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Steam Trading Beta

Valve has been making bold moves as of late. Countless issues with EA that they've yet to comment on, venturing into the world of free-to-play games, and now: Steam Trading Beta.

Steam Trading Beta is a new system within the Steam client that allows users to trade with one another. You could trade in-game items between accounts or even as far as trading whole games.

First off, you can only trade with players that choose to "opt into" the Steam Trading Beta. You can simply do this by going to your settings tab in Steam and selecting the "opt into Steam Trading Beta" option. Once you're "opted in," you can trade with anyone of your friends that have also "opted in" or with anyone within a group chat you happen to be in.

As of right now the only game you can trade in-game items from is... you guessed it...Team Fortress 2, but Valve has plans to add this feature to Portal 2, and several other third-party titles as well in the future.

Right now you can only trade games that haven't been opened on a user's PC, so that means if you got a gifted copy of Advent Rising, then you know what you're giving away for Christmas.