Add Username change

[Tzukoyami]

so i went over many plattforms my whole life. every plattform that did an ''unwise'' descision )like you call it) that implents the username as the ''key'' made it possible to change it. look psn for example. the name is the Username, also the ID and also the key, but you can change it, so that the ID is going to be the hidden token and no one sees it anymore, also not myself. I also saw that the username isnt the ID of a steam account. each account has that hidden token, so why isnt it possible to change the username, that is shown under account managment and also to log in. it should be possible to change them too, not only the shown name. many people hate to see there old emails or names that they dont relate to anymore for example. so please just make it happen.

[Start_Running]

Cherry picking to suit your narrative.
Who could have seen that coming.
But yes. No matter what idea comes up, there are always people who will question it.
These challenges, where the originator is not driven by personal ego and emotion, results in the idea being refined into something better, or being acknowledged as being unworkable. In other cases the OP's get very defensive treating the challlenges as if they were personal attacks. Unsurprisingly the ideas that come from such parties are seldom good and falll apart under the lightest of critical thought or situational awareness.

In the case of this suggestion. Valve has already given the answer...some years back and the situation has not changed. The OP might have saved themselves a lot of work with a simplle forum search prior to posting.

This topic has been covered.

As II have said. Imagine how much of a ♥♥♥♥-up had to be inviolved for Valve to acknowlledge that they did an oopsie.. I honestlly don't want to think about their database set up.

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Isn't there some way they could, you know, run tests and find a way to do it safely?

I'm just throwing out ideas but couldn't they copy part of their database over to a private closed network and fiddle with the code until they figure it out?

[[N]ebsun]

The problem would be that email is changeable and account login name is changeable - making it very possibly to completely lose your account.

There needs to be at least 1 unchangeable identifier, and in the case of steam they made it the account name.

[Nx Machina]

Original Steam accounts were tied to your email address. Your account name was taken from the first part of the email address making it the link and identifier to you as the owner of the account.

The only ones to know that are yourself and Steam support which helps with account recovery.

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Wouldn't Steam have your information and be able to identify you no matter how many times you changed your account name and emails though.

And of course they could have a requirement to set up account recovery measures beyond just email. Personally I'd give them my phone number and street address if it meant I could change my login name, and we could set up security questions as an extra layer of protection.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:

Cherry picking to suit your narrative.
Who could have seen that coming.

You, because you'd know something you do.

Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:

This topic has been covered.

Thus you need not cover it again.

Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:

As II have said. Imagine how much of a ♥♥♥♥-up had to be inviolved for Valve to acknowlledge that they did an oopsie.. I honestlly don't want to think about their database set up.

No need to imagine; it's just something they've already acknowledged to be a mistake and thus something that ought to be corrected.

You can "explain" as much as you want why it's never going to happen, but that's not going to change these fundamentals.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Publicado originalmente por Nebsun:

The problem would be that email is changeable and account login name is changeable - making it very possibly to completely lose your account.

There needs to be at least 1 unchangeable identifier, and in the case of steam they made it the account name.

Actually, that's the SteamID64.

Publicado originalmente por Nx Machina:

Original Steam accounts were tied to your email address. Your account name was taken from the first part of the email address making it the link and identifier to you as the owner of the account.

The only ones to know that are yourself and Steam support which helps with account recovery.

Actually, the fact that they were tied to e-mail addresses shows that they aren't things that are only known to the user and to Steam Support. E-mail addresses, after all, are public-facing information.

[Nx Machina]

Publicado originalmente por 😈:

Wouldn't Steam have your information and be able to identify you no matter how many times you changed your account name and emails though.

And of course they could have a requirement to set up account recovery measures beyond just email. Personally I'd give them my phone number and street address if it meant I could change my login name, and we could set up security questions as an extra layer of protection.

You have to prove who you are and Steam support verifies the information.

You can change your profile name, your email address, your bank account, payment method etc but not your account name as that is the unique identifier which only you should know and only you and Steam support can see it.

As to account name change this was answered back in 2011.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170526211558/http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=26088889

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Publicado originalmente por Nx Machina:

Publicado originalmente por 😈:

Wouldn't Steam have your information and be able to identify you no matter how many times you changed your account name and emails though.

And of course they could have a requirement to set up account recovery measures beyond just email. Personally I'd give them my phone number and street address if it meant I could change my login name, and we could set up security questions as an extra layer of protection.

You have to prove who you are and Steam support verifies the information.

You can change your profile name, your email address, your bank account, payment method etc but not your account name as that is the unique identifier which only you should know and only you and Steam support can see it.

As to account name change this was answered back in 2011.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170526211558/http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=26088889

But doesn't steam have a way to individually identify accounts besides just their username?

Like, it seems like they'd be able to see something we can't that works as like a unique fingerprint or ID that's unique to each account, and if something like that doesn't exist, it seems like they could create it.

[Nx Machina]

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But doesn't steam have a way to individually identify accounts besides just their username?

Like, it seems like they'd be able to see something we can't that works as like a unique fingerprint or ID that's unique to each account, and if something like that doesn't exist, it seems like they could create it.

Your account name is the unique identifier which ties it it altogether.

Just because something is possible does not mean it is workable nor advisable. The link I posted clearly states they CANNOT change account names.

Why do people get so worked up when only YOU and Steam support can see it.

[Χάρης]

The platforms you have been on are not as popular as steam is. There are so many accounts and smurf accounts that it would literally be chaotic and impossible for someone to register.

Plus like you said - no one can see the username, therefore why care? Just leave it as it is.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Publicado originalmente por Nx Machina:

Your account name is the unique identifier which ties it it altogether.

It is not; that unique identifier is the SteamID64.

Publicado originalmente por Nx Machina:

The link I posted clearly states they CANNOT change account names.

Except, by virtue of the fact that they control the Steam platform, they can change that too.

After, change never happens until it does.

Publicado originalmente por Nx Machina:

Why do people get so worked up when only YOU and Steam support can see it.

You just stated that they were taken from e-mail addresses. As noted earlier, e-mail addresses are public-facing information, known to others.

The system wasn't designed properly, and that's why it needs fixing.

[Nx Machina]

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:

Actually, the fact that they were tied to e-mail addresses shows that they aren't things that are only known to the user and to Steam Support. E-mail addresses, after all, are public-facing information.

There are millions upon millions upon millions of email addresses.

Have fun figuring out my account name and the email provider I used when I set up my account.

I repeat: ONLY YOU and Steam support know the correct combination of account name, email address but hey keep on making moot points.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Publicado originalmente por Nx Machina:

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:

Actually, the fact that they were tied to e-mail addresses shows that they aren't things that are only known to the user and to Steam Support. E-mail addresses, after all, are public-facing information.

There are millions upon millions upon millions of email addresses.

Have fun figuring out my account name and the email provider I used when I set up my account.

I'm not interested in doxxing you.

Publicado originalmente por Nx Machina:

I repeat: ONLY YOU and Steam support know the correct combination of account name, email address but hey keep on making moot points.

You don't actually need the e-mail address to login anyway, so what you've said is moot.

The username, on the other hand, has already been proven to be enough to at least partially hijack an account, when Valve dropped the ball.

[Nx Machina]

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:

It is not; that unique identifier is the SteamID64.

It is the unique identifier, primary key, the link etc for your account.

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:

Except, by virtue of the fact that they control the Steam platform, they can change that too.

Or just do what you do - keep ignoring the link which states they cannot whilst dreaming they can. Just because Valve control the platform does not mean something you require can be changed.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170526211558/http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=26088889

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:

After, change never happens until it does.

Steam version client choice is not available neither is list view. Those changes are not incoming.

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:

You just stated that they were taken from e-mail addresses. As noted earlier, e-mail addresses are public-facing information, known to others.

No one outside of myself and Steam knows my account name, nor the email address originally used to set it up nor my current email address

But again good luck finding that out from millions of email addresses and account name combinations, my information.

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:

The system wasn't designed properly, and that's why it needs fixing.

There is NOTHING to fix. They CANNOT change account names.