In response to the recent controversy around the Steam ability to allow users to exchange in-game items and the use of this functionality by third-party websites for gambling, Valve announced that it will begin asking these websites “cease operations through Steam” and the ban, effectively, the items betting service.
full statement from Valve explains that the company has no “business relations with any of these sites” and never received them profits.
Erik Johnson, Valve, issued the following statement regarding the company’s decision, which explains how these websites are violating the user agreement Steam:
“in 2011, we added to Steam a feature that allowed players to trade in-game items like a way to facilitate people’s access to the items they wanted, in games with in-game economies.
Since then, a number of betting websites started to take advantage of Steam exchange system, and there have been some false assumptions about our involvement with these sites. We would like to clarify that we have no business relationship with any of these sites. We never received any profit from them. And Steam does not have a system to turn in-game items for real money.
Basically, these websites operate in two ways. On the one hand, they use the OpenID API as a way of proving that users own their Steam accounts and respective items. Any other information you get about the Steam account of a user or provided manually by the user or obtained from the user’s profile in the Steam Community (when the profile is public). On the other, automatically create Steam accounts that do the same type of web calls that individual users of Steam.
Using the OpenID API and do the same web calls that users of Steam to run a gambling business is not permitted by our API, or by our user agreements. We will start sending notices to these sites, asking them to cease operations through Steam, and if necessary, prosecute offenders. Users should probably take into account this information, since they are responsible for managing your inventory of items in-game and its trading activity. “
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