2 or 3 bot invites a day, I'm happy!


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    Fuck it, raise it to $20.

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    There was already limits on certain features on certain accounts, but im curious about what are they gonna implement now.

    And to all that are suggesting a bigger value, remember that not only scammers create new accounts, newcomers too, so values like 10 or 20 dollars are ridiculous. Expecially 20...

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    Whatever it takes. Rid of those fucking bot invites. No less than 3 a day.
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