its 2020 can you please let us change our account name already?

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[Arokhantos]

If it benefits account security i would like to be able to change it, right now tho i don't face such problem, im not even sure if knowning login name can cause issues like requesting password reset etc, i think it does not matter unless due annoyance, not against it just sharing my view on it.

[Skeletor]

This means, Lord Gaben knows something about it

[⚔ Kassandra ⚔]

Originally posted by Lil AK:

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you might want id name ...since name you can change whenever you want ..and about id name nobody beside you know it

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Knuckles McGee:

Add me to the list, really want to change my Steam ID!
It's embarrassing!

Originally posted by cadu-:

Add me to the list, really want to change my Steam ID!
It's embarrassing!

Originally posted by Rapikol:

Mine is kind of embarrassing too, even got few people laughing and making fun when they found out... I wish i could remove it or change it.

No one should know your log in ID, therefore it's not embarrassing. Accounts are not to be shared and your log in ID is not visible to anyone but you. This is not an issue unless you are incorrectly sharing your account, which you aren't supposed to be doing.

Your profile name is the only thing anyone should see and you can change that whenever you want.

[Taebrythn]

as people mentioned bans stay if you change your id name if that was possible. no one else sees it but you unless you're telling people. then the last thought maybe you shouldn't put something "embarrassing" as a login name.

this is not to say games haven't done this because DDO did they merged forum names into account names and that is what you saw. of course what that meant was people made trolling accounts to talk crap lol and hide their real accounts from ridicule.

i wonder how many people even care how Steam started or why. did Gaben know it would turn out the way it did? who knows. i just don't see why it really matters on the id name since your display name is what people see. it only matters to a single person per account.

[Arokhantos]

What i would like to change is steam id so i cannot be tracked anymore by stalkers i don't care if valve can still track me, if already made the mistake in the past to use same nick name everywhere and as result stalker added me everywhere and started harrasing me including on steam, if reported it back then but i have my doubts that they taken action against him.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Franky:

What i would like to change is steam id so i cannot be tracked anymore by stalkers i don't care if valve can still track me, if already made the mistake in the past to use same nick name everywhere and as result stalker added me everywhere and started harrasing me including on steam, if reported it back then but i have my doubts that they taken action against him.

You'll never be able to change that, its used by so many games and is the primary tracking number. If anyone harrasses you on steam its incredibly easy to just block and ignore them,

[cadu-]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

Originally posted by Knuckles McGee:

Add me to the list, really want to change my Steam ID!
It's embarrassing!

Originally posted by cadu-:

Add me to the list, really want to change my Steam ID!
It's embarrassing!

Originally posted by Rapikol:

Mine is kind of embarrassing too, even got few people laughing and making fun when they found out... I wish i could remove it or change it.

No one should know your log in ID, therefore it's not embarrassing. Accounts are not to be shared and your log in ID is not visible to anyone but you. This is not an issue unless you are incorrectly sharing your account, which you aren't supposed to be doing.

Your profile name is the only thing anyone should see and you can change that whenever you want.

It is embarrassing for ME. In my case, it is my old nickname from almost 20 years ago, which I don't use and don't like anymore and brings me very bad memories.

I just can't understand the people trying to argue against this type of request, which may not be beneficial to you at the present time, but it may be something that you will need in the future. I would understand if it was something that somehow affected the experience of the people who don't care about it, but it won't. It is way easier to just ignore the subject. If you are not going to help a legit cause, at least try not to get in the way.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by cadu-:

Originally posted by Kunovega:

No one should know your log in ID, therefore it's not embarrassing. Accounts are not to be shared and your log in ID is not visible to anyone but you. This is not an issue unless you are incorrectly sharing your account, which you aren't supposed to be doing.

Your profile name is the only thing anyone should see and you can change that whenever you want.

It is embarrassing for ME. In my case, it is my old nickname from almost 20 years ago, which I don't use and don't like anymore and brings me very bad memories.

I just can't understand the people trying to argue against this type of request, which may not be beneficial to you at the present time, but it may be something that you will need in the future. I would understand if it was something that somehow affected the experience of the people who don't care about it, but it won't. It is way easier to just ignore the subject. If you are not going to help a legit cause, at least try not to get in the way.

It's not a legit cause if you comprehend the technical issues involved with changing it.

Since you would rather hand wave away those explanations, your ranting is pointless.

If you think that's getting in the way, I don't care, and quite obviously neither does anyone who has the authority to even consider it.

If you don't like public feedback, then send your suggestions through steam support and don't post them to public discussion forums.

[cadu-]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

Originally posted by cadu-:

It is embarrassing for ME. In my case, it is my old nickname from almost 20 years ago, which I don't use and don't like anymore and brings me very bad memories.

I just can't understand the people trying to argue against this type of request, which may not be beneficial to you at the present time, but it may be something that you will need in the future. I would understand if it was something that somehow affected the experience of the people who don't care about it, but it won't. It is way easier to just ignore the subject. If you are not going to help a legit cause, at least try not to get in the way.

It's not a legit cause if you comprehend the technical issues involved with changing it.

Since you would rather hand wave away those explanations, your ranting is pointless.

If you think that's getting in the way, I don't care, and quite obviously neither does anyone who has the authority to even consider it.

If you don't like public feedback, then send your suggestions through steam support and don't post them to public discussion forums.

You are nobody to say that this cause is not legitimate. There are many people who demand this change and that alone makes it legitimate.

It's like asking people to stop requesting game updates because that would (in most cases, of course) involve technical issues. LMAO

I am a software engineer and I know that this task must require a considerable amount of work from Valve. I know how painful a PK change / migration can be in legacy databases, especially when considering the size of Valves one. But that's something Valve has to deal with, not you, unless you are part of their engineering team, which I doubt.

On the other hand, some like you, who probably only took theoretical classes on a cheap e-learning site, come here to fill their egos by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ other legit claims while trying to show their pseudo-knowledge on the subject.

You say:

"If you think that's getting in the way, I don't care, and quite obviously neither does anyone who has the authority to even consider it."

Soon after:

"If you don't like public feedback, then send your suggestions through steam support and don't post them to public discussion forums."

I can't even think of a way in which someone would be able to expose their own hypocrisy quicker than that.

You can now progress to the intermediate level of your e-learning course and let us continue with our LEGIT request.

[crunchyfrog]

Changing such things not only takes a shedload of work for so little reward not only does that mean it's not likely to happen but it goes deeper than that.

We have an example of what is likely to happen and what other things it affects - Sony did this a while ago. They allowed people to change their username.

And one of the downsides of this is that it can royally screw up progress under certain games (iirc Call of Duty was a casualty) and so much more.

It's a bit naive to think it's merely a matter of changing your name, but you have to appreciate that the WHOLE POINT of Steam is to have licences attached to your account. Well, that's an awful large potential to ♥♥♥♥ up.

So no I cannot see any reason this will ever happen anytime soon. The rewards are negligible and the risks monumental.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by cadu-:

Originally posted by Kunovega:

It's not a legit cause if you comprehend the technical issues involved with changing it.

Since you would rather hand wave away those explanations, your ranting is pointless.

If you think that's getting in the way, I don't care, and quite obviously neither does anyone who has the authority to even consider it.

If you don't like public feedback, then send your suggestions through steam support and don't post them to public discussion forums.

You are nobody to say that this cause is not legitimate. There are many people who demand this change and that alone makes it legitimate.

It's like asking people to stop requesting game updates because that would (in most cases, of course) involve technical issues. LMAO

I am a software engineer and I know that this task must require a considerable amount of work from Valve. I know how painful a PK change / migration can be in legacy databases, especially when considering the size of Valves one. But that's something Valve has to deal with, not you, unless you are part of their engineering team, which I doubt.

On the other hand, some like you, who probably only took theoretical classes on a cheap e-learning site, come here to fill their egos by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ other legit claims while trying to show their pseudo-knowledge on the subject.

You say:

"If you think that's getting in the way, I don't care, and quite obviously neither does anyone who has the authority to even consider it."

Soon after:

"If you don't like public feedback, then send your suggestions through steam support and don't post them to public discussion forums."

I can't even think of a way in which someone would be able to expose their own hypocrisy quicker than that.

You can now progress to the intermediate level of your e-learning course and let us continue with our LEGIT request.

That's not hypocrisy. You can give me feedback all you want, I'm just going to laugh at you for it.

Me pointing out futility of your posts isn't hypocrisy and neither is my reminding you that you can make suggestions directly without public interaction. I never said you had to, only that you could.

You choose to continue crying in public. I choose to point out how useless that is. You can keep failing to understand that, but don't blame me for your misunderstanding.

[PreciousHuddle]

I would like to change mine as well. It is outdated now really.

[Си́нтез]

they should let people login with steam id's , and make account names obsolete
Then again Steam id's are public so it could create security issue
But then again email usernames are usually completerly public and it is not considered a huge security risk

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Dota Superking:

they should let people login with steam id's , and make account names obsolete
Then again Steam id's are public so it could create security issue
But then again email usernames are usually completerly public and it is not considered a huge security risk

Email usernames are not public, no one but the person who logs in with them can see it.