In the past 5-8 years, they’ve gradually moved to a large hands-off approach when dealing with Steam, leaving many aspects to the developers/etc. I think people tend to place a lot more faith in Valve being some overly active entity than they actually are in reality. And even then, Valve only put that in to combat the fact that people were abusing the refund system and taking advantage of games with cards. The only change Valve has put into effect regarding cards has been the 2 hour limit to get the first card drop from any title that has the trading cards feature. Valve doesn’t care and using a program like Idle Master (or its much hushed counterpart, Steam Achievement Manager (which does the same thing with the addition of “cheating” achievements)) is only detrimental to those who forget they’ve left it running and connect to a VAC-enabled game and join a VAC-enabled server while doing so. It’s already widespread (and the method before it existed, where editing a text file found within certain games regarding their Steam app IDs and then running an. If you are concerned that Valve may act on it, then it is better if you don't use the program as there is a chance, as slim as it may be, that accounts may get banned by the company in the future. If that is the case, and you are interested in getting those cards but not in installing those games, then you may find Idle Master useful.Īfter all, you can either sell those cards on the market, trade them or use them to craft badges. If you buy games regularly during Sales you may have dozens or even hundreds of games that you have not played yet that support cards. Idle Master is a handy program for users who have many games on Steam that they have not run yet.
The author believes it to be "pretty safe" but that is not a guarantee that Valve won't act on it. The company could however ban users who use Idle Master in the future. Valve does not seem to care currently about the program. The answer to the second question however is not as easy to answer. In addition, its author is also the author of Enhanced Steam, a long standing browser extension for Steam.
The application has been released on GitHub which means that its source is available. First, is the application itself trustworthy and not stealing your login information, and second, is it safe to use or are you risking an account ban if you use Idle Master? There are two main points of concern that users may have.
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