Steam users now have to spend $5 before they can add friends

[mittens]

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3330-IAGK-7663

or do any of these things...

Limited users are prevented from accessing several features on Steam, including but not limited to:

• Sending friend invites
• Opening group chat
• Voting on Greenlight, Steam Reviews and Workshop items
• Participating in the Steam Market
• Posting frequently in the Steam Discussions
• Gaining Steam Profile Levels (Locked to level 0) and Trading Cards
• Submitting content on the Steam Workshop
• Posting in an item's Steam Workshop Discussions
• Accessing the Steam Web API
• Using browser and mobile chat

 

[[Interrogator]]

Neat it'll be interesting to see how people who make throw away accounts will deal with this.

 

[๖ۣۜRumX]

Rip phisers officially

 

[ToTeM]

hmmm thats a nice idea to stop Scam accounts and such, but ofcourse it will also suck for the FTP players

 

[Defibyoulater]

This was a really great idea. Kudos and a raise (from all the 5's spent on activating accounts) to whoever thought of it.

 

[SeizurE]

Valve actually paying attention and doing good things?
What year is it again?

 

[jwso]

Valve actually paying attention and doing good things?
What year is it again?

i am not an expert on this but i think 2015

 

[mike-kirby]

Valve actually paying attention and doing good things?
What year is it again?

It's just so people will report less, so the employees have less to do
This time it's actually good unlike the email confermation for every trade

 

[TEhMAn92]

Retail steam games cannot unlock this
like the orange box
why?

 

[Defibyoulater]

Wait, what about veteran FTP users?

 

[Renegade]

Wait, what about veteran FTP users?

I'm guessing it doesn't matter. They have to spend $5 anyways.

 

[Sargent¥]

hmmm thats a nice idea to stop Scam accounts and such, but ofcourse it will also suck for the FTP players

If an F2P play can't spend 5 dollars, I'd be confused
http://store.steampowered.com/app/113200/ there's the 5, done.

 

[Renegade]

Rebirth is better.

 

[ToTeM]

If an F2P play can't spend 5 dollars, I'd be confused
http://store.steampowered.com/app/113200/ there's the 5, done.

well for one i couldnt, most of my games up untill recently were gifted to me

 

[sov]

Wasn't it before that F2P couldn't add people, but could accept friend requests? I remember it being like that when I first started playing TF2.

 

[KinCryos]

seeing how F2P users can no longer vote on Greenlight and Workshop items, I honestly wonder if anything would be affected if they made it retroactive

 

[mittens]

seeing how F2P users can no longer vote on Greenlight and Workshop items, I honestly wonder if anything would be affected if they made it retroactive

I'm sure it would be but that won't happen. It's probably difficult to change past votes.

 

[Toxik]

Wow a year ago everyone would have lost their shit over this, but now it's not a bad way to deal with the stupid amount of scammers making auto-invite bots

 

[mittens]

Wow a year ago everyone would have lost their shit over this, but now it's not a bad way to deal with the stupid amount of scammers making auto-invite bots

Yeah I think this is the greatest benefit. And yeah if Valve did this a year ago everyone would rage but now it is really a great thing, plus anyone who actually plays games buys at least one game which means they will spend at least $5...