Nombre de la cuenta

[Matthew]

Hola, no se ustedes, pero a mi me molesta un poco bastante el tener un nombre de cuenta que no me gusta. Me gustaría que se pudiera cambiar aunque se que tanto ese nombre como el ID son esenciales para que Steam sepa que usuario eres. Espero que en un futuro se pueda cambiar el nombre de cuenta.

[Gwarsbane]

If you had used the search feature you would have discovered that this has been asked for for a long time but that its more then likely never going to happen because Valve screwed up the database when they first made Steam and now it would be too hard to actually change it to allow that because it could mess up steam so bad that people might not be able to get access to their accounts which would be VERY bad for Valve because all the lawsuits would put them out of business.

So since only you see your login name... big deal. Just don't give it out. Its just something to log into, no one should see it but you.

[Yzal]

Sgto. Mantekilla님이 먼저 게시:

Hola, no se ustedes, pero a mi me molesta un poco bastante el tener un nombre de cuenta que no me gusta.

Y para que miercoles le pusiste un nombre que no te gustaba?

[RamiroRa]

De momento, no te recomendaria esperar, veo dificil que Steam piense en cambiar eso cuando no lo ha hecho en estos años.

[Matthew]

Gwarsbane thank you! its good to know

Lazy dog porque en ese momento me gustaba, nunca te pasó?

RamiroRa ok

[Juanuzy]

(:

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Gwarsbane님이 먼저 게시:

If you had used the search feature you would have discovered that this has been asked for for a long time but that its more then likely never going to happen because Valve screwed up the database when they first made Steam and now it would be too hard to actually change it to allow that because it could mess up steam so bad that people might not be able to get access to their accounts which would be VERY bad for Valve because all the lawsuits would put them out of business.

So since only you see your login name... big deal. Just don't give it out. Its just something to log into, no one should see it but you.

For what it's worth:

1. "only you see your login name" if you've kept it secret. If, like is typical for most other sites, you treat your login name as lower-security because it's your password that actually does the login gating, chances are someone else knows it already, and since it can't be changed again, it's no longer a secret, of course.

For example, it was only in recent years that Valve thought to make the main Steam client window not actually display the account name; previously, anyone who streamed their screen would have exposed their login name. Same with anyone who used their login name as their display name or custom URL.

To be fair, this was actually fine as far as account security went, aside from this one time that Steam messed up their password recovery page. Because protecting the account by gating access is actually the job of the password, not the login name.

2. The idea that Valve screwed up the database has to do with the use of the login name as the "primary key" of the database. The idea is that if they were changing from that system then all uses of that primary key would need be changed. However, the login name doesn't actually need to be the same as the primary key; there are other possibilities, such as making the login name a separate field.

(Some people have argued that without the login name one can't recover an account, but that's clearly not the case since login names are editable on many sites these days that can also do account recovery.)

3. In case something does go wrong, Valve might have a mess on their hands, but it wouldn't necessarily result in lawsuits (particularly enough to "put them out of business"). There is an arbitrarion clause in the Steam Subscriber Agreement for a reason.)

Now, my pointing this out won't make Valve implement this feature any faster. They're just gonna do it whenever, if ever, they will. But I did want to clarify a few things.

[Matthew]

Thank you, Quint