Can you edit a game's hours with SAM?

[The Evil]

Ex. Use Steam Achievement Manager to change the hours I have in a specific game to be whatever amount I want

(Sorry if not the right place to ask lol)

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

I use IdleDaddy[play.google.com] or Archi's SC Farm to idle games myself.

[HikariLight]

No. The hours are hard locked in the database and are not client side.
The hours are mainly there so Steam can tell if you are within the refund time window.
Any manipulation of the hours could lead to refund abuse.
Also idling your hours is kinda worthless.
Unless it's for the trading cards, idling is useless.

[Alexandre76]

this is Legal to do this ?, but whatever it's your account use it at your own Risk

[HikariLight]

SAM stands for Steam Achievement Manager.
All it messes with is achievement data.

[Azure Fang]

Originally posted by Alexandre76:

this is Legal to do this ?, but whatever it's your account use it at your own Risk

There is no law against padding Steam statistics in any region of the world that I know of, so yes it's legal.

The question you should be asking is if it's allowed by the Steam Subscriber Agreement. And the answer to that is... yes. There is no clause against padding hours as any such clause would also harm users simply sitting at a menu for hours on end. Be it idling a menu, using an idle tool like IdleDaddy or SAM (which can be used as entering an achievement list initiates "playing" status), or editing another game's transmitted appID to appear as another game (for example, people used to use TF2 to transmit Steam's appID so that they logged hours on the Steam client itself), it's no foul by the agreement as it's all done through proper API channels.

[Developer]

So you can change your hours with SAM with no consequences?

[PaulKrawitz]

Someone has 17.000 hours in a Garfield game...

[Adam]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.