Forfeit custom steam URL after extensive period offline.

[Acetango]

Title. The duration required could be years, but to see so many gone to the wind with a long-abandoned account is depressing.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

You don't really know is an account is truly offline for any amount of time. I have an account that I don't log into the friends network that shows last online over 4,000 days ago. I do log into it though.

Also, no one at Valve has picked up the task for trying to release custom URLs in years. The last employee working on it left Valve a few years back.

And, no. Pick a new URL.

[Acetango]

Aye, but if they're using offline mode for so long, are they really that integrated into the steam community? I can't pretend that there's no examples of just that, but I hardly see the use of custom URLs for people who don't go online once in years.

And if relinquishing custom URLs have been forgotten for so long... Yeah, that's depressing.

[The End]

Originally posted by Dunderhead:

Aye, but if they're using offline mode for so long, are they really that integrated into the steam community?

They could be, but it's not a requirement to be active in the community to have a custom url.
If the one you want is taken, you have to find a new untaken name, that's how it works, and imo. it's how it should continue to work.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Dunderhead:

Aye, but if they're using offline mode for so long, are they really that integrated into the steam community? I can't pretend that there's no examples of just that, but I hardly see the use of custom URLs for people who don't go online once in years.

And if relinquishing custom URLs have been forgotten for so long... Yeah, that's depressing.

They don't need to use the community. I know plenty of users who just play games.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/1700542968204406923/

[Acetango]

Originally posted by Rockon:

Originally posted by Dunderhead:

Aye, but if they're using offline mode for so long, are they really that integrated into the steam community?

They could be, but it's not a requirement to have a custom url.
If the one you want is taken, you have to find a new untaken name, that's how it works, and imo. it's how it should continue to work.

It's not a requirement to have a custom URL - all the more reason for URLs to be forfeitable after a few years of no apparent interaction.

And if your refrigerator has an awful smell to it, working around said odor is a poor alternative to cleaning the fridge up.

[The End]

Originally posted by Dunderhead:

Originally posted by Rockon:

They could be, but it's not a requirement to have a custom url.
If the one you want is taken, you have to find a new untaken name, that's how it works, and imo. it's how it should continue to work.

It's not a requirement to have a custom URL

No, but if a person want one, he is free to get it, no matter if he is active or not.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Get a Tardis and go back to when custom URLs were added and make dozens of accounts to claim all the ones you want.

Or pick a different one.

[zZzooey.exe]

On topic of custom urls i wish they would forbid anyone to have it set to "me". Everything else is fine.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by Dunderhead:

It's not a requirement to have a custom URL - all the more reason for URLs to be forfeitable after a few years of no apparent interaction.

And if your refrigerator has an awful smell to it, working around said odor is a poor alternative to cleaning the fridge up.

It isn't a requirement to have a specific URL either.

Someone else using said URL doesn't effect you like the odor from a fridge does.

[Acetango]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Originally posted by Dunderhead:

It's not a requirement to have a custom URL - all the more reason for URLs to be forfeitable after a few years of no apparent interaction.

And if your refrigerator has an awful smell to it, working around said odor is a poor alternative to cleaning the fridge up.

It isn't a requirement to have a specific URL either.

Someone else using said URL doesn't effect you like the odor from a fridge does.

They're both annoyances (granted fridge odors could indicate health hazards). They both can be dealt with.

If someone has not accessed steam online in years, they are more than likely not going to miss whatever URL they chose. It seems hilarious that we're so willing to dance around it being an issue (regardless of how small it is) and pretend that there is no room for improvement, or the consideration of it.

[cinedine]

Why would you want a URL that you don't know where it has been listed at? For all you know you could get one of a known scammer.
Or one from a dead person who's profile is used to remember them.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by Dunderhead:

They're both annoyances (granted fridge odors could indicate health hazards). They both can be dealt with.

If someone has not accessed steam online in years, they are more than likely not going to miss whatever URL they chose. It seems hilarious that we're so willing to dance around it being an issue (regardless of how small it is) and pretend that there is no room for improvement, or the consideration of it.

Odor is an issue and a sign of a larger problem. Someone having the URL you want, is not.

You wanting to live at 777 Drive instead of 776 drive, but you were too late to buy 777 drive is not an issue. Even if the owner doesn't live there, they still own it and no one is going to sell it to you.

You want a URL, the other person wants to keep their URL. Just because they have not been on is no reason for you to be able to take it from them.

You are going to have to fine a far better reason then that, if you want to justify taking a URL that another user has.

For them: If they have that URL tied to their twitter or other accounts, for advertising or what not, then you take it, that would create an issue for their other accounts. They could be blamed for something you did on your account as well, as they had links to it on other services/sites.

[Martin Harris]

People purchase games on here, you don't have to be part of any community to use this platform.

[Winged One]

you are sort of creating an issue where one isn't present.. if someone else has one you want, pick another one or don't use one at all..

[76561198001062896]

sorry but no

does the custom url really matters as much to you?

you are not entitled to take someone elses btw, no matter how much you try not to make it look like a case of "only me can have this shiny stuff, not othery"