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Every time I try to buy games from Steam I get to play the game for 24 hours, after which my Steam account gets banned and my payment refunded. I can see how t
by ryanlol 9y ago
Every time I try to buy games from Steam I get to play the game for 24 hours, after which my Steam account gets banned and my payment refunded.
I can see how this may deter piracy, but to be honest constantly creating new accounts gets frustrating pretty quickly.
- Jare 9y agoThat is not normal at all, I assume you have contacted Valve customer support and nobody has been able to work out the problem?
- ryanlol 9y agoI tried that once, but the support just replied with some bizarre KYC procedure. https://clbin.com/gCNYu https://clbin.com/gCNYu I'm trying to buy games, not open a bank account.
- stordoff 9y agoAre you using the same PayPal account each time (or similar billing details)? I'd suspect that being linked to a locked account is why future accounts also get locked.
- ryanlol 9y agoI've experienced this with two different paypal accounts I created specifically to use with steam after they stopped accepting bitcoin payments.
- proactivesvcs 9y agoIt's also frustrating when you change your password, the client accepts the change, logs you in, but silently truncates the password. After several weeks of not being able to play my games unless I changed my password first, and receiving nothing like actual customer service from Valve, I've never given them another penny - or any other game dev/service using DRM. Once bitten.
- ryanlol 9y agoValve has ridiculously bad support. Some years ago I was trying to report a fairly serious security issue, they closed my ticket and instructed me to post on the forums instead.