Two accounts one email

[Hairy Hands Harry]

I am doing some experimenting. I made a second account from the same email. I was surprised that the library is the same for the new account.

It looks like there can be only one user name shared by the 2 accounts. Correct?
Only the logins are different. So it does not seem like I do have two accounts. Just two different logins to the same account.

I am confused.

[Ogami]

You can have as many accounts linked to the same email as you want, i have like half a dozen on the same email.
The new account will show all installed games on the same PC in its library, thats normal.
But it should have a PURCHASE button instead of the usual PLAY button when looking at the games.

[Hairy Hands Harry]

Originally posted by Ogami:

You can have as many accounts linked to the same email as you want, i have like half a dozen on the same email.
The new account will show all installed games on the same PC in its library, thats normal.
But it should have a PURCHASE button instead of the usual PLAY button when looking at the games.

Ah. I have only some free games. So it did look like it installed the same one again when I clicked play.

[Supafly]

I have 2 accounts and both use the same email address

[Kage Goomba]

While id be quick to point out that most systems don't ever allow this - to know steam does makes me cringe.

So ill just say this instead.

It's kind of a bad idea - as it makes life a little hard in terms of authentication/security/back-tracing.

So hopefully you take copious notes because having a schizo email account with multiple steam accounts is not exactly a easy thing to track....when things go very wrong.

So yeah - go for it...but ill pass.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Kage Goomba:

So hopefully you take copious notes because having a schizo email account with multiple steam accounts is not exactly a easy thing to track....when things go very wrong.

So yeah - go for it...but ill pass.

It actually is fairly easy to track. You just tell Steam your forgot your login, then it will ask for a email, you enter it and it sends a "account restoration" email to the registered email.
If you click the link they send you you get a list of all registered accounts on that email with a list of the display names and avatar. Then you can reset the individual passwords if you want.

[Kage Goomba]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by Kage Goomba:

So hopefully you take copious notes because having a schizo email account with multiple steam accounts is not exactly a easy thing to track....when things go very wrong.

So yeah - go for it...but ill pass.

It actually is fairly easy to track. You just tell Steam your forgot your login, then it will ask for a email, you enter it and it sends a "account restoration" email to the registered email.
If you click the link they send you you get a list of all registered accounts on that email with a list of the display names and avatar. Then you can reset the individual passwords if you want.

For a rational/common sense/thinking person - yes.

But you HAVE seen these boards right? :)

I'm reluctant to encourage such things.