purchased Steam account?
Hello,
First I will explain what exactly happened:
About a year or a half ago, my parents bought me a Steam account with a single game on it. They didn't know that buying Steam accounts wasn't legal, or how else to buy games online. At first, I didn't think much of it and simply changed the account password and email, thinking that would protect the account from being stolen by the seller. Recently, I remembered and googled what to watch out for when buying a Steam account. Then I read that the seller could potentially report the account as stolen to get it back. Or the seller would get caught by Valve, and my account would be banned.
I now have 13 games on my purchased Steam account, including many free games and a few purchased games worth a total of about €35. The most played game is Realm Royale, with about 70 hours. For the other games, the save game isn't as important.
Unfortunately, my parents no longer remember which retailer they bought the account from. I assume it was a wholesaler. The account currency was Argentinian ARS. I'm now worried that the seller will steal my account at some point or that Valve will ban it.
Therefore, I plan to create a new Steam account and activate all new games on this account in the future to minimize any potential loss. The problem is that if I want to play games from the purchased account, I have to log in to Steam again, since you can't be logged in to two Steam accounts at the same time.
So what do you think of this idea? What would you do? Is it possible to transfer saved games to the new account? And what about free games? Can I just continue playing them on the new account, or is the game data linked to the account, even for free games?
I appreciate any serious response.
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35 Euro is quite little value on a Steam Account.
Enter your own account with a mail address that belongs to you and does not disappear (school or company email address would be doof),
Make correct information there (name, age, phone number for 2FA(?))
Then register your new games there in the future and link the free one again (game stand doesn’t matter?).
See if you like to miss out on the old games in the future, or maybe buy them a new one in the sale, or if you like to play them.
In your case, I would recommend you create a brand new Steam account and activate all future games on this account. Unfortunately, you can’t transfer your game levels to the new account as they are bound to your old account. Even with free games, the game data is usually linked to the account and cannot be transferred to a new account.
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I would advise you to create a brand new account and buy your games there in the future. For the future: It is never good to buy a game account, no matter what platform, from others. 35 euros aren’t too great. You can buy the games either on Steam Sale or you can check on Steam Key sites to see if it isn’t even cheaper.
Or another option: you connect your two accounts by family library, then you can also access most of your other account’s games. But if the account should be hacked at some point, you’ll probably lose access to the games and have to buy them again.
That’s exactly what I’ve done with the family bibilotheque. Do you know if you start new game levels from your new account or are you playing with the same game levels from the old account?
The 35 Euros are unfortunately already included as Steam Keys, so it is not cheaper.
I also have 2 accounts and played on both cs:go and rocket league. In both cases, the levels were Ranks separately, i.e. again from 0 on the new account. Now these are competitive games, so it may be different in other games. I don’t know that.
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You don’t need a new Steam account. After 1.5 years, nothing happens.
Accounts sold with a game are nothing unusual. There was no private person behind it, but a trader who will certainly not make the effort to get the cheaply sold account back after so long. Nothing will happen to Valve.
I wouldn’t say. I have my own account where I haven’t been online for almost 2 years from a Brazilian. There are always reasons why you are not online. In my case, it was pregnancy, child and extremely poor PC.
And what does that have to do with my answer?
But where does he say he is 100% white from where the account is? He suspects it. Basically, these are all just guesses. It’s also Banane who’s right. Basically, the point is that you should be a bit careful with purchased Steam Accounts because you do not know the origin 100% ^^
You obviously don’t understand that it wasn’t a private account anyone created for himself. Dealers create accounts abroad and buy cheap games to sell these accounts as cheap Steam poisons from abroad can no longer be sold to the whole world. There’s only one game on these accounts. No one will get this account back.
If one of the ones buys a Steam account from anyone, still the danger runs to lose it. Above all, the buyer does not know 100% of where the seller has it.and even after years this said buyer can lose the account (if he should be hacked) to the original owner.
the Savegames can easily secure that are stored in the folder. that is not a problem to use on another account.
a second account is definitely sensual, I would personally also make before I have hundreds of games and then he’s gone.
ok that with the Savegames I will try, that is, the game data are not directly linked to the account, thanks for the tip
yes they are in the Steam folder at the respective game if it is installed.