because of the regional and time constraints involved in the transaction, the steam gift brings more trouble than the value it brings. V Society explained this matter on reddit's DOTA2 page, which mentioned the interactive guide of the 215 International Invitational Tournament, but what really involved was all the steam gifts.

DanielJ of V Society: "If you have purchased the interactive guide to the international invitational tournament just released yesterday and wonder why you can't give it away as a gift immediately, I will tell you why."

V Society hates the gift restriction as much as everyone else, but I believe that explaining why this mechanism exists will help you to have a better understanding of the fraud risks around you.

Then the problem comes. The criminals used stolen credit cards to buy interactive guides and then sold them to other players. It will take V club several days to confirm that the credit card was stolen, and at this time, the black goods have already entered the market. Because it is difficult to trace the source, V Society cannot effectively crack down on such black card transactions (black cards use stolen or new accounts for transactions), and at the same time, such underground transactions are very easy to deceive people.

When this kind of event first appeared in 213, V Society thought that the impact of this kind of event on players and the market was not serious enough to force trading restrictions. But unfortunately, like everything involving money, its number is rapidly expanding. At the moment when the method becomes profitable, it will explode in a certain range until V Society can find a way to solve this problem.

In 214, the proportion of interactive guide purchases that were found to be involved in fraudulent transactions could not be ignored. At the same time, V Society also found that there was a huge increase in the number of requests for help for failing to receive trading items and stolen accounts. In addition, credit cards will become a big problem for V Club, because if the fraud rate is too high, V Club will no longer be allowed to accept credit card payments.

Therefore, V Club added time-based trading restrictions to allow V Club time to track and limit the impact of fraudulent activities. When V Club imposed restrictions on users, it knew that this actually affected sales. For example, this means that it is difficult to buy gifts for friends. V club doesn't want to do this either, but V club has no better solution. V club is constantly exploring different ways to solve these problems, because it hopes to prevent fraud without affecting normal users.