Account name is same as my old e-mail address, how to change accountname?

[Little_Bear]

Hi,

I recently changed my registered e-mail address to a new one in my steam account. So that works fine now, but:

I still have to login to steam using my old e-mail address as account name in the login box. Password is still the same and unchanged. Also my profile name is still correct.

Is there any possibility to change the name of my 'account' as to a normal 'name' (e.g. profile name) instead of my old e-mail address?

Thanks in advance for any clues or help.

LB

[Cathulhu]

Account names can not be changed.
You should never ever use the profile name as your account name though. Why tell anyone one third of your login credentials?

[rawWwRrr]

The account names cannot be changed.

[Little_Bear]

Ok, thanks for the quick reply.

I find it weird, because I wrote down all my credentials I registered years ago with early steam versions.. it used to be little_bear_nl.. but somehow they changed it to my email-address to login with. My 'old' account name little_bear_nl does not work anymore. Stupid enough I have to use my old email-address now to login.. confusing.

[Little_Bear]

Originally posted by Little_Bear:

Ok, thanks for the quick reply.

I find it weird, because I wrote down all my credentials I registered years ago with early steam versions.. it used to be little_bear_nl.. but somehow they changed it to my email-address to login with. My 'old' account name little_bear_nl does not work anymore. Stupid enough I have to use my old email-address now to login.. confusing.

Ow.. and when I open the 'Account details' page in steam.. the huge line on top says: 'Account from [e-mail]'s account' (e-maill address is where the x's are).. Not very important, but should be my name or nickname or something.

[my new friend]

It was thought about but never implemented. https://i.imgur.com/tFER4.png

[Little_Bear]

Originally posted by my new friend:

It was thought about but never implemented. https://i.imgur.com/tFER4.png

Well that's from ages ago.. 2012... but, they did do change my login credentials from using my nickname/profile name little_bear_nl to an email-address.. since I wrote down my original credentials from ages ago.. Can't use the old nickname anymore to login with, only email-address.

And now.. stuck with and haunted with the old email address as login credential at steam :(

Shouldn't be too hard to change.. darn

p.s.: I started using steam since not using it for quite some time.. noticed all the changes.. changed my old email to a new one etc.

[my new friend]

Originally posted by Little_Bear:

Originally posted by my new friend:

It was thought about but never implemented. https://i.imgur.com/tFER4.png

Well that's from ages ago.. 2012... but, they did do change my login credentials from using my nickname/profile name little_bear_nl to an email-address.. since I wrote down my original credentials from ages ago.. Can't use the old nickname anymore to login with, only email-address.

And now.. stuck with and haunted with the old email address as login credential at steam :(

Shouldn't be too hard to change.. darn

p.s.: I started using steam since not using it for quite some time.. noticed all the changes.. changed my old email to a new one etc.

In the beginning, you could choose one of the two but they quickly stopped that due to the issues outlined in the email.
An ex-employee had it on his list of things to do but he left Valve.
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/3062995463270065307/