It was morning on a nice summer day, and a link to a Steam group was sent to me – or so I thought. Still a bit morning groggy I clicked on it, not thinking if the demand for another login into Steam on the web really was just a fake site. Well, the rest is a great little story of me quickly contacting steam, taking photos of one of my game’s serials, sending the stuff hoping they can save the account, all while saying fuck a lot.
I just became a poster child for a classic Steam scam. I just got owned by a punk. Only this time I wish that fucking punk some terrible pain and suffering and not that retributional online teabagging. I don’t think that form of sortie really would send the right message in real life.
All I can do now is check my e-mail hoping they send new login information to me as soon as possible. The next question will be, should I start buying game DVDs again? If we are going to use digital distribution in the future, do we have good counter-measurements against scams like these. Should Valve do anything different or will other smart scams stop users from embracing the digital distribution model? Should the anti-cheat software Punkbuster make housecalls with baseball bats? (Kidding)
It’s going to be interesting to see how quickly the Steam support service will get back to me in this matter. I guess how this crappy situation turns out could be a turning point for me deciding how I will buy and play games in the future.
Oh, and (BTE) Apples, for being so kind and stealing my account – fuck you.
Without going all “Perez hysterical” and doing that whole “I-am-a-human-being-speech” (which in a terrible way is unintentionally funny btw) and how things like this hurts the gaming community, let’s just say that knowing I am not the only one who lost their account, someone will eventually figure out who you are.
What goes around comes around.
MattLive
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