Account Name Changing...

[Valor5]

I was wondering, why isn't this allowed? I mean, I bought a $100 product, thinking I could create a new account, or it giving me serials, and voila, it put the games on an old Steam account! Quite ignorant, I understand, but happend. So, anyone know why VALVe won't allow this?

[oldagerocker]

errrrrr, yes. i completely undrestand what you are saying.... thankyou.
(btw, why would you want to change your account name?)

[Valor5]

To go along with a new name...

[StarMonkey]

Can anyone confirm that when steam first came out, you had to use your email address as a username? I made my steam account a very long time ago, and my username is an old email address - from what I can remember, I had no choice but to use my email address as the account name.
I'd like to change mine because the account name is an email address that I don't use any more. At the moment I'm not too bothered because I've changed the contact email.

[JPack]

Yes, early Steam accounts used the contact email address as the account name.

Eventually, you'll be able to change the account name. Valve hasn't indicated when though.

[StarMonkey]

I thought so, although it was a long time ago that I created the account, I was pretty sure I didn't get a choide to enter an account name.

It's annoying though, because I used my 'spam' email address when I first signed up, so I'd prefer to have a real account name.

[Valor5]

Glad someone here wishes the same thing.

[qdlaty]

Got the same problem as you guys, lets w8 and wish that name change will be in some future updates...

[benpatient]

i switched from cable to dsl and lost my @comcast.net email address, so my account on steam is my old email address. I don't like that one bit.

I did figure out that you can change the contact email, which I did, so hopefully that will be enough of a security blanket for me. It just seems a bit of a crappy way to have set it up. I should have made a new account, because I bought the Silver package through steam, but i already had the HL: Platinum Edition attached to that steam account. Crap. Should have made a new one.

[DiGiTaLiZeD]

Same here. Old email I don't use anymore.