Your kid cannot wait 3 days for some stupid steam item?
I mean, he *could*, but it's unnecessary in my situation. It worked perfectly fine for me for years.
And people wonder why suckers are getting scammed, see the perfect example of a spoiled impatient user above.
Fuck you, dude. I'm not spoiled. I'm a grown-ass adult who takes security seriously and has never had a problem with Steam item trading. I've never had an online gaming account of any kind taken over. Ever. This is overkill, at least in my case.
because email is EASY TO COMPROMISE dumbass, its a HELL of a lot harder to snatch your phone throug the Internet.
Yes, I am aware that it's much harder to spoof 2-factor auth. But if I submit a trade offer, I *instantly* get an email after pressing the submit button. I then use that email to confirm the trade. Even if someone else was simultaneously accessing my gmail account, I'd still see the email. And of course the zillion alerts from Google that my account is being logged into from Ukraine or wherever...
Fine, put a 10 minute wait timer on it if you want to. But 3 fucking days? Insanity. At least let me take responsibility for myself and opt out if I want to.
And please, tell me how my gmail account, with multiple back-up email addresses and recovery options, a frequently-changing password, and takeover alerts out the wazoo, is "easy to compromise". I've only had it for 10+ years and never had an issue...