Allow us to change Steam Account Name (login name)

[The Witcher]

I would like to suggest the option to change steam account name.

[Brujeira]

Not possible for technical reasons. Do a Google on the problem if you want to know more.

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

Check one of the many topics on this subject, it's not doable and no one but you a ValvE employee and the scammer you might give it away to can see it.

[Cathulhu]

For free or not, currently it's unlikely to happen as it's not a trivial task and no Valve employee was interested in doing that for several years.
Check the currently existing requests for being able to change your account name.

[Theblaze]

Originally posted by Albus:

I found a person on reddit who changed the account name (with print proving it). Therefore, you can change the account name.

No, you cannot, and it was likely his profile name not his username.

[AmsterdamHeavy]

is it impossible for a SQL admin to change records? No, it isnt. So it isnt "impossible"

Is there a front end to do it? Nope, doesnt seem like it because of the reasons below.

Manually editing records is time consuming and introduces risk of making a mistake and corrupting the database.

Sooo...time consuming, risky, and not to mention pointless would be the actual operational reasons they wont do this.

...and I dont blame them one tiny iota of a bit.

Originally posted by Albus:

Originally posted by Theblaze:

No, you cannot, and it was likely his profile name not his username.

No. It was his username. He posted a print. Search for "I was able to change my Steam login name" (reddit). Not only he... more people changed too.

You dont have any kind of proof of this. They could just as easily show screenshots from 2 different accounts or edit an image. Dont be gullible.

[Theblaze]

Originally posted by Albus:

Originally posted by Theblaze:

No, you cannot, and it was likely his profile name not his username.

No. It was his username. He posted a print. Search for "I was able to change my Steam login name" (reddit). Not only he... more people changed too.

So, whats prevent you from doing the same as the guy did?, whats the point of this thread then if you CAN (according to the reddit post) change your steam username?

Also why would Valve waste their time by making such article if you can change your username by contacting steam support?.

[AmsterdamHeavy]

Originally posted by Albus:

Originally posted by Theblaze:

So, whats prevent you from doing the same as the guy did?, whats the point of this thread then if you CAN (according to the reddit post) change your steam username?

Also why would Valve waste their time by making such article if you can change your username by contacting steam support?.

MAYBE because I saw after created this one here???

Look dude, there are people who claimed that they have had legit VAC bans lifted as well.

None of them were ever true. It is FAR more likely someone made another account and a story and you ate it hook, line, and sinker.

If youve never had to deal with a gigantic, ancient, ad-hoc database, you dont know what youre talking about.

[AmsterdamHeavy]

I really hope they arent manually editing records for that degenerate nonsense.

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

It's 100% fake, there is absolutely no way to change a username on a Steam account.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

No one currently working for Valve has this on their to do list. MikeB left ages ago and this is what Jay had to say way back when...

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

[ecznos]

No one is able to see your account name anyway. Why do you care so much?

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by ecznos:

No one is able to see your account name anyway. Why do you care so much?

If it is anything like the other same topics that were posted (prior to searching), it's because they "chose a cringy name back when i was just a kid". In either case, there is no reason for the change.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by ecznos:

No one is able to see your account name anyway. Why do you care so much?

I should remind y'all that back in July 2015 Steam had a bug with their password recovery page on their site which allowed hijackers to at least kick people off their Steam logins, if not gain access (due to Steam Guard thankfully preventing them).

All those hijackers needed was the login name.

Nowhere does Steam tell you to keep your login name secret, even though you should.

Unfortunately, if hijackers have already discovered your login name...well, now you're screwed on that front.

Steam SHOULD allow people to change their login names. And it IS technically possible for them to make it possible, since it's just data management after all. It's just how much of a hassle it is for them and when they'll get around to making it possible.

[Nx Machina]

Sony allowed users to change their account name on PS4 but they clearly stated that not all information was guaranteed to update correctly.

I did the change as a test and found several flaws with the process, such as trophy information been out of sync etc.

They were able to revert the process stating that all information would be corrected which turned out to be true.

Account name changing in theory is a good idea but needs to be guaranteed that it is 100% effective.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Albus:

Originally posted by The Living Tribunal:

If it is anything like the other same topics that were posted (prior to searching), it's because they "chose a cringy name back when i was just a kid". In either case, there is no reason for the change.

I can list a number of relevant reasons for change (deadname, married name etc) but I don't see the need for it. Besides, the reason why I would like to change it's personal matter.

None of that is actually relevant. They are literally cosmetic issues that have no practical reason as again, only you see your login name. So if your login name is penislover12 then no one but you will know that regardless of how cringeworthy it is.

Originally posted by Kusa:

Sony allowed users to change their account name on PS4 but they clearly stated that not all information was guaranteed to update correctly.

I did the change as a test and found several flaws with the process, such as trophy information been out of sync etc.

They were able to revert the process stating that all information would be corrected which turned out to be true.

Account name changing in theory is a good idea but needs to be guaranteed that it is 100% effective.

Unfortunately it will never be 100% effective with all the games that integrate into steam and the complexity of the database. Unfortunately they made a poor design decision when they made your account name the primary key of the database and changing that is just too risky for a 100% cosmetic enhancement.