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hyperunknown Mar 16, 2023 @ 7:45am

Change Account addition

Hi. The new feature where you can change account without logging out and logging in is great, however you only see the last 5 accounts. I run 7 steam accounts (on the same email address, soon to be 10) so I can switch between separate characters on DayZ. Even with the new function I still have to add account and enter password. The function itself is great, but could you increase it?
It only takes like 1/5 of the screen horizontally and you could increase it even in the vertical plane, so how about just .. I don't know, no maximum showed or something, please? :)

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Satoru Mar 16, 2023 @ 7:56am

I don't think steam is going to make you running your personal bot/scam army

Gwarsbane Mar 16, 2023 @ 8:22am

They have to cut it off somewhere and 5 makes sense. If they move it to 7, someone will want 9 and so on...

They shouldn't care about people with a bunch of bot accounts. They should care about average families, which are usually 2 adults and up to 3 children.

hyperunknown Mar 17, 2023 @ 5:09am

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:
They have to cut it off somewhere and 5 makes sense. If they move it to 7, someone will want 9 and so on...
They shouldn't care about people with a bunch of bot accounts. They should care about average families, which are usually 2 adults and up to 3 children.

Originally posted by Satoru:
I don't think steam is going to make you running your personal bot/scam army

@satoru @gwarsbane - IT's not botting, I'm running each single, I don't have them online at the same time, there's no additional software etc. I guess I just have more money than I can spend, and choose to spend it on games.

Cathulhu Mar 17, 2023 @ 5:13am

That still does not explain why you need multiple accounts.

hyperunknown Mar 17, 2023 @ 5:39am

Originally posted by Cathulhu:
That still does not explain why you need multiple accounts.

Because I like to have several bases and not have to run over the whole map to get there after farming. What you think about that, if I'm "lazy" or whatever is completely irrelevant as there's no rule that you can't have several accounts, or even a max amount of accounts. The bottom line is there's no rules being broken.

hyperunknown Mar 17, 2023 @ 6:13am

Originally posted by Rotan:
just make one of your bot accounts a porn account and your good :)

That could mean so many things and I have no idea which lol :p

Tito Shivan Mar 17, 2023 @ 6:28am

And no matter where Steam sets the limit, it's never going to be enough for some people.

-Why is the limit 5 when I have 7 accounts?
-Mmmmkay We'll make it 10.
-10? But what about people who run 12 accounts?
-Jeez... Ok it'll remember 15.
-But 15 is not enough for those of us running 25 accounts!
-GOSHDARN... THERE YOU GO IT'LL KEEP ALL THE ACCOUNTS THAT EVER LOGGED. HAPPY NOW?
-BUT NOW IT'S A MESS!!! WE NEED A SHORTER LIST!!!
-...

hyperunknown Mar 17, 2023 @ 8:48am

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:
And no matter where Steam sets the limit, it's never going to be enough for some people.
-Why is the limit 5 when I have 7 accounts?
-Mmmmkay We'll make it 10.
-10? But what about people who run 12 accounts?
-Jeez... Ok it'll remember 15.
-But 15 is not enough for those of us running 25 accounts!
-GOSHDARN... THERE YOU GO IT'LL KEEP ALL THE ACCOUNTS THAT EVER LOGGED. HAPPY NOW?
-BUT NOW IT'S A MESS!!! WE NEED A SHORTER LIST!!!
-...

True enough, but unless you're on a C64 there's a lot of space left graphically to increase it ;D
It's also not a matter of having to code a lot extra to make it function (I've been coding Assembler since the early 90's, and other languages as they were invented, so yes - this is accurate).
Also, 5 is a very low number, 10 seems more logical. While they're at it, why not just do 20 or more, what's the harm?

gparty Mar 17, 2023 @ 10:58am

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:
They should care about average families, which are usually 2 adults and up to 3 children.

That poor 4th child though

Maybe they'll buy a second PC, 2x5 accounts to switch.

Tito Shivan Mar 17, 2023 @ 11:11am

Originally posted by hyperunknown:
True enough, but unless you're on a C64 there's a lot of space left graphically to increase it ;D
It's also not a matter of having to code a lot extra to make it function (I've been coding Assembler since the early 90's, and other languages as they were invented, so yes - this is accurate).
Also, 5 is a very low number, 10 seems more logical. While they're at it, why not just do 20 or more, what's the harm?

Steam has the stats to know where the median in mutliple account usage per device is. But aside to that there's probably other factors accounted in deciding the final number. I'd bet Steam simply doesn't want to ease the friction on usage of large number of accounts in their platform.

Five accounts lie in the perfect spot between a single user and a moderately large family (Mom, Dad, and 3 kids)

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[?]legit Mar 19, 2023 @ 1:54pm

Seems like an unnecessary restriction to me. More accounts should be allowed for the log in, I don't see a reason why that needs to get restricted.

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photonoxx2 Jul 29, 2024 @ 2:12am

Hi,

I know this answer come very late after the battle, but, a workaround is to switch to big picture mode which doesn't seem to be limited (at less with 11 accounts)

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