For years, new Steam accounts have been unable to add friends, open group chat, vote on Greenlight or the Steam Workshop, write reviews, leave comments, and whatnot until they owned a game. Oh btw - this probably isn't the right/best forum/subreddit to post a question like this in.In their ongoing attempts to crack down on scammers and spammers using throwaway accounts on Steam, Valve have further tightened the restrictions on who can and can't message folks. So 3 things: Buy from reputable site/user, try and get OE (original email) and a steam key code (such as csgo) if available. <- thats what you wanna get, because then they can't take the account back (well they still can, but you don't have to worry cause they most likely won't/can't), as long as you can provide proof that you own the account (which means original email, steam key that you've redeemed in the past) you should be a-okay. Some sellers also provide you with the original email + steam keys used for games on the account. I have purchased several steam accounts in the past from places like epicnpc and other forums and as long as you're buying from a very reputable seller you shouldn't need to worry. It's probably better you just make your own but then it does take a while and you won't get things like the old service medal, badges and whatever. 'safe' sure, but then again it depends what you mean by that. I had a very complicated issue with my main account not too long ago and it crossed my mind that if I were to lose it one day, this could be a viable option to get a replacement with the same overall characteristics. Sorry if the question is silly - I do understand that buying and selling accounts is against Steam's TOS, but there seems to be a big market around that successfully doing it for years and I'd like to get a better idea of what are the risks involved if I ever decide to purchase a Steam account from a third party. It recently came to my attention that many websites / people have interesting Steam accounts for sale (14 year old accounts, have many games or items, wide variety of badges, combination of all those things, etc).Īssuming you buy one of those, the whole transaction goes fine and you immediately change the account email to an email you own, wouldn't it still be possible for the previous owner to just open a support ticket with Steam, send proof of the purchases (or similar) and get the account back in a few days with little effort? Are there any security measures that would guarantee that you'll never have problems with the account after you buy it?

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