How many one person can have personal accounts?

[hiphopopyster]

I want to be sure that one person can have unlimited amount of personal accounts.
In TF2 the inventory can be expanded only up to 3000 slots. Im looking to have more than 200 000 items so i need over few hundreds accounts to keep my items. Is it allowed by terms of steam? I havent found anything against having big number of personal accounts.

[mimizukari]

You can't find anything against it because the subscriber agreement does not forbid having multiple accounts.

[Washell]

I have heard people getting trade bans for doing large and/or frequent trading between their accounts. Usually resolved by contacting support, but still.

Also, digital content is not an investment. There's no official way of cashing out. You can lose a large value or even everything overnight because Valve goes bankrupt, decides to release TF3 or ban you for trading outside the system with (known) scammers. You can lose a large value slowly due to the community losing interest in TF2 over other games. Do not tie a significant amount of your equity into pretend hats.

Long story short, if you're having to jump through hoops to use the system, you're probably not using it as Valve intended it, and you're taking a serious risk.

[The Giving One]

Publicado originalmente por Hypno:

I want to be sure that one person can have unlimited amount of personal accounts.

Yes, you can have as many Steam accounts as you wish, given they all follow the SSA and terms of use, as what one account does may in fact affect all the others, depending on if any terms are violated.

Publicado originalmente por Hypno:

In TF2 the inventory can be expanded only up to 3000 slots.

And there are reasons for that limitation, otherwise there would be no limits to that.

Publicado originalmente por Hypno:

Im looking to have more than 200 000 items so i need over few hundreds accounts to keep my items.

This sounds a lot like trying to circumvent the limitation of having 3000 on one account in the first place, and already sends up red flags.
Also, that is a huge number to keep up with the security and logins of the accounts.

Mobile authenticator on each account for trading, perhaps ? That's one device for all those accounts.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/7EFD-3CAE-64D3-1C31#morethanone

Only one authenticator for an account at a time, as I am pretty sure you will not have hundreds of phones to allow authenticaton.

And TF2 is a VAC protected game. If only ONE of those accounts is involved in a cheating infraction, then ALL of the accounts sharing the same phone number will be VAC banned also.

That's each and every account, and this also negatively impacts trading items to say the least.

(EDIT....VAC banned accounts have permanently locked inventory that cannot be moved from the banned account)

Also, if any of the accounts are used to otherwise violate the SSA, depending on the situation, then that can have an impact on all of the other accounts.
All in all, this sums it up pretty well :

Publicado originalmente por Washell:

Long story short, if you're having to jump through hoops to use the system, you're probably not using it as Valve intended it, and you're taking a serious risk.

[hiphopopyster]

Publicado originalmente por The Giving One:

Publicado originalmente por Hypno:

I want to be sure that one person can have unlimited amount of personal accounts.

Yes, you can have as many Steam accounts as you wish, given they all follow the SSA and terms of use, as what one account does may in fact affect all the others, depending on if any terms are violated.

Publicado originalmente por Hypno:

In TF2 the inventory can be expanded only up to 3000 slots.

And there are reasons for that limitation, otherwise there would be no limits to that.

Publicado originalmente por Hypno:

Im looking to have more than 200 000 items so i need over few hundreds accounts to keep my items.

This sounds a lot like trying to circumvent the limitation of having 3000 on one account in the first place, and already sends up red flags.
Also, that is a huge number to keep up with the security and logins of the accounts.

Mobile authenticator on each account for trading, perhaps ? That's one device for all those accounts.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/7EFD-3CAE-64D3-1C31#morethanone

Only one authenticator for an account at a time, as I am pretty sure you will not have hundreds of phones to allow authenticaton.

And TF2 is a VAC protected game. If only ONE of those accounts is involved in a cheating infraction, then ALL of the accounts sharing the same phone number will be VAC banned also.

That's each and every account, and this also negatively impacts trading items to say the least.

Also, if any of the accounts are used to violate the SSA, depending on the situation, then that can have an impact on all of the other accounts.
All in all, this sums it up pretty well :

Publicado originalmente por Washell:

Long story short, if you're having to jump through hoops to use the system, you're probably not using it as Valve intended it, and you're taking a serious risk.

Thank you very much for your answer.


I would like to buy some TF2 cases for my future, these cases are really cheap and i wish i could keep em all at one account ( with storage boxes as Valve did in csgo). But sadly i have to make some accounts to keep my cases. Im not interested in trading these cases or whatever. Tbh im looking to buy em in future to get really crazy unusuals, but i dont want to waste money buying cases in future for more than now.

In that way i think im doing right. Just buying cases for cheaper than i would in future.

[The Giving One]

Where do you plan to get the cases ? If that is from a third party site, that is also a big risk.

If you will get them on Steam , then it sounds like what you want to do is fine.

[hiphopopyster]

Publicado originalmente por The Giving One:

Where do you plan to get the cases ? If that is from a third party site, that is also a big risk.

If you will get them on Steam , then it sounds like what you want to do is fine.

I will buy them off the steam community market.

[Mad Scientist]

Keep in mind if you are considered as using the account for Commercial Activity, Valve can take action on all accounts you operate making them entirely useless.

[rawWwRrr]

Even if it just *looks* like commercial activity. They are not required to prove that it is commercial activity. Having that many accounts for the sole purpose of buying game cases is highly unusual and not normal for a regular user.

[The Giving One]

Publicado originalmente por Hypno:

I will buy them off the steam community market.

Sorry, as I forgot to say you were welcome for the answer I gave above. From what you have told us here, I don't see anything wrong with what you want to do. Others may have further valuable input on the topic as well, so feel free to keep discussing the matter as you see fit. Good luck to you.

[Astaroth]

Publicado originalmente por The Giving One:

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/7EFD-3CAE-64D3-1C31#morethanone

Only one authenticator for an account at a time, as I am pretty sure you will not have hundreds of phones to allow authenticaton.

You might have this wrong. You can have multiple accounts in the same device, but you can't have multiple devices for the same account. That's what that question refers to

[The Giving One]

Publicado originalmente por Astaroth:

You might have this wrong. You can have multiple accounts in the same device, but you can't have multiple devices for the same account. That's what that question refers to

Sorry, I did not word that very well. Yes, that is what I meant to say. Thanks for the clarification.
I expect my fellow Steam brothers and sisters to let me know if I make a mistake.

[Callahan420]

Seems shady to me but don't forget you have to spend $5 on each account to have access to the market.