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I am sorry to say but you are going to have to make a new steam account for just EA games. Because EA are not going to fix the problem
What a scam.
My account was hacked and i cant recover it, now i bought few EA games and cant play or launch them. Should be able to sue steam for this ♥♥♥♥.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0A94-F308-34A5-1988
Steam sales those games, its for them to make sure the product they sell is functional and not a danger to the client.
Also it was my EA account and email tied to it that was hacked, and support refuses to help as somone else has it.
But even if it wasnt, even if i just forgot what the account name is, thats a reason enough to be able to delink.
Again, somone needs to make steam legally responsible for ♥♥♥♥ like this.
→ There are some very sketchy business practices in play here and I believe this industry needs more regulation.
If you manage your accounts properly or just manage them well, what is the circumstance where you lose access to them?
Put everything into a password manager, including backup/recovery codes. Because how are most accounts lost? People forget the credentials. Or if they're hijacked and they've lost critical information that would help prove ownership.
Manage your accounts properly and most of that goes away. The problem is relatively speaking the Internet is still new, and the concept of managing web accounts for decades is still on its first generation.
After all when Steam launched, no one had an account on a website that was 10 years old. And even 5 years old would have been a fairly long time for a lot of users. And things were so transient back then, it was still such the wild west that no one was seriously thinking about "how do I manage the accounts I have now in 2003 in 2023, 2030, 2050?" Because things were still so wild it would be easy to tell yourself it doesn't matter, everything will be totally different by then anyway, so no worries.
As much as public schools should have some personal finance classes and what not, we need to think about training people how to manage things like web accounts better because leaving them to their own devices only confirms that a lot of people suck at it. We need to teach them to be organized and think about the future, because it may not always be easy to recover old accounts or forgotten accounts.
-discontinuation of the games site/ re branding of the website ( see the mess when meta a oculus stores merged while you kept your account all websites linking got broken )
-password and bank data leak by the hosting websites, happened to epic and a milion other hosts
-forced password reset ( its how i lost my epic account, i switched my email providers, wanted to update info and i got a message my password got changed for secirity reasons and i need to log into my email, one i delated the same day, to change it, guess ♥♥♥♥ me since bad timing right? )
-legal disagreement between EA and Steam
-EA bankruptcy or merger with another firm
-hackers ( not every website demands you send in the photos of your **** and a phone number and birth day may not be enough)
And million other reasons.
Tell me mr smart man, what will you do if EA decides to discontinue the linking system one day randomly?
You buy steam game and ... it wont work.
How your big brain gonna solve that?
Of course you can't manage things out of your control. You should focus on things you can manage and control. And realistically most of the examples you listed are edge case, far fetched, or hypothetical what-ifs that assume the worst case outcome. And even in some scenario where a version of EA or Valve going bankrupt or merging with another company were to occur, it wouldn't happen so suddenly or randomly. And ultimately your pessimism may not be as strong an argument as you think.
1 "Not likely" is not a guarantee. Getting sick randomly is not likely, but it happens. If it can happen to facebook/meta/occulus, one of the biggest websites in the world, it can happen to EA or Ubisoft. Meta to this day didnt fix all meta account linking, a lot of it is still broken 2 years later.
You failed to provide a single point to even argue against it. Again, Meta proves 100% this can and will happen, large corporation acquisitions are the norm now, in fact a lot of Big publishers fall apart or get bough every few months, with Activision and Blizzard being a perfect example.
2 Data breaches is how most secure accounts are lost. Once some Israeli or Chinese data collecting organization has all your info you physically cant prove its your account, any info you can provide they will have too, and it will take milliseconds of access to your email to change your data, email and password for them using bots and scripts. China successfully hacks into closed government networks, you think an EA store is safe?
Your casual discarding of this point is laughable, isnt a month where a Youtube i watch, SomeOrdinaryGamers dosnt cover some large scale data breach involving million of accounts, its literally the norm.
3 No way, i should have? Thanks for the tip, but heres the tip, i lost they account while i tried to do it, since epic decided to change my password randomly without asking me.
I see forced ToS updates daily on every site, even steam. One day you have an account on a site that requires no personal info, the other you are supposed to send in your photo, how much money you have in your bank account and a blood sample of your cat.
Dont even pretend you arent forced to accept everything or lose acess to your games, password resets are the least of it.
4 What are you on about? Did you think before typing that? If a game on steam requires a EA account to run, and the linking of those accounts stops working due to lets say European Union disallowing nested logins and data collections in some major EU ruling, how will you play that game? EA suing Steam is least of it, it may be forced on them by any country.
What will you do then?
5 What a naive think to say. Activison, that s 2x the size of EA is getting bought by Microsoft thats 10x the size of EA as we speak, in corporate world EA is a small fish thats worth barely anything, a 30 billion evaulations is pennies when companies have trillions of $.
Sony could buy and disband EA as a brand tomorrow, and you could do nothing to stop it.
You would lose your EA games and at most you could go cry about it.
"that can be managed and wouldn't necessarily lead to any service interruptions or user issues."
Ah yes, since global corporations are so know for worrying about the user bottom line and arent just souless money making machines. Get real.
6 And what if the hack happens from a software side? Lets say Hackers get access to microsoft or nvidia servers, force and update to install malware and grab all your info.
Do you know that its how some US government agencies got hacked? Not through direct access, but through secondary hacks?
The argument thats its "unlikely" is laughable, losing an account is already unlikely, thats the point, it happens, to few, but it does.
Far fetched you say? Ok, heres a list of things that did happen.
Facebook re branding into Meta, which went with merger of all its platforms, this broke almost all linking forms and Oculus VR game store is still a complete mess split among 3 platforms that barely work together despite being linked with one account. Meta is one of the bigger companies in the world, and it couldnt perform a competent merger, EA by comparison is nothing.
Mentioned acquisition of Activision by Microsoft, one of the biggest publishers casually bough overnight with so much legal problems the case saw legal disputes in multiple countries and saw government agencies illegal attempt to interfere in it, a worldwide scandal and a complete mess that now sees Sony and Microsoft on a legal pathway to the US supreme court.
On that matter Blizzards financial collapse, while being a subsidiary of Activision, anybody can check the stock investor reports to see that its bleeding money, and is kept alive by Kotick but it forced the company to be sold.
THQ bankruptcy, at one point one of the biggest publishers in the world, few bad investments and it was gone.
Here, few examples of gaming related drama. EA is a joke by comparison, and your take "its unlikely to happen" goes in face of what literally is happening today, right now, in the gaming industry.
In reality EA could be gone in a week, and you would have only your delusions left.
I have EA account with not verified email (!!!), yes my bad, somehow I managed to connect this email with steam account YEARS ago.
I lost access to the email and it was never verified...
But why EA allows me to buy / connect steam games for the not verified account?
And after that they demand from me verification in order to play, while I used steam link as prove of my identity. I see it is a hole in their system and super unfair.