To talk with your friends on Steam, you have to pay – CHIP

What came up with Valve? Well, from now on, all accounts that do not have any financial activity, will have limited opportunities to interact with other users of the platform Steam. What does it mean? In short, if not released on Steam at least $ 5, you will not be able to send him invitations to your friends, you lose the ability to set up group chats, add items to the Steam Workshop, voting for the game in the system Greenlight, the use of instant messaging in the browser and on the mobile devices.

Valve logic in this case is simple: if not spent any money, your account may be used in some disreputable way, for which you will meet all those listed above difficulties. But what about the players who play only in respect of free to play and are, for example. It too young to have access to any means to purchase games and other products on Steam? It seems that they oberwie backfire.