Option to Move Licensing for Games Between Accounts

[† Crusader †]

Hey All,

I have 2 separate Steam accounts because my original account was made when I was like 13 and it has an embarrassing username. I have probably $300 worth of games on that account that I family share to my current account, but there is probably 4-5 games that do not show up in my library, unless I switch accounts and play under my older account. Why can't we merge our accounts or transfer licensing between accounts? I own BOTH accounts, I paid for all the games, and there's NO REASON why I shouldn't be able to move assets that I OWN between accounts, or even just a one time transfer of all content to my current account. Steam Support says that games cannot be moved between accounts and accounts cannot be merged. Why is that? Because Steam wants you, the faithful customer, to shell out every last DIME and pay for the same stuff TWICE. Well you wont find me ever paying for a game on steam again. From now on, I will only use discounted CD-Key websites and I will undercut Steam every single time until this is FIXED.

End of Rant, Sorry for that, but it needs to be fixed.

[fluxtorrent]

the account scammers would LOVE this!

[Brian9824]

Nothing to be fixed, basically every digital platform works like that. You can't transfer titles between accounts for Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Epic, Uplay, Blizzard, GoG, etc.

Licenses are tied to the account, and allowing their transfer would facilitate people selling games by transferring their games to other people's accounts and theft. Also no one sees your username but you, so if its embarassing who cares.

[Yzal]

Originally posted by YeetSkeet:

I own BOTH accounts, I paid for all the games, and there's NO REASON why I shouldn't be able to move assets that I OWN between accounts, .

You bought a LICENSE of a game, not a game. A license that is bound to the account it was bought for.

Originally posted by brian9824:

Nothing to be fixed

Originally posted by fluxtorrent:

the account scammers would LOVE this!

So it wouldn't only not fix anything, but it would introduce a very serious problem.

[Valeriya]

You just didn't have to create a second useless account.
I never understood the meaning of having double accounts, what is lack of space?
Each license is linked to the account on which the game was purchased, the same applies to consoles and it is right that it remains so.

[Hamless Hog]

You already have the option to purchase tradable versions of the game.

[Lily McFluffy Butt]

Originally posted by fluxtorrent:

the account scammers would LOVE this!

Fix what ain't broke by smacking it with a sledgehammer.

[wuddih]

Originally posted by Hogarth:

You already have the option to purchase tradable versions of the game.

you don't.

[Seretti]

Originally posted by Hogarth:

You already have the option to purchase tradable versions of the game.

Gifting games ain't the same as trading.

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by Seretti:

Gifting games ain't the same as trading.

Steam gifts were used for trading years before trading existed.

Even now with users not being able to store steam gifts in their inventory is still used for it, although very sparsely.

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Oh hell yeah this is an account information phishers wet dream

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by YeetSkeet:

Hey All,

I have 2 separate Steam accounts because my original account was made when I was like 13 and it has an embarrassing username. I have probably $300 worth of games on that account that I family share to my current account, but there is probably 4-5 games that do not show up in my library, unless I switch accounts and play under my older account. Why can't we merge our accounts or transfer licensing between accounts? I own BOTH accounts, I paid for all the games, and there's NO REASON why I shouldn't be able to move assets that I OWN between accounts, or even just a one time transfer of all content to my current account. Steam Support says that games cannot be moved between accounts and accounts cannot be merged. Why is that? Because Steam wants you, the faithful customer, to shell out every last DIME and pay for the same stuff TWICE. Well you wont find me ever paying for a game on steam again. From now on, I will only use discounted CD-Key websites and I will undercut Steam every single time until this is FIXED.

End of Rant, Sorry for that, but it needs to be fixed.

And this is why it should be possible to just change one's login name.

Originally posted by 𝓑𝓵𝓾𝓮𝓫𝓲𝓻𝓭:

You just didn't have to create a second useless account.
I never understood the meaning of having double accounts, what is lack of space?
Each license is linked to the account on which the game was purchased, the same applies to consoles and it is right that it remains so.

"Make another account and family share the games to it" is actually a commonly-cited suggestion in response to people asking for a way to change their login names.

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

"Make another account and family share the games to it" is actually a commonly-cited suggestion in response to people asking for a way to change their login names.

It's a workaround that offers a workable solution over waiting for a suggestion (which may or may not be implemented. And in regards username change we've been waiting for as long as Steam has existed)

Sometimes a kludge that does something is better than nothing.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

"Make another account and family share the games to it" is actually a commonly-cited suggestion in response to people asking for a way to change their login names.

It's a workaround that offers a workable solution over waiting for a suggestion (which may or may not be implemented. And in regards username change we've been waiting for as long as Steam has existed)

Sometimes a kludge that does something is better than nothing.

Sure, though it should be acknowledged that it's definitely not perfect and can run into some games that are just not Family-Share-able.

But my reply was to Bluebird who said
"You just didn't have to create a second useless account.
I never understood the meaning of having double accounts, what is lack of space?"

This would explain the second account.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by wuddih:

Originally posted by Hogarth:

You already have the option to purchase tradable versions of the game.

you don't.

Maybe they mean giftable copies, which are kept in the inventory. I actually have a giftable copy of a now delisted game, given as a sorry for delaying Sonic Mania for 2 weeks. Never found someone to give it to bit it appears still valid.

[BJWyler]

Originally posted by YeetSkeet:

Hey All,

I have 2 separate Steam accounts because my original account was made when I was like 13 and it has an embarrassing username.

And this is the one you used to post this suggestion?

Regardless, the reasons why this is a bad idea have already been given.