In order to protect our users from spamming, phishing, and other abuse, Steam prevents some accounts from accessing certain community and social features.
Malicious users often operate using dummy accounts that have not purchased any games, items, or wallet credit. In order to make it more difficult for these malicious users to spam, scam, and phish other users, we restrict access to certain community features until an account has spent at least $5.00 USD in Steam.
What features are unavailable to me?
Limited users are prevented from accessing several features on Steam, including but not limited to:
- Sending friend and group invites
- Requesting access to groups
- Opening group chat
- Voting on Steam Reviews and Workshop items
- Participating in the Steam Market
- Trading Steam Community items (trading cards, booster packs, gems, etc.)
- Posting frequently in the Steam Discussions
- Gaining Steam Profile Levels (Locked to level 0) and Trading Cards
- Submitting content on the Steam Workshop
- Posting in an item's Steam Workshop Discussions
- Accessing the Steam Web API
- Using browser and mobile chat
- Adding public artwork and screenshots
- Adding messages to trade offers
- Creating Steam groups
- Counting towards Steam group membership
