Login with nick and/or email instead of account_name

[m3nda]

I don't like my account_name.
I won't see it anymore.
I can't change it.
I can't login with my current nick
I can't login with my email
I can't transfer my games to a new account
Sharing Library will not solve the problem.

I am a bit sad that i am forced to use an "account name" that I left YEARS ago and I don't like to see. Aside of that, many (most of them) systems or websites does save the ID, and nick and username are changeable with some rules, and sometimes only once a month or even, a year.

Steam doesn't let you change user_account and doesn't let you login with other data to make the user_account (even if not deleted) not fully visible.

I do understand that changing user_account will not happend, but I would love one of those:
1) Login with current nick
2) Login with email

A plus, to remove the account_name shown in the upper-right user menu, and show instead the nick or the email.

Best regards.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

brian9824 původně napsal:

It's already been said repeatedly over and over. You will NEVER be able to change your login name. It was a mistake and its too dangerous to fix for such little benefit.

Everything that has ever happened had been will never happen before it happened.

brian9824 původně napsal:

I mean at most you ever login to steam 1-2 a year, usually less then that. So no biggie

I've had to log into Steam well more than that number of times in a year. I take a trip somewhere and I need to login again. And sometimes the login just expires for no apparent reason.

Note that every login is basically two logins because the community and store pages have two separate logins.

[Brian9824]

m3nda původně napsal:

wuddih původně napsal:

1)nick (persona name) is not an identifier and not unique. everyone can have the same nick as you. this makes it impossible to use for login.
2) same, you can have multiple accounts with the same contact email. so this is also not a unique identifier.

christmaS původně napsal:

True and true. Nickname login will not work at all.

Of couse i am not talking about the present things. The present things doesn't let me to do that, and that's the reason to be of this thread. So:

1) Nick is not unique. Understood. The real thing here is that user_account is a "nick" itself instead of an ID.

2) Understood, but you could have same emails in both accounts, but just be able to login each account on each email. I don't see the problem.

Again, the real problem is that the user_account is useless being used as a Nick. There are many services on wich you just login using an ID like "DFDFSD234" or whatever.

I am sure that the people who created the user_account many years ago did not think so much about that. The same way, I didn't think so much when i created the account.

Im not blaming, just asking for a change.

Regards.

The technical answer is your login is the primary key. Changing that requires tables to be dropped and re-created, and with the size of steam's database at present that is a VERY dangerous proposition and runs the risk to basically completely wipe out people's accounts.

Steam knows its not ideal, and moderators/developers have said repeatedly it was a lack of foresight when steam was first created and they are well past the point when it could be changed safely.

This is especially true when its literally a cosmetic thing that only the user sees, and is not used very often as you can save your login on your PC.

So just login when you have to, and you can ignore it for the rest of the time.

[m3nda]

brian9824 původně napsal:

It's already been said repeatedly over and over. You will NEVER be able to change your login name. It was a mistake and its too dangerous to fix for such little benefit.

I mean at most you ever login to steam 1-2 a year, usually less then that. So no biggie

As always, your needs and other's needs will not always match.
This comment is ONLY focused into tell me that i can't change my login name. I am aware of that.

[m3nda]

The technical answer is your login is the primary key. Changing that requires tables to be dropped and re-created, and with the size of steam's database at present that is a VERY dangerous proposition and runs the risk to basically completely wipe out people's accounts.

Yes i know. And there's also an ID. As I pointed that is a design lack. If you refer to docs, you can see that:

Can my SteamID and/or Steam Account Name be changed?

Your SteamID and Steam Account Name can not be changed, even by Steam Support staff members. Your player name can be changed at any time in your Steam Community settings, under "Edit my SteamID page".

So, we have 2 primary keys, and it's totally absurd.
I am aware, and I do understand that make changes on a big system can be caotic and tend to disasters.

This is especially true when its literally a cosmetic thing that only the user sees, and is not used very often as you can save your login on your PC.

So just login when you have to, and you can ignore it for the rest of the time.

You think that is only cosmetic. But I have to write something that is not regular to me, something that makes me remember things I dont want. It's a freedom question more than a cosmetic problem.

Again, you have your only and solely point of view.

I did login 10 times this month, for whatever reason that you may know or not. I do understand that you are referring only to the Steam client on which you enable remember-me and that's all and maybe a browser with remember-me feature.

Not my case, but thank you for expose your opinion.

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I am not asking to make such big changes or even to modify user_account.

I am asking to be able to login with other than my account_name and to show "nickname" instead of account_name everywhere. This has been done partially.