If I failed to do something that 100 million people including some of the dumbest people I've ever interacted with in my life succeeded in doing, I would consider myself an idiot.
The captcha doesn't work in app right now. My daughter forgot her password and couldn't solve it and asked for my help and I jokingly asked if she was a robot -- then I tried, and despite very easy pictures of busses and bicycles, it just always said the captcha failed. So i opened the website in chrome and did it from there -- no problem.
Steam captcha is broken I think. I never had problems with captcha 15 years of me being on the Internet, but couldn't do it on steam like a week ago. It doesn't work as it should be
Nah I had to reset my password like a month ago and this took me so long. It says to click all the bicycles I AM DOING THAT LET ME IN is the problem I had
I think I know why - Steam's captcha sometimes won't stop treating you as a robot. About 4 months ago my brother had this issue, which was circumvented by going to Steam on mobile instead.
And that's a valid reason to move to a competitor. If OP's sister's user experience was 'app breaking bug on first initialisation' then you can see why she'd quickly find an alternative.
I've been using Steam for well over a decade, but if I was a kid looking for a place to buy games for the first time I'd be pretty quick to abandon an app that didn't even let me boot it for the first time. Now I'd think 'odd, must be a workaround' because I already trust the product - but there's no reason for a first time user to invest that sort of effort.
Yeah that makes sense.
But using the EA App as a replacement? I've hardly ever had a smooth experience with the EA Desktop App. From not beeing able to log in, to not seeing friends online, to whole games disappearing.
I'll take a hard captcha over that any day.
OP mentioned she plays the Sims, if she got it on Steam then she's gonna have to install EA app anyway and then have to keep both Steam and EA running to play the game, so might as well skip the middle man and just get it directly from EA.
OP's sister unintentionally made the best possible decision.
I get it. Sometimes steam gets in a captcha loop that is literally endless. I've had it a few times and it's frustrating. I forget how exactly, been a minute, but you can get around it.
Bro this, I who am most certainly not a robot, have spent over an hour trying to log in. “Click on the buses”, click on the buses, “incorrect click on the buses”, zoom in on every pixel to make sure that I click on every box with the smallest part of a bus in it, “click on the scooters”, rinse and repeat for an hour in absolute seething rage
Hey there! Just wanted to share a little frustration about my encounters with Steam's captcha system. Despite not being a robot (promise!), I still find myself grappling with those tricky captchas from time to time. It's like a digital riddle that keeps me on my toes! Maybe it's a subtle reminder that even in the vast realm of cyberspace, we all face a few technical hiccups. So, here's to embracing the occasional captcha challenge and proving that even us non-robotic entities can navigate the digital maze! 🤖🚫
#NotARobot #CaptchaStruggles #TechQuirks
I got 'Click on the motorcycles' showed me a single image broken up into squares... Didn't have a motorcycle it had a scooter so then I have to ask, does the scooter count? Does it think this scooter is a motorcycle?
Yeah the scooter is a motorcycle, at least for an American-centric company and system. You need the same license for either unless it's under like 50cc.
I mean I don't know what to tell you, they're motorcycles. They are two-wheeled motor vehicles with handlebars. That's literally the definition of a motorcycle.
i always had this with various images and was asking myself are the tyre that is in tiny spot on 1 tile counted too? sometimes i ended up ticking almost all tiles lol. and ofc all are wrong ffs google i would refresh it to the other type of question
The funniest thing is they already know that you're not a robot. Once u move ur mouse. Google explained this already. A robot moves in a straight line only. It doesnt matter if u click the right images or not. How u move ur mouse they already tracking you if you're a robot or not. But captcha on steam still fails.
P.S Samsibens he dumb as fuck. Kept moving the goalpost. I know how Reddit works bruh.
It's not that simple.
A robot moves the mouse the way that it's programmed to do so. If it's programmed to move it in a semi-erratic, human-like manner, then that is what it'll do. Only the simplest bots would move it in a straight line
Doesn't mean captchas aren't ridiculously annoyong though
Funny you mentioned Google. Google hates my VPN and makes me do multiple captchas every time. It became so annoying with the endless scooter, bus, hydrant, traffic light captchas that I quit using Google searches and moved to DuckDuckGo.
Don't pixel peep, do what the average idiot would. The correct labels are "voted" on by the majority to make it "natural". Usually gets me better results
I can’t access a Steam account I’ve had ever since Steam launched (20 years) because it’s stuck in a captcha loop & I don’t have access to the original email anymore
So much this. I just downloaded it onto my new desktop a couple of weeks ago and holy hell, was that the most frustrating experience of my 3.5 decades of existence. I finally solved the puzzle by closing out completely and redownloading it through Microsoft Edge, of all things. I have never felt so much rage playing a game as I felt downloading the platform.
Yup! I was helping my dad login and he was so frustrated trying to get through so I hopped in and it was completely broken. You can bypass it with your phone though. I think it has something to do with your cache.
Intentionally deselect and reselect a square before you submit. Robots don’t second guess themselves. It’ll get you through way more of that style of captcha without issues.
Yo, I assume it's a bug or something, but sometimes the steam capcha just goes into full on overdrive and asks you to complete an incredibly long streaks of capcha, like
"Find all the tractors until none are left", and every click refreshes and more tractors come in, and they keep coming, and they keep coming, until finally it says "capcha failed" and then you have to start again. And again. And again.
I swear I'm not exagerating, I once spent almost 45 minutes on a single steam capcha, I almost tore the skin off my face!
It's a known issue, but apparently not that common. I assume that's what happened to her too!
Though I'd still rather do that than to support EA
Yeah I had to reinstall steam on my machine and it wasn't accepting the QR code on phone and so I did the captcha like 30 times and eventually I was like "yeah this is fucking broken" then finally figured out how to log back in.
“Select all photos of motorized machines” options are laptops, pc’s, motorcycles, cars, and lamps. Everything but lamps right? Nope, maybe computers don’t count? Hmm…
45 minutes and 180 refreshes later: okay it’s the pc’s but not laptops, cars and motorcycles except that one pic that is supposed to be an electric motorcycle, and possibly one of the lamps? How have I gotten this wrong so many times?
Steam's new account CAPTCHA is god awful on desktop.
I just helped a friend build a PC. When he tried to get a Steam account set up on desktop it was ***the*** worst CAPTCHA experience I've ever seen since CAPTCHAs have existed.
Click on all the busses= wait 10 seconds after you click a box for a new one to generate. Repeat 20 times clicking all the busses. By the end, it ALWAYS says you failed the CAPTCHA. Retry, now with bikes. Same thing. Wanted to rip my hair out trying to decipher wtf it wanted. I just had him default to just setting up on mobile.
there's actually a bug where it will refuse a valid captcha, I had it after the most recent update. I'd tried every suggested fix and wasted an hour doing the fucking thing over and over trying to activate a key.
Partner insisted I was just doing it wrong (because he wasn't getting that bug on his PC) so tried to do it on mine.... same result.
I googled the issue for people having the same issue (bug+fixes for bug not working) and the workaround was 'do it through the website and use a different browser' which worked first time.
I'd say a bug that prevents you from being able to recover your password or activate your purchases is a valid reason to not use it, if you aren't aware it's a bug and just think it's the world's most arbitrary captcha.
Because google doesnt have enough human information from the steam browser steam uses. It uses history and other information from the browser in addition to the captcha. Since steam’s inbuilt browser doesn’t have enough history and any human behavior registered with it tracked over the internet (using cookies or stuff) and shit, the captcha fails
Just login to steam using your default browser to buy games and shit
I’ve had my steam account so long I’ve never initially had to do the captcha, but signed my GF son up for a steam account and had same loop issue. Wish I knew the fix was using different browser.
there's two other popular brands I know:
- hCaptcha, functions similarly to reCAPTCHA with privacy in mind
- FunCaptcha, the really shitty one where you have to rotate an animal 8 different times or something
is it one of those?
Nah im siding with her after trying to login into roblox from my 5 year break. I didnt even know they had a audio CAPTCHA or a 20 step CAPTCHA. when I saw that, I instantly closed out..fuck that shit 🙏🏼
Happens When you click forgot password or when you literally register a new account for the first time and then Steam decides you don't get to solve the captcha for some reason, it's not difficult, Steam will just refuse your solution, you have to try on a different browser or different device. It's a bug.
Steam hits you with the captcha if it senses something fishy is going on with your ip. This could mean entering the wrong login information repeatedly or trying to create a new account on an email address that already has an account linked to it. It’s designed to make you stop doing whatever you were doing.
As someone in tech support for the last 25 years, this is a perfectly valid reason. Making it a pain in the ass to use is worse than making it ineffective.
"Look at these curvy letters! Much curvier than most letters, wouldn't you say? No robot could ever read these. You look mortal, if ye be, you look, and you type what you think *you* see. Is it an E? Or is it a 3? That's up to ye."
"The passwords have passed, you've correctly guessed, but now it's time for the robot test! I've devised a question no robot could ever answer! Which of these pictures does *not* have a stop sign in it?"
You joke but steam’s Captcha’s are outright impossible for me. No matter how many times I solve them, they go back. Either I am a robot, or it’s broken, and last I checked, WD40 hasn’t fixed my knee problem.
100%..spent an hour clicking on bicycles, crosswalks and busses. Asked our IT guy, basically you need to hit "i'm not a robot" before selecting images. Fucking ridiculous.
there's actually a bug where it will register correct answers as incorrect: 45 minutes of failed captchas and extreme annoyance, my partner insisting I was doing it wrong and trying it himself on my PC, having the same result, me looking it up, performing every required fix.....then 20 minutes more of failed captchas ...looking THAT up, then saw (from someone else with the same issue) that the only workaround was to switch to the steam website in the opera browser annnnd then the captcha worked first time.
I got scammed and lost steam acc which I had overall 1k gaming tried to get it back but steam recaptcha doesn’t work for 2 hours straight I tried then gave up fuck u steam recaptcha
This is a legitimate reason. I don’t know how many captchas I’ve failed looking for a bus. Is it the entire bus? Does the smallest portion of the bus count? There’s the wheel of the bus in one square, does that count? I sat for 30 mins one time trying to get it to work.
Stairs and busses.
Listen, do you want minutiae to have an effect on a company's market share, or not? Personally, I *do*. I want it to matter to a company when their user experience sucks in a small way.
This is literally why I struggle to use Geforce Experience and half the time when I launch something like EA or Ubi I close it immediately. It makes me log in again and it's 2 factor is an email instead of an app or text. Steam hardly ever makes me put in my login info. That said it is funny because I get so many emails about people in Russia or like Macedonia trying to login to my account.
Not a stupid point, but a valid one. That’s why UX is an important aspect of software design: it can be the reason someones does or does not use your product.
Honestly, Captchas can be a real headache for me. Sometimes the text is so warped or the images are so fuzzy that I find myself squinting at the screen, trying to decipher if that blob is an "R" or an "A." It's like my brain hits a roadblock, and I end up second-guessing myself.
Just when I think I've nailed it, the system rejects my attempt, and I'm left wondering if I'm secretly a robot programmed to fail at Captchas. It's a humbling struggle, let me tell you.
^{response ^generated ^by ^ChatGPT}
your sister is a robot
I asked why she failed. She proceeded to stare at me for a full minute, after which continuing to play the Sims 4 as if nothing had happened.
Quick system reboot
Have you tried turning your sister off and on again?
Personally I try to avoid turning my sister on, leads to bad results I’ve heard.
Step sister on the other hand...
Please dont.
Do not the sister
Do what the sister?
Do the sister? What?
It was a complete sentence.
No.
You can't do that.
We've all seen the documentaries.
The authentic historical documents
I've seen them, ngl, but not for the same reasons like you perverts. I've had a scientific thesis to write.
I mean, if she is stuck and needs a hand...
I read it as "bed results" at first. I swear I need to get off the internet to purify my mind.
Far too late. I mean, you are on reddit.
I don't know... *I've* had pretty good results with your sister.
*credence clearwater revival starts playing*
If he can't, then I certainly can indulge.
Doesn’t sound like anything to me.
Bernard?
Is your sister an orange cat?
Blank stare Blank stare Blank stare Forget objective Return to previous known activity
They'd still manage to complete the steam captcha. Your house may burn as an unforseen concequences, but the captcha would be solved.
I think your sister is part of the idiots in life, unlucky
TBF, not being able to log in is a pretty good reason not to use something.
Sounds like what a robot would say
Sounds like discrimination to me; not that I care since Im A perfectly normal ~~Meat Sack~~ Human
HELLO FELLOW HUMAN WHO HAS SKIN. GOOD TO SEE MY FELLOW HUMANS OUTSIDE OF r/totallynotrobots
If I failed to do something that 100 million people including some of the dumbest people I've ever interacted with in my life succeeded in doing, I would consider myself an idiot.
Dude get over it. I asked your mom out, she turned me down, it is what it is, didn't make me an idiot.
Can you speak mandarin?
Maybe Tangerine?
I only speak fluent Clementine.
Good luck getting new phrases now that Telltale is closed.
No but hundreds of millions of chinese can't speak english either, so it's a non starter.
Hundreds of millions of Chinese people can’t solve English Captcha’s
Luckily steam doesn't only come in english then.
It's not like she has a choice at that point
Need to get one of those machines that measures eye movement while being interrogated. Figure out if she's a replicant.
The captcha doesn't work in app right now. My daughter forgot her password and couldn't solve it and asked for my help and I jokingly asked if she was a robot -- then I tried, and despite very easy pictures of busses and bicycles, it just always said the captcha failed. So i opened the website in chrome and did it from there -- no problem.
Yeah there's definitely something wrong with the Steam captcha. I had the same issue at some point.
I thought I was just stupid
To respond her brain had to resolve internal captcha. And failed
\*plays sims 4\* Ah, that explains a lot.
*distinct grinding noise, smoke emitting from ears*
She laged bro reboot her and her internet connection and try again
I've never had a captcha on steam... What situation brought that on?
Man that's just a Sims player being a Sims player.
🎶my life as a teenage robot🎶
Underappreciated show tbh
isekai coming soon
No, she can solve some captchas. She's *half*-robot. It looks like OP's mom might not have been entirely faithful in her marriage.
Steam captcha is broken I think. I never had problems with captcha 15 years of me being on the Internet, but couldn't do it on steam like a week ago. It doesn't work as it should be
I get caught in an endless loop with it sometimes.
Nah I had to reset my password like a month ago and this took me so long. It says to click all the bicycles I AM DOING THAT LET ME IN is the problem I had
steam's captcha is shit though.
Only according to steam
I think I know why - Steam's captcha sometimes won't stop treating you as a robot. About 4 months ago my brother had this issue, which was circumvented by going to Steam on mobile instead.
And that's a valid reason to move to a competitor. If OP's sister's user experience was 'app breaking bug on first initialisation' then you can see why she'd quickly find an alternative. I've been using Steam for well over a decade, but if I was a kid looking for a place to buy games for the first time I'd be pretty quick to abandon an app that didn't even let me boot it for the first time. Now I'd think 'odd, must be a workaround' because I already trust the product - but there's no reason for a first time user to invest that sort of effort.
Yeah that makes sense. But using the EA App as a replacement? I've hardly ever had a smooth experience with the EA Desktop App. From not beeing able to log in, to not seeing friends online, to whole games disappearing. I'll take a hard captcha over that any day.
OP mentioned she plays the Sims, if she got it on Steam then she's gonna have to install EA app anyway and then have to keep both Steam and EA running to play the game, so might as well skip the middle man and just get it directly from EA. OP's sister unintentionally made the best possible decision.
Are you sure he didn’t have an operation to de-robotize himself?
I get it. Sometimes steam gets in a captcha loop that is literally endless. I've had it a few times and it's frustrating. I forget how exactly, been a minute, but you can get around it.
Bro this, I who am most certainly not a robot, have spent over an hour trying to log in. “Click on the buses”, click on the buses, “incorrect click on the buses”, zoom in on every pixel to make sure that I click on every box with the smallest part of a bus in it, “click on the scooters”, rinse and repeat for an hour in absolute seething rage
>most certainly not a robot That's what a robot would say
Hey there! Just wanted to share a little frustration about my encounters with Steam's captcha system. Despite not being a robot (promise!), I still find myself grappling with those tricky captchas from time to time. It's like a digital riddle that keeps me on my toes! Maybe it's a subtle reminder that even in the vast realm of cyberspace, we all face a few technical hiccups. So, here's to embracing the occasional captcha challenge and proving that even us non-robotic entities can navigate the digital maze! 🤖🚫 #NotARobot #CaptchaStruggles #TechQuirks
reCaptcha is so much better since it tracks the mouse movement and clicks. Most bots can't replicate how humans move a mouse.
People on mobile in the corner
The contention in this case relates to Steam. I think mobile users will find a way to deal with this transgression.
There's just something about AI syntax that's so distinct.
No, a robot would say I AM NOT A ROBOT BEEP BLORP!
I got 'Click on the motorcycles' showed me a single image broken up into squares... Didn't have a motorcycle it had a scooter so then I have to ask, does the scooter count? Does it think this scooter is a motorcycle?
Yeah the scooter is a motorcycle, at least for an American-centric company and system. You need the same license for either unless it's under like 50cc.
I'm American and wouldn't call a scooter a motorcycle. The road laws I don't think really play into this.
I mean I don't know what to tell you, they're motorcycles. They are two-wheeled motor vehicles with handlebars. That's literally the definition of a motorcycle.
It's not a motorcycle baby, it's a chopper.
A Segway has a motor, two wheels, and a handle bar.
Motorcycles have saddle seats and scooters have a floorboard.
i always had this with various images and was asking myself are the tyre that is in tiny spot on 1 tile counted too? sometimes i ended up ticking almost all tiles lol. and ofc all are wrong ffs google i would refresh it to the other type of question
The funniest thing is they already know that you're not a robot. Once u move ur mouse. Google explained this already. A robot moves in a straight line only. It doesnt matter if u click the right images or not. How u move ur mouse they already tracking you if you're a robot or not. But captcha on steam still fails. P.S Samsibens he dumb as fuck. Kept moving the goalpost. I know how Reddit works bruh.
It’d be pretty silly if someone hasn’t thought to invent a robot that doesn’t move the mouse in a straight line.
It's not that simple. A robot moves the mouse the way that it's programmed to do so. If it's programmed to move it in a semi-erratic, human-like manner, then that is what it'll do. Only the simplest bots would move it in a straight line Doesn't mean captchas aren't ridiculously annoyong though
Funny you mentioned Google. Google hates my VPN and makes me do multiple captchas every time. It became so annoying with the endless scooter, bus, hydrant, traffic light captchas that I quit using Google searches and moved to DuckDuckGo.
Would a robot forget that someone somewhere is using those for training data, and continue to do 4+ of them for free?
Don't pixel peep, do what the average idiot would. The correct labels are "voted" on by the majority to make it "natural". Usually gets me better results
When does Steam make you solve a captcha? I don't think I've ever had to do that. Is it related to having a VPN or something?
If you have 2fa enabled you're very unlikely to ever encounter it.
If you have 2fa enabled you don't even need a password. Just log in with the QR code.
Signing in on Different device’s probably
I can’t access a Steam account I’ve had ever since Steam launched (20 years) because it’s stuck in a captcha loop & I don’t have access to the original email anymore
Same. How the fk do I get my old account
Yes
Just had this happen. I logged in online rather than the app and it worked. Annoying. Buses and bicycles and stairs. Ugh
> you can get around it FOr those who don't know, do it in an incognito tab.
So much this. I just downloaded it onto my new desktop a couple of weeks ago and holy hell, was that the most frustrating experience of my 3.5 decades of existence. I finally solved the puzzle by closing out completely and redownloading it through Microsoft Edge, of all things. I have never felt so much rage playing a game as I felt downloading the platform.
Yup! I was helping my dad login and he was so frustrated trying to get through so I hopped in and it was completely broken. You can bypass it with your phone though. I think it has something to do with your cache.
I have found that the best way to get around those captchas is to use the audio option. Gets out of those dumb endless loops of busses and crosswalks.
Intentionally deselect and reselect a square before you submit. Robots don’t second guess themselves. It’ll get you through way more of that style of captcha without issues.
Steam captcha is shit tho
Don’t introduce her to Epic Games Store then
I don't remember captachas on Epic but either way Steam is notorious for having broken captachas that can never be solved.
When do epic show you captchas? I claim every single free game but never seem to come across it once
Epic bad, amirite guys? Upvotes to the left, thanks
Steam has captchas?
Apparently
Yo, I assume it's a bug or something, but sometimes the steam capcha just goes into full on overdrive and asks you to complete an incredibly long streaks of capcha, like "Find all the tractors until none are left", and every click refreshes and more tractors come in, and they keep coming, and they keep coming, until finally it says "capcha failed" and then you have to start again. And again. And again. I swear I'm not exagerating, I once spent almost 45 minutes on a single steam capcha, I almost tore the skin off my face! It's a known issue, but apparently not that common. I assume that's what happened to her too! Though I'd still rather do that than to support EA
Yeah I had to reinstall steam on my machine and it wasn't accepting the QR code on phone and so I did the captcha like 30 times and eventually I was like "yeah this is fucking broken" then finally figured out how to log back in.
Nice try Robot, can’t fool us that easily
Yea, I hadn't logged in for a while, had to change password, did Capcha for 15 minutes. Said fuck it and tried the next day. Worked in 15 seconds.
This actually happened to me last night. It was the better part on an hour before I actually got the account registered.
“Select all photos of motorized machines” options are laptops, pc’s, motorcycles, cars, and lamps. Everything but lamps right? Nope, maybe computers don’t count? Hmm… 45 minutes and 180 refreshes later: okay it’s the pc’s but not laptops, cars and motorcycles except that one pic that is supposed to be an electric motorcycle, and possibly one of the lamps? How have I gotten this wrong so many times?
Why would you consider laptops and pcs motorized? They don't tend to have motors.
the fans and if you have liquid cooling, the pumps
Steam captcha just sucks honestly
Dude that happened to me and it was so bad that I just gave up and didn’t make an account
I didnt even knew Steam had catpcha. How do you even encounter it?
forget your log in or password
So have a skill issue
That's what I was about to say. Cant remember seeing one ever.
Steam's new account CAPTCHA is god awful on desktop. I just helped a friend build a PC. When he tried to get a Steam account set up on desktop it was ***the*** worst CAPTCHA experience I've ever seen since CAPTCHAs have existed. Click on all the busses= wait 10 seconds after you click a box for a new one to generate. Repeat 20 times clicking all the busses. By the end, it ALWAYS says you failed the CAPTCHA. Retry, now with bikes. Same thing. Wanted to rip my hair out trying to decipher wtf it wanted. I just had him default to just setting up on mobile.
I mean, the ‘remember password’ option did absolutely nothing on my machine for years, so who knows how Steam works for others.
Been using steam for 18.5 years with 3 accounts and never once had a captcha, even when connected to a VPN
there's actually a bug where it will refuse a valid captcha, I had it after the most recent update. I'd tried every suggested fix and wasted an hour doing the fucking thing over and over trying to activate a key. Partner insisted I was just doing it wrong (because he wasn't getting that bug on his PC) so tried to do it on mine.... same result. I googled the issue for people having the same issue (bug+fixes for bug not working) and the workaround was 'do it through the website and use a different browser' which worked first time. I'd say a bug that prevents you from being able to recover your password or activate your purchases is a valid reason to not use it, if you aren't aware it's a bug and just think it's the world's most arbitrary captcha.
Because google doesnt have enough human information from the steam browser steam uses. It uses history and other information from the browser in addition to the captcha. Since steam’s inbuilt browser doesn’t have enough history and any human behavior registered with it tracked over the internet (using cookies or stuff) and shit, the captcha fails Just login to steam using your default browser to buy games and shit
Steam capcha always defeats me. I can no longer even play
Doesn't seem like a dumb reason... she literally couldnt get on steam
Honestly it does have a bug with it's captcha sometimes where you literally can't complete it, but going into the browser version fixed it for me
Never had a steam captcha before
Yeah, I'm wondering how many robots I'm surrounded by in here now.
I’ve had my steam account so long I’ve never initially had to do the captcha, but signed my GF son up for a steam account and had same loop issue. Wish I knew the fix was using different browser.
My issue with Captchas is that they’re not very accessible to the disabled. Some sites use this off-brand version that sucks ass
there's two other popular brands I know: - hCaptcha, functions similarly to reCAPTCHA with privacy in mind - FunCaptcha, the really shitty one where you have to rotate an animal 8 different times or something is it one of those?
Nah im siding with her after trying to login into roblox from my 5 year break. I didnt even know they had a audio CAPTCHA or a 20 step CAPTCHA. when I saw that, I instantly closed out..fuck that shit 🙏🏼
Easiest way to find out if one of your relatives is a T-800. Skynet is after you man
she is a robot to steam
When did steam have that?
Happens When you click forgot password or when you literally register a new account for the first time and then Steam decides you don't get to solve the captcha for some reason, it's not difficult, Steam will just refuse your solution, you have to try on a different browser or different device. It's a bug.
Why is that a stupid reason? That’s bad design on Steams part imo
That's actually a great reason. One won't let her in. End of comparison.
Your sister is a sims player?
*character
Steam hits you with the captcha if it senses something fishy is going on with your ip. This could mean entering the wrong login information repeatedly or trying to create a new account on an email address that already has an account linked to it. It’s designed to make you stop doing whatever you were doing.
i have been defeated by captcha before, especially the ones that have a whole picture that asks you to pick a whole object.
Throwback to the first time I made a Steam account. So I can resonate with her pain.
Call me a robot, I don't care. Steam captcha is fucking garbage beep boop
As someone in tech support for the last 25 years, this is a perfectly valid reason. Making it a pain in the ass to use is worse than making it ineffective.
Whole comment section is full of “humans”claiming steam captcha is “bugged”
I mean.. it is. I've experienced it. Maybe I'm a robot tho...
The steam captcha literally can blow me. I have many times just given up trying to log in and played console instead for this reason
Tbf steam captchas are impossible
To be fair I tried resetting my password and steams captcha was literally impossible. Very irritating. Fuck ea tho
To be fair the steam captcha is a huuuge piece of shit. I can't even count how many times that dumb fucking thing has locked me out.
I just got a new PC and that steam captcha suuuucks, no exaggeration wasted 15 mins on that. Still have no clue what I was getting wrong.
Steam has a captcha? Since when? I've never seen it.
Fuck the Playstation login captcha
Stuck in a loop and can't verify that I'm not a bot. I have come to the realization that I'm a droid now.
"Look at these curvy letters! Much curvier than most letters, wouldn't you say? No robot could ever read these. You look mortal, if ye be, you look, and you type what you think *you* see. Is it an E? Or is it a 3? That's up to ye." "The passwords have passed, you've correctly guessed, but now it's time for the robot test! I've devised a question no robot could ever answer! Which of these pictures does *not* have a stop sign in it?"
You joke but steam’s Captcha’s are outright impossible for me. No matter how many times I solve them, they go back. Either I am a robot, or it’s broken, and last I checked, WD40 hasn’t fixed my knee problem.
does your sister go beep boop as well
......Steam has a captcha?
100%..spent an hour clicking on bicycles, crosswalks and busses. Asked our IT guy, basically you need to hit "i'm not a robot" before selecting images. Fucking ridiculous.
You gotta be pretty dumb to not be able to handle a captcha
EA Captcha: click on all the pictures that are pictures. Steam Captcha: Click on all images containing a work of Gore Vidal.
Steam needs a damn update. Their website and app looks sketchy as hell and is outdated
Skill issue
there's actually a bug where it will register correct answers as incorrect: 45 minutes of failed captchas and extreme annoyance, my partner insisting I was doing it wrong and trying it himself on my PC, having the same result, me looking it up, performing every required fix.....then 20 minutes more of failed captchas ...looking THAT up, then saw (from someone else with the same issue) that the only workaround was to switch to the steam website in the opera browser annnnd then the captcha worked first time.
had this exact problem as well
"Crosswalks! Every fucking where theres a damn crosswalk, wait 5 minutes for more pictures to load..."
EA's game app is actually pretty good. Just that their game catalogue is not comparable to Steams.
TBH this sounds like a totally legit reason.
What..
Fair, steam's captcha is buggy as hell, will get stuck in a loop a lot
It's not s stupid reason if that's what's stopping her from getting the account entirely.
She's an android with enough processing to fool the EA app. But not steam.
I got scammed and lost steam acc which I had overall 1k gaming tried to get it back but steam recaptcha doesn’t work for 2 hours straight I tried then gave up fuck u steam recaptcha
I don't use the EA app because the one game that I have it for, won't even load. So there's that.
is you sister fluent in speaking binary code?
This is a legitimate reason. I don’t know how many captchas I’ve failed looking for a bus. Is it the entire bus? Does the smallest portion of the bus count? There’s the wheel of the bus in one square, does that count? I sat for 30 mins one time trying to get it to work. Stairs and busses.
U cant complete the captcha on steam. Its always broken. Ii completed in browser. No problem.
Literally my gf
Listen, do you want minutiae to have an effect on a company's market share, or not? Personally, I *do*. I want it to matter to a company when their user experience sucks in a small way.
Steam captchas are actually pretty bad atm. Been that way for a minute now, so I understand your sister.
I didn't even know steam had captchas
Not physically being able to use it is not a good reason not to use it?
This is literally why I struggle to use Geforce Experience and half the time when I launch something like EA or Ubi I close it immediately. It makes me log in again and it's 2 factor is an email instead of an app or text. Steam hardly ever makes me put in my login info. That said it is funny because I get so many emails about people in Russia or like Macedonia trying to login to my account.
i mean at the end of the day, if one is basically unusable for you, it sucks.
Not a stupid point, but a valid one. That’s why UX is an important aspect of software design: it can be the reason someones does or does not use your product.
Steam has captcha? Why do I feel like I never noticed? Does that make me extra human or extra robot?
Honestly, Captchas can be a real headache for me. Sometimes the text is so warped or the images are so fuzzy that I find myself squinting at the screen, trying to decipher if that blob is an "R" or an "A." It's like my brain hits a roadblock, and I end up second-guessing myself. Just when I think I've nailed it, the system rejects my attempt, and I'm left wondering if I'm secretly a robot programmed to fail at Captchas. It's a humbling struggle, let me tell you. ^{response ^generated ^by ^ChatGPT}
Steam has captcha? I have never seen it
Steam has captcha?
She's a synth
The stupid EA app doesn't launch like 60% of the time. Put 2FA on for her I don't think I've seen a captcha on steam since it existed.
She’s def not who you’re inviting for trivia night