• CluckN@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    What do they want Valve to do? It’s security vs convenience. If they added 2 factor authentication and removed F2P it would fix the issue while also pissing fans off.

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      5 months ago

      Honestly? I suspect that a big contributing factor to the bot problem is that there are some items that can be sold for real life money. A simple change to greatly reduce the bot problem is to eliminate this market and let the game be a game.

      But obviously Valve is not going to kill the golden goose. And honestly, I’m pretty sure a big chunk of the people playing the game will also get mad if Valve moves this way. After all, someone is buying all these dumb items. So nothing will be fixed here hahaha. Or probably they will just implement a temporal fix like yet another stupid DRM and call it a day.

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      5 months ago

      When they went F2P it pissed off fans. Any change will piss off fans.

      There should be servers that only permit paid accounts and/or accounts over a certain age.