There was a discussion going at the forums of notebookreview.com about how someone bought CoD5 off of Ebay for $35, the Steam version. The guy gifted it to him, and a little while later Steam disabled his account, his whole account with all his games he purchased previous.
Not fair or just IMO, especially since he has proof of where he bought it from and it seemed legit at the time. The problem was that Steam's agreement basically says that they have the power to do this, especially since the game he bought was most likely purchased with a stolen/illegal Credit Card. It's tough, but it didn't seem like he was going to get his account.
Later, someone said he was cheating in CS:S only for half an hour and got his whole account banned. I said good riddance to any hacker, and I didn't mind that he got his whole account disabled. Others disagreed with me though, saying that just because he hacked in one game he shouldn't have all his games taken away from him... just that one game.
So what do you think of Steam's power? It is a little frightening what they can do, since you are basically only getting licenses from them which they can revoke at will. For the awesome deals they have though, I'm willing to try and keep my nose clean and keep all these awesome $5 deals. It really doesn't seem that difficult to keep your account. I've had mine since 2003.
BTW I have $600+ worth of games with probably over 50 games on my Steam account.
Not fair or just IMO, especially since he has proof of where he bought it from and it seemed legit at the time. The problem was that Steam's agreement basically says that they have the power to do this, especially since the game he bought was most likely purchased with a stolen/illegal Credit Card. It's tough, but it didn't seem like he was going to get his account.
Later, someone said he was cheating in CS:S only for half an hour and got his whole account banned. I said good riddance to any hacker, and I didn't mind that he got his whole account disabled. Others disagreed with me though, saying that just because he hacked in one game he shouldn't have all his games taken away from him... just that one game.
So what do you think of Steam's power? It is a little frightening what they can do, since you are basically only getting licenses from them which they can revoke at will. For the awesome deals they have though, I'm willing to try and keep my nose clean and keep all these awesome $5 deals. It really doesn't seem that difficult to keep your account. I've had mine since 2003.
BTW I have $600+ worth of games with probably over 50 games on my Steam account.