Friend Disappeared from Steam itself?

[Terry]

So a few days back, me and my friend were chatting. He went offline, and I got bored. When I got back on a few hours later, he disappeared from my friends list. Now I do not believe he removed my friends list. When I googled his username, I clicked on a dicussion he started, and instead of his username being there, it was just numbers. Plain numbers. On his profile page it said "This user has not yet set up their Steam Community profile.
If you know them, encourage him/her to set up their profile and join in on the gaming!" and his username was a 17 digit number. Now what I don't understand is, we've been friends since last November, and he's had his communityp rofile setup for as long as I've known him. And all of a sudden, he's gone from my friends list, has a 17 digit number username, and that message on screen. I don't know if anyone can help me, but maybe someone can? I don't know. Thanks for reading, I hope someone can help me figure out why this has happened.

[Cathulhu]

The account may have been terminated, either on request by the owner, or by Valve for grossly violating the Steam Subscriber Agreement.

[Terry]

引用自 Cathulhu：

The account may have been terminated, either on request by the owner, or by Valve for grossly violating the Steam Subscriber Agreement.

Well, I've never known him to cheat on games or anything else that would violate the Subscriber Agreement, and he has several games that he payed good money for, and he was also planning to play some Terraria with me the day he disappeared from my friends list. So i don't think he wanted to terminate his account, or violated the subscriber agreement ( I might be ignorant about the Subscriber agreement part, but I really odn't think he did anything wrong.)

[76561198218426745]

Cheating might get him a VAC ban, but I would doubt very much Steam would terminate his account over it. That would require something very, very serious. The most likely answer is honestly that he requested Steam delete his account, though for what reason I honestly can't say. Actually, see this post.

[Terry]

引用自 habitualaction：

Cheating might get him a VAC ban, but I would doubt very much Steam would terminate his account over it. That would require something very, very serious. The most likely answer is honestly that he requested Steam delete his account, though for what reason I honestly can't say.

Like I said before, he was planning on playing with me that day. Ever heard of anyone that requests a termination of their account on the day they plan to play a game with a friend? Just doesn't make sense.

[76561198218426745]

It's extremely unlikely Steam would delete his account the same day he requested it. I would expect it would take from a few days, to a couple of weeks.

[The Giving One]

Sounds like the account may have been community banned. If there is only a string of numbers there as you said.

引用自 MutantWafflez：

I clicked on a dicussion he started, and instead of his username being there, it was just numbers. Plain numbers. [...] and his username was a 17 digit number.

I am only posting a possibility, so don't take that as what happened for sure. I don't know.

[Hextravert]

Frankly, I haven't even heard of any account being terminated at all.

Many users have contacted Support about this before, but their requests always got rejected.

And when they complain about it at the forums, we tell them to just stop using the account.

引用自 MutantWafflez：

Like I said before, he was planning on playing with me that day. Ever heard of anyone that requests a termination of their account on the day they plan to play a game with a friend? Just doesn't make sense.

[Terry]

引用自 The Giving One：

Sounds like the account may have been community banned. If there is only a string of numbers there as you said.

引用自 MutantWafflez：

I clicked on a dicussion he started, and instead of his username being there, it was just numbers. Plain numbers. [...] and his username was a 17 digit number.

I am only posting a possibility, so don't take that as what happened for sure. I don't know.

Interesting. I've never heard of a community ban before. Is there anyway to get out of the theoritical community ban?

[The Giving One]

引用自 MutantWafflez：

Interesting. I've never heard of a community ban before. Is there anyway to get out of the theoritical community ban?

Again, I want to stress this, but I don't know if that is what happened for sure and there would be no way for me to know. As the good habitual said, it is pretty serious if that is indeed what happened to the account.

Forgive me for saying this, but do we really ever "know" the people that are on our friend's lists ? They are only strangers on the internet, unless we meet and get to know them in real life, so how do we ever really know them if so ?

Just saying...hope you understand what I mean.

[Terry]

Again, I want to stress this, but I don't know if that is what happened for sure and there would be no way for me to know. As the good habitual said, it is pretty serious if that is indeed what happened to the account.

Forgive me for saying this, but do we really ever "know" the people that are on our friend's lists ? They are only strangers on the internet, unless we meet and get to know them in real life, so how do we ever really know them if so ?

Just saying...hope you understand what I mean.

I do undestand, however he has proven himself to be a trustworthy person, I don't see him as the type of person to disappear into the wind. But whatever happened to him, I'll keep trying to figure out. Thanks for the feedback, guys. Appreciate it.

[The Giving One]

引用自 MutantWafflez：

But whatever happened to him, I'll keep trying to figure out. Thanks for the feedback, guys. Appreciate it.

Have you had any invites from strangers lately ? It may be him on a newly created account trying to get back in touch with you. Unless he had lots of other friends or has not considered you as that important to get back in touch with yet.

Not to seem rude at all, but just throwing possibilities out there to consider, please.

EDIT..However, limited accounts cannot send friend invites. So he would have to first spend or add the $5 USD to do that for a newly-created account.

[The End]

引用自 MutantWafflez：

So a few days back, me and my friend were chatting. He went offline, and I got bored. When I got back on a few hours later, he disappeared from my friends list.

I looked at your postinghistory, the guy you are missing, has been removed from the community, he was Last online: 3 days ago.

Why? only Valve and your friend know that.

[The Giving One]

Please keep in mind also that if the account has been banned/suspended or whatever, that anyone using the account could have caused it. Just because it is your friend's account, that does not mean that you know for sure with absolute certaintly what he does with that account all the time. No way to know that for sure.

[Terry]

引用自 The Giving One：

引用自 MutantWafflez：

But whatever happened to him, I'll keep trying to figure out. Thanks for the feedback, guys. Appreciate it.

Have you had any invites from strangers lately ? It may be him on a newly created account trying to get back in touch with you. Unless he had lots of other friends or has not considered you as that important to get back in touch with yet.

Not to seem rude at all, but just throwing possibilities out there to consider, please.

EDIT..However, limited accounts cannot send friend invites. So he would have to first spend or add the $5 USD to do that for a newly-created account.

No stranger friend requests sadly. I attempted to email him the day after he disappeared, no response yet.

[Terry]

Mmmm, yeah. Doing some research, it seems that alot of the stuff that has happened is pointing to community ban. Thanks for your help you guys, Appreciate it. I'll see what'll happen from here.