Why hundreds of thousands of bots descended on one Steam arcade collection Trading card snafu let players essentially mint money from a free download.

Last Epoch bots and real-money trading force Eleventh Hour Games to disable Steam family sharing, as abuse of it was "beyond excessive." ...

The bots were made by people who use them to idle in games that drop St eam trading cards, which bot users then sell on the Steam marketplace to turn a cash profit.

Valve has announced changes to the way Steam issues trading cards to stop nefarious actors from gaming the system with fake games.

Steam's trading card bots have brought massive player counts back to Geneshift The idle bot army continues to shift the fortunes of one indie game in particular Dustin Bailey Published: Jan 31, 2019 ...

Valve Shuts Down CS:GO Trading Bots Valve has always had a bit of an unusual relationship with item trading on their Steam platform.

People are taking advantage of Steam's trading card system by creating fake games, collecting cards from those games with bot accounts, and selling them to collectors for profit. Valve is not ...

Steam is making significant changes to its Trading Card system to combat fake games and help the store's discovery algorithms. Trading Cards were introduced in 2013 as small collectibles that the ...

Customers can sell the cards on the Steam Community Market. In a Steam Blog post in May, Valve said it had found that some crafty developers were engaging in Steam Trading Card profiteering.

Valve will make some key changes to Steam's trading card economy in an effort to stop "asset flippers" from making cash on badly optimized game clones.