dl account linked in to another steam problem!

[evrys22]

back in the summer i logged in from my steam to a friend's account and since then my steam is linked in to his account and i have no way to restore my account on any steam! Ive tried everything so far and nothing seems to work...both mine and his steam have his duel links account as main..please help!

[DUBINA]

thats not a problem, thats how it goes and there is nothing to fix, read terms of use.

[evrys22]

so i cannot use my account on steam again?

[Orochi Samurai]

Originally posted by evrys22:

so i cannot use my account on steam again?

Do you have a KONAMI ID?

[evrys22]

yes i do but ive tried on another steam account and it still says "your account is linked to another steam account"

[Orochi Samurai]

Originally posted by evrys22:

yes i do but ive tried on another steam account and it still says "your account is linked to another steam account"

At the very start before you click "initiate link" have you clicked data transfer? And entered your KONAMI ID info, if so and it didnt work, then you will have to contact KONAMI support.

[DUBINA]

Originally posted by evrys22:

yes i do but ive tried on another steam account and it still says "your account is linked to another steam account"

you cant do anything on steam but you can use android emulator on pc instead

[evrys22]

yes im playing on emulator for the past months but i want to play on steam again...ive clicked data transfer and still cant..ive tried it on more than 1 steam accounts also

[Lem]

You are unfortunately out of luck fam.

[evrys22]

i just need to find the steam my duel links account is linked into...isnt there a way to do that?

[Tunnel Sharks Rule!!!]

Originally posted by evrys22:

i just need to find the steam my duel links account is linked into...isnt there a way to do that?

If you don't know your other account you screwed

[battlezoby]

Can you still play with your Collection on a Android? If so, you're lucky. People have completely lost their data entirely when moving to more than one Steam account. But barring a huge change in Konami's policy (like actually giving a damn) I don't think you can get it back onto Steam.

If you got it from his Steam Account onto an Android, I suspect it might not ever be able to go to a Steam account other than his again, and I'd recommend against even trying because you're likely to lose the data all-together. Someone above suggested you try an Andriod emulator... if you can do that, there's a good chance that's your best bet.

But if the data is lost (you can't play it on an android) it may be gone for good and not recoverable anywhere. If he ran Duel Links on his account, before you transfered your collection away, that is probably what happened. :-(

It know it totally sux-bigtime, but it's a pretty horrible but real situation. (Depending on how much time and/or money, and moreso, personal sentiment you have invested in the game.)

Please let me/us know more details if you can. If you actually got it from your Steam account onto his, I'm a bit surprised. If it was from your Android to his Steam, I'm not surprised, but it's probably either stuck on his account (if not overwritten by his Duel Links collection) or gone if he did effectively "overwrite" it.

I've heard pretty reliable accounts of data being lost this way, from people who know the game very well and have since grinded completely new accounts because they had no other way to keep playing. The general rule is to never put two different Duel Links collections on the same Steam account, and although I'm a little less sure, don't try to move it from one Steam account to another as this might lose your data as well.

I've been assured that a lot of people have moved it from Steam to the Android and back to Steam safely, but personally, I don't even feel safe doing that, despite wishing I could play this on my mobile. The problem with any transfer is that I'm pretty sure there are some (likely many) things Konami won't even try to fix if they go wrong for whatever reason. But again, other people say transfer is safe if you never involve two Steam accounts, but two Steam accounts is very much not recommended to say the least.

[Soda]

Originally posted by battlezoby:

-snip-

The reason the system is like this is because of users abusing multiple accounts. You get one DL account for each steam account. So far I'm pretty sure that every post that has come on here has broken multi-account TOS, whether they did it knowingly or unknowingly (such as this case). Konami is very strict with its TOS, despite most of it being dumb.

[evrys22]

guys the problem is that when i try to data transfer my way into my account it says "this account is already linked with another steam account" when its literally not...and even if it is how can i find this account they say its linked with?i can play on mobile and pc emulator also but i'd rather play on steam cause its way faster

[DUBINA]

Originally posted by evrys22:

guys the problem is that when i try to data transfer my way into my account it says "this account is already linked with another steam account" when its literally not...and even if it is how can i find this account they say its linked with?i can play on mobile and pc emulator also but i'd rather play on steam cause its way faster

i think the problem here is that when you first make your konami id, the game is already installed and that it is still not linked to your steam since you've yet to make your first data transfer and then you go naiively use your friend's steam and do data transfer, thats when it gets linked. dont know though your reasoning for using your friend's steam if you have a mobile that can do the same thing, or maybe you didnt have one at the moment. anyway maybe if you ask them to unlink it might help but knowing konami it would be either they wont do it or they do something that will do things worse lol.

[battlezoby]

BTW... I said that the "Contact Us" button within Duel Links was broken as recently as
6-months ago...

But maybe FORTUNATELY, they've since fixed that, and going to "Settings" (the Gear Icon in
the top-right of the game) gives you a webpage to retrieve data. If you have Duel
Links on your Steam account, you could try it because, I'm pretty sure they're not
trying to kill your data due to being strict with the TOS, but rather, because the
Steam integration is broken and tends to drop it. The point is, it can't hurt to
try to get help; it just probably won't work anytime soon.

I've also heard that Konami monitors the Android-related forums, including, I think,
Reddit, even though they don't read the Steam Forums, so those are worth trying maybe.

Despite any assumption that Konami might be "very strict with its TOS," all the evidence points differently. It certainly appears that most of all abuse that has worked over the years continues to
work, while unfortinate problems like losing the data of people who accidentally mess
up transfers to Steam accounts seem to stay broken.

Although I don't want to encourage severe TOS abuse, I know of people who have
consistently done it to an extreme extent and have discussed it in the in-game chat
where Konami could read about if they wanted to, but it continues to work. Even
blatantly malicious and harmful abuse of the system is badly addressed - for example
- the overt spamming of the in-game chats only result in the eventual cancellation of
those accounts, even though it would be easy to auto-block any spammer who gets, say,
50 or more "abuse reports" against them in, say, 2 hours or less. Note: They
wouldn't even need to risk blocking the accounts, they just need to filter out posts
from those account-ID's unless/until the reports might be hand-verified as invalid.