Restoring game licenses into account

[Frosty The Blowman]

So I recently removed a lot of game licenses (complimentary) from my account, thinking that it would lower my overall game count in my profile, but it didn't.

Is there a way to restore those licenses? I might as well have them back since the removals didn't serve their purpose. How do I contact support about it if only they can do it?

[Matt]

Restore from the same place that you deleted them.

[Frosty The Blowman]

But I went to top right - account name - account details - view licenses and product key activations and I deleted them from there. I see no option to restore them there.

[Matt]

I don't think that's where you deleted them from. When I look at that page, there's no way for me to remove anything.

[Glimmer]

https://help.steampowered.com/
click on the "Games, Software, etc." button. Type the name of the game into the Search field and then click on the game. Click on the "It's not in my library" button.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by Frosty The Blowman:

But I went to top right - account name - account details - view licenses and product key activations and I deleted them from there. I see no option to restore them there.

If they were free to play licesnes, you will have to go to the game's game page and click play.

[Frosty The Blowman]

I can restore them by going to the support page, searching for the games and then eventually ending up on a page that tells me I can view the receipt and that the game is still in my account.
It would be nice though if I could see all the products that have ever registered to my account and then restore them that way, but steam support does not appear to have that available.

[Frosty The Blowman]

So yeah, if anybody knows a way to find all products you've ever registered to your account, that would be nice. At this rate I have to remember individually all the titles I removed and then add them back again, and it's like I never removed them but it's tedious.

[ZanyScum]

This is not working for your?
https://store.steampowered.com/account/licenses/

[ZanyScum]

Oh my god, my first entry:
24 Jan, 2005 Half-Life 2 Retail Standard

[Frosty The Blowman]

Originally posted by ZanyScum:

This is not working for your?
https://store.steampowered.com/account/licenses/

Yes it is, the issue here is that the only way to restore all those old game licenses back to when before I went on my deleting spree is to remember the titles individually, search them, and then restore or 'install' them again.

Steam remembers everything I've ever registered to my account, it's just that there is no one place I can access them all so I can restore them easier that way.

I recommend that support makes it so you can see all titles you've ever registered to your account in one place somewhere.

[ReBoot]

Better idea: Dont delete games if you dont want them gone

[ZanyScum]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Better idea: Dont delete games if you dont want them gone :p2chell:

Haha, I don't get why anyone would delete a game?

Once I read about someone who got a game as "fun gift" or something like that.
A game with something cute in it. Don't know, girls, dogs, cats, flowers? Who cares.

He was embarrassed, something about other guys. Grow up.

[Frosty The Blowman]

I removed the licenses because I was ashamed about my high game count, but then I stopped caring once I realized that Steam actually increased my count by a little as a result of what I did.

Different sites are giving me higher product counts than usual, so that means that somewhere, obviously, all the data about the stuff I deleted is being stored. I just think it's pointless to delete that history if it didn't serve my original goal.

[ZanyScum]

Originally posted by Frosty The Blowman:

I removed the licenses because I was ashamed about my high game count [...]

Again something I can not relate to.
Are you per chance to a European? Perhaps totally different world view?

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by Frosty The Blowman:

I removed the licenses because I was ashamed about my high game count, but then I stopped caring once I realized that Steam actually increased my count by a little as a result of what I did.

Different sites are giving me higher product counts than usual, so that means that somewhere, obviously, all the data about the stuff I deleted is being stored. I just think it's pointless to delete that history if it didn't serve my original goal.

No one cares about your game count. There was a profile I checked a few days ago with 19k games on it. https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561197979408421/?cc=us

So you have nothing to be ashamed of.

Some sites may be using out dated infromation or may include/exclude something in the API that Valve counts/does not count.

I do not think free to play games are included in the count either.