A gamer reports on Reddit that Steam has blocked his 18-year-old account with thousands of hours of playing time and skins worth 13,000 euros and is refusing to release it. Unless it meets a certain condition.
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How did he lose the account? On Reddit, a user reports that his Steam account was blocked by mistake. After he sold a CS:GO skin worth €450, he received the notification.
Until the matter is resolved, many features will be unavailable to the gamer: purchasing, gifting, trading, product key activation, playing on VAC secured servers, and access to the Steam community.
This effectively renders the account worthless to a collector. There are said to be CS:GO skins worth 13,000 euros on the account, and it also costs around 5,000 euros to get the account “to the point where it is.” He probably means the Steam level, which can be really expensive.
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Steam only wants to release the account under one condition
Why was the account blocked? The reason for the blocking was the suspicion that the account could have been cracked by another person. The gamer apparently attributes this to his recent location changes.
He recently moved to the United Arab Emirates and shortly afterwards went on vacation to Turkey. While on vacation he wanted to play a bit of gaming and logged in on his usual laptop, but with a different IP.
His real problem, however, is that Steam apparently simply doesn’t want to lift the ban.
Why does the account remain blocked? As the gamer reports, he has already contacted Steam support and tried in all possible ways to prove his identity: with his full name, passport and ID, the last digits of his card, PayPal, digital keys, without success .
“I offered to provide everything except a blood sample,” said the now accountless gamer. However, Steam only wants to accept a single form of authentication: a picture of the box with the CD key that he used to create the account in 2005.
The post titled “How I lost $13,000 in video game skins to Gabe Newell [Rant]“ reached over 500 comments. Under this and other posts by the gamer telling the story, many users are complaining about having the same problem.
Even ex-professionals like CS:GO player Bradley “Android” Fodor are not spared.
Overall, Valve seems to be increasingly imposing Steam bans at the moment. Apparently they want to take action against third-party sites that trade in CS:GO skins and gamble with them. However, some of these bans are temporary, such as the one in the case of MontanaBlack:
Steam blocks the account of Twitch streamer MontanaBlack with items worth 55,000 euros in his inventory