Free exchange on Steam

Steam is a popular game distribution service worldwide. The main advantage of this platform is the ability to install items purchased in the Steam store on any computer. In fact, it is a combination of three services: a gaming platform, a social network and an online store. Another nice thing - Steam is absolutely free. That is, you only pay for the application, and then you can dispose of them at your discretion. You can buy in Steam using the popular payment systems QIWI Wallet, WebMoney and Yandex.Money.

Steam is a simple swap procedure.

Let me play my game

Recently, Valve introduced a new exchange service on Steam. It is called Family Sharing. With it, you can connect to your profile of friends, and they can play your games with your profile. How to exchange games in Steam? To do this, you need to connect a friend's computer to his account, create a family, and he will be able to install a copy to himself. The only “BUT” is the impossibility to play the same application at the same time. If the account owner has started to play, you will receive a warning about leaving the profile.

IMPORTANT. To exchange games on Steam, you need to make sure that the game purchased in this system supports Steam exchange. In this program, you have the opportunity to store not only purchased items, but also the games themselves. You can install them on your own or donate to someone else.

As with any social network, you can make friends and chat. There is an opportunity to make offers to change things on Steam both to friends and strangers. Fortunately or unfortunately, in March 2016 the administration of the platform tightened the requirements for trade in things in Steam. This is caused by the increased incidence of fraud, when players, giving things, did not receive money for it. Steam introduced user authentication through linking accounts to mobile phones.

How to change things

You can send messages with trades in Steam to both friends and non-friends. In the list of friends choose a person with whom you plan to change. Click on it and in the dialog box choose “offer exchange”.

This is a long button at the top of the dialog box. After you choose things and send. As soon as a friend accepts the offer - the trade is completed You can also write a message or send a smile in the same window.

There is another way: you need to right-click on the friend with whom you plan to change. In the pop-up window, select Invate to trade (offer exchange).

After that, choose a game from the list in which you plan to change things. Click on Ready to trade (ready for exchange) and finally click Make trade (swap).

As in the first case, a friend needs to take your trade.

ATTENTION. In Steam, you can change while being offline. The principle is the same, the person will receive a message with an offer of exchange. To complete the transaction, a friend needs to click "accept the offer."

We are changing without adding to friends

Swap things in Steam may not be added to friends. Since 2013, you can send offers to sell and exchange things using the OFFLINE TRADE OFFERS system. For this, a unique link is generated that can be sent to players. It gives access to backpacks. In order to generate it, you need to go to your inventory and click on TRADE OFFERS there we look for the words WHO CAN SEND ME TRADE OFFERS.

At the bottom of the page you will see a link that you want to copy and publish.

Please note that anyone who is registered in the Steam system can follow the link. You can send a link in different ways: posting on forums, in a chat or by personal messages. You can also drop the offer to change things on Steam to players who have allowed this feature in their account. This is done at the entrance to the profile of the person with whom you want to change. Next to “Add as Friend” there is a “More” button. If a person has opened access to such offers, you can trade with him.

You can confirm the exchange on your mobile phone. To do this, you need to download the Steam add-on (ESCROW). With it, you can not only take offers, it provides additional protection against hacking.

Since 2016, Steam has introduced new security rules for transactions. Without authentication from a mobile phone exchange takes 72 hours. Steam (ESCROW) you need to download to your phone, activate it and bind to your mobile number. The activation process takes 7 days. These restrictions will not affect you if you decide to buy things on the market. If your mobile phone model does not allow you to install the application, you can install it on your computer by downloading the Android emulator.

All these conveniences and inconveniences are caused by the care taken by the Steam management about their customers and the safety of their inventory. The rest is a convenient platform for the interaction of players in various games.