According to Valve, 77,000 Steam accounts are hijacked every month, and the company is trying to fight back.
The company says when they launched Steam Trading, the accounts began getting stolen at 20 times the rate they previously were, and while Valve protected the victims there were plenty of pitfalls for the full trading economy, especially as it diluted the value of rare items.
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I'm an avid Steam user but these "items" are lame and meant for the young chillen as yet another means to preoccupy their time via Steam, even when not playing any games.
It's totally bunk! There is no true initial value to these items. I don't see the hacking likely bec I don't deal in said "items" at all.
My wife's brother made a 100 bucks somehow by selling some knife skin to someone else that really wanted it for some alien reason. I still don't get the fascination.
Now, I'm 42 but shit......really......?? Value in nothing is the theme to THIS young generation. Like Bitcoin too.......value in nothing! I guess that's capitalism at it's finest.
