Now users who purchase questionable products from the Steam Store will receive notifications from the store before the transaction. This is how Valve fights the trade in fake game items.
Recall that two games on Steam have already been caught misleading players and selling them fakes of in-game items from popular titles. Climber added a copy of a rare DOTA 2 item to the Steam Store, and Abstractism traded a fake bazooka from Team Fortress 2. Inattentive gamers could purchase such an item and only then discover that it was actually connected to another game.
Valve employee Tony Paloma described on Reddit an alert mechanism to prevent such transactions. Steam will display several pop-up messages on the user’s screen when he tries to purchase an item for a game he has never played. The same mechanism will work for all new games in the store.
We hope that two warnings will be enough for a person to reconsider his decision to buy a fake item. But our measures do not end there, we will monitor the situation, of course.
Valve employee
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