CAPTCHA added to Steam Trading as part of confirmation process

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Valve has added CAPTCHA as part of a confirmation process to Steam trading.

The company said it hopes the addition helps combat malware on users’ machines making trades on their behalf.

“We’re updating trading to include a CAPTCHA as part of confirmation process,” said the service’s John Cook. “We know it’s a bit of a hassle, and we don’t like making trading harder for users, but we do expect it to significantly help customers who are tricked into downloading and running malware from losing their items.”

A few existing third-party trading services have been excluded from the test which checks if you are human, otherwise these would no longer function.

The only issue with the update so far, other than some users being unable to trade, is that current trade offers seem to have been reset.

Others report that the CAPTCHA test is crashing the client. Others report no issues with the trade update.

Hopefully these issues will be quickly ironed out.

Posted: Jan 12, 2015 11:14 pm
Related Forum: PC Gaming Forum

Source: http://www.vg247.com/2015/01/10/steam-captcha-pc-mac-linux/

Comments

DualWieldPosted: Tue. Jan 13, 2015

Musket I hate doing Captcha it gets annoying, If you miss a capital letter its wrong instantly.

And you don't know whether to leave spaces.

If it's a G or 6, HATE THEM!

IntPosted: Tue. Jan 13, 2015

I wonder what will happen to sites like CSGOLounge which uses bots, hmm. Just a thought I don't think this is really necessary but also a good and bad implementation.

OXTPosted: Tue. Jan 13, 2015

If it works then it's okay right..?

-DeanoPosted: Tue. Jan 13, 2015

I don't mind the current version of CAPTCHA that they have, simply clicking the "I am not a robot" box. I hate the text-based ones where the words look like you are on some acid trip or something. They are just difficult to use.

-GoldCoast-Posted: Tue. Jan 13, 2015

This is good, will help scams a lot to be honest.

MusketPosted: Tue. Jan 13, 2015

I hate doing Captcha it gets annoying, If you miss a capital letter its wrong instantly.

TomPosted: Tue. Jan 13, 2015

I've used the steam trading thing not to long ago but that was about it.

GrownPosted: Tue. Jan 13, 2015

I absolutely hate doing these things..

MissPosted: Tue. Jan 13, 2015

They need to find a new thing over CAPCTHA. Sometimes I type those things right and it it tells me I'm wrong.

KatsumiChanPosted: Tue. Jan 13, 2015

TTG_Vape I'm not quite sure how a CAPTCHA could crash the whole client, but... This needs to be fixed lol

When you code something in by copy/pasting certain pre-made parts from a Vendor, it can cause inconsistencies that can lead to client crashes.

I'm certain it's in the works.

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