Ever since Valve introduced the 7-day trade reversal policy in CS2, my life has been on a steady downward spiral. Not because I got scammed. Not because I lost anything. No, because no one scams anymore.

The scammers are gone.

Do you understand what that means? I used to get friend requests daily. “Hey bro, you trading?” “Hi, I’m Steam Admin, you’ve been reported.” “Can I ask question?” Those were my people. We had rapport. We talked.

Now? Nothing. My friends list is a ghost town. No shady Russian accounts with 17 games in common. No suspiciously polite level 0s. Just silence. You can't scam someone if they can just undo the trade seven days later, so they don't even try. And with that, my social interaction vanished overnight.

Valve didn’t just kill off scammers, they killed off my community. I log in now and my inventory is full, but my heart is empty. There’s no reason to open Steam anymore if no one’s going to lie to me about their “PayPal ready.” I miss the thrill, the dance, the back-and-forth where I pretend to believe them and they pretend to be human.

If you’re reading this and you’re a scammer: please, add me anyway. Try to fake a Discord rep. Tell me your cousin works at Valve. I don’t even care if it’s convincing. I just want someone to talk to.