So I Found This Code: function ShowEscrowExplanationDialog( bAddSteamGuardLink ) { if ( bAddSteamGuardLink ) { var dialog = ShowConfirmDialog( 'What is Escrow?', '<div class="escrow_explanation">After a trade has been accepted by both parties, if either party\'s account has not been secured by the Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator, then to protect against unauthorized trades, the traded items will be placed in escrow.<br><br>During the escrow period, the items will not be available to either user. This allows users who have not secured their accounts to cancel any unauthorized trades and recover their items.<br><br>Canceling all pending and in-escrow trades will place a trading hold on your account for a few days to prevent any further unauthorized attempts to trade away items.</div>', 'Learn About Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator', 'Dismiss' ); dialog.done( function() { window.open( 'http://store.steampowered.com/mobile' ); } ); } else { var dialog = ShowAlertDialog( 'What is Escrow?', '<div class="escrow_explanation">After a trade has been accepted by both parties, if either party\'s account has not been secured by the Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator, then to protect against unauthorized trades, the traded items will be placed in escrow.<br><br>During the escrow period, the items will not be available to either user. This allows users who have not secured their accounts to cancel any unauthorized trades and recover their items.<br><br>Canceling all pending and in-escrow trades will place a trading hold on your account for a few days to prevent any further unauthorized attempts to trade away } return false; }items.</div>' ); So You Tell Me How Valve Can Fuck Up Everything Because This Well Take Out The Sites SweetStakes, Scarp.tf, CsgoLounge, Trade.tf, ANYTHING THAT DEALS WITH BOTS Tell Me What you think In The Replays
Actually, scrap.tf has already gotten bots and written code that will work with escrow, similar to how they were fine after the captcha codes. Steam does work together with trading communities to ensure the newest updates do not mess with their systems. As long as you have escrow while using these communities, there will be no delay.
It won't screw tf2 up, people are just over reacting. Even if you don't have a phone, you can get the app on a tablet or on your computer (if you have a program to download mobile apps) and just put in your phone number there.
it helps prevent scams but there will most likely be ways to get around this escrow plan and if you can't sorry you don't have a smartphone?
There are plenty of sms applications available to download onto your computer, just search "sms application for pc".