We need switch account feature

[RazZ]

We need switch account feature like playStation and xbox it is a pain if you have multiple accounts you have to put your email and password again and again when you put your accounts it should remember all of your accounts

[Brian9824]

Disagree strongly. That is far from secure and would lead to lots of claims of "my brother got me banned by switching to my account"

I mean if your switching accounts that much just family share with your other accounts and eliminate the need to switch.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

For another way to quick switch between accounts is to use the "Log out User" in BP mode. Still need the Steam Guard code though.

[Eldin]

Yeah, I'm sick of entering password and guard code every time I switch accounts.

Originally posted by brian9824:

Disagree strongly. That is far from secure and would lead to lots of claims of "my brother got me banned by switching to my account"

Then just log out normally and your brother won't be able to switch back to your account without your password and guard code

Originally posted by brian9824:

I mean if your switching accounts that much just family share with your other accounts and eliminate the need to switch.

What?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

The old way in BP mode was best. They now make you enter the code now. I guess friends were hijacking each others accounts...?

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Eldin:

Yeah, I'm sick of entering password and guard code every time I switch accounts.

Originally posted by brian9824:

Disagree strongly. That is far from secure and would lead to lots of claims of "my brother got me banned by switching to my account"

Then just log out normally and your brother won't be able to switch back to your account without your password and guard code

Originally posted by brian9824:

I mean if your switching accounts that much just family share with your other accounts and eliminate the need to switch.

What?

It opens up a huge security hole if you ever forget to log out. You can already family share the games on 1 of your account with your other accounts so that you can play all your games without having to switch.

[Eldin]

Originally posted by brian9824:

Originally posted by Eldin:

Yeah, I'm sick of entering password and guard code every time I switch accounts.




Then just log out normally and your brother won't be able to switch back to your account without your password and guard code

What?

It opens up a huge security hole if you ever forget to log out. You can already family share the games on 1 of your account with your other accounts so that you can play all your games without having to switch.

Even now if you forget to log out, person who get access to your PC will have access to your account.
And if someone cheats on account with family shared games, both accounts will get banned.

[mr]

There is steam account manager: https://github.com/rex706/SAM its supports 2fa aswell. Have never used it myself.

But having too many accounts login to 1 steam client install is a risk anyway because steam application checks this and if it detects that there have been many differerent accs used it severely increases the risk that all/almost all accounts that have been used will be banned for literally no reason asking for the first activated game key on each account to unban them again.
Especially if it is old accounts (7-8+ years).
Happened to many friends and has been discussed on some forums.

So its best to use as little accounts on steam client as possible - only the ones that u actually play on. For all others u can just create a new Chrome user profile to use them same time without risk or the need to log in and out all the time.

[Eldin]

Originally posted by Windows 7 for life:

There is steam account manager: https://github.com/rex706/SAM its supports 2fa aswell. Have never used it myself.

Just tested it.
It works perfectly

[RazZ]

Originally posted by brian9824:

Disagree strongly. That is far from secure and would lead to lots of claims of "my brother got me banned by switching to my account"

I mean if your switching accounts that much just family share with your other accounts and eliminate the need to switch.

what i never saw anybody complaint about it on playstiation and xbox i know this isnt ps or xbox i think they should add it and if you dont want it turn it off if they add it

[RazZ]

Originally posted by Windows 7 for life:

There is steam account manager: https://github.com/rex706/SAM its supports 2fa aswell. Have never used it myself.

But having too many accounts login to 1 steam client install is a risk anyway because steam application checks this and if it detects that there have been many differerent accs used it severely increases the risk that all/almost all accounts that have been used will be banned for literally no reason asking for the first activated game key on each account to unban them again.
Especially if it is old accounts (7-8+ years).
Happened to many friends and has been discussed on some forums.

So its best to use as little accounts on steam client as possible - only the ones that u actually play on. For all others u can just create a new Chrome user profile to use them same time without risk or the need to log in and out all the time.

i think steam should add it officially instead of using thrid party

[Xite >X< 👁️👁 🇦🇺]

Accounts with the same phone number should be able to be linked.

[RazZ]

so what do u guys think should be in steam or nah?

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

I can go both ways on this topic, it really only comes down to how Valve would implement this type of feature "if they did" and how secure it can be.

Yes I'm for the feature
As someone that has many, many, many accounts I would love the login screen to house all my accounts, saved passwords to simply click on an account and start to login that fast, we could still have the SMA code or email verification needed to get into the account, ect.

No I'm not for the feature
I am use to how Steam works and am fine copy/pasting accounts into the login screen and getting the email code needed to login with.

• Would all accounts linked to the login screen all get VACs if one were to get it? (All accounts connected to a phone # are.)
  
• Would all accounts get perma bans if they get one from their repeated action on the forums and their toxicity? (Many people have alts or make them to keep going.)
  
• Most importantly how would hijacking work with something like this?
  
• Ect.

As said first it all comes down to how this would be implemented as someone that has access to the computer can easily login if all information is stored already (but I doubt that would happen).

[Eldin]

Originally posted by B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t:

• Would all accounts linked to the login screen all get VACs if one were to get it? (All accounts connected to a phone # are.)
  
• Would all accounts get perma bans if they get one from their repeated action on the forums and their toxicity? (Many people have alts or make them to keep going.)
  
• Most importantly how would hijacking work with something like this?
  
• Ect.

As said first it all comes down to how this would be implemented as someone that has access to the computer can easily login if all information is stored already (but I doubt that would happen).

I don't see any reasons for all accounts getting banned just because they are all logged in on the same PC.
It's OK for accounts that share phone number to get banned because if they share phone number, they're most likely sharing the owner.

For hijacking, hijacker would need to have full access to the PC to get other accounts because those accounts wouldn't be linked in any way. And if the victim gets one account stolen by logging to phishing site, hijacker wouldn't have any way of getting other accounts on that PC.



If Valve makes this feature, they should make it do more than just what https://github.com/rex706/SAM does.
Steam Account Manager[github.com] only logs you out from one account and automatically logs you in to another account.

Valve should make it so all accounts can be logged in at the same time, so we can switch between them without having to log out.
-Very useful if you want to chat on one account while playing game on another account.

-You could switch to another account without having to exit game that's currently running. (Scenario: You're playing single player game and you have to go somewhere immediately.
If you exit now you'll have to start from beginning (there are games that don't save when playing on the hardest difficulty and you have to finish the whole game in one go))
So instead of just leaving the PC in the state where nobody else can play games on it until you finish the game, you could just Alt+Tab out of the game, and let your brother or someone switch to their account and play games on their account without exiting your game.
When you come back, you could then just continue where you left.

-You could play splitscreen games like Rocket League for example together.
Account that launched the game is Player 1, and when player 2 joins you choose from other logged in accounts who will be player 2, player 3, etc.

[Strategius]

When I am using this Steam Account Manager, I still have to put in my mobile guard code. Is there any way to get rid of that? It annoys me very much and the reason I got SAM is that I thought I don't have to enter the mobile guard code. Why is it still happening?