Making a steam account - bad if user name and community name are the same?

[0186279]

So Im about to make a steam account. I read that in order to add friends you had them with their account name, but then I read that it is bad if your account name and community name are the same...but what does it matter?

Thanks.

 

[Flash SWT]

Your actual Steam account name will be an email address. Your community name will be a user definable (and changeable) nickname.

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[0186279]

Your actual Steam account name will be an email address. Your community name will be a user definable (and changeable) nickname.

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Actually I just signed up and my account name isnt an email address. Hmm...

 

[Flash SWT]

Actually I just signed up and my account name isnt an email address. Hmm...

OK interesting. Guess things have changed since I created my Steam account back in 2003!

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[0186279]

OK interesting. Guess things have changed since I created my Steam account back in 2003!

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Lucky, I would prefer mine to be my email address.

 

[Flash SWT]

Lucky, I would prefer mine to be my email address.

Well it did create problems back then. When people changed their email address they lost the ability to recover their password (because Steam usernames can't be changed). Thankfully at some point they added an additional "Contact Email" option.

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[Sambo110]

I don't see much of a problem. Just verify your email (in preferences), which means to get access to your steam account they also need access to your email.

 

[Flash SWT]

I don't see much of a problem. Just verify your email (in preferences), which means to get access to your steam account they also need access to your email.

Huh? I'm talking about how it worked back in 2003 and 2004 when Steam was new and there was no option to change your email address. This has obviously been fixed since then as I just mentioned.

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[0186279]

I don't see much of a problem. Just verify your email (in preferences), which means to get access to your steam account they also need access to your email.

How would that help? To login all you need is username and pw...right?

 

[Mackilroy]

ozreth: It doesn't matter if your account name and community name are the same.

And you might as well set it so you don't have to keep entering your password to log in (yes, all you need is your email and password).

 

[0186279]

ozreth: It doesn't matter if your account name and community name are the same.

And you might as well set it so you don't have to keep entering your password to log in (yes, all you need is your email and password).

Ah thanks, but I ended up making them different anyways, just to be on the safe side.

 

[nhexima]

It's just a good idea in general to keep your login info and your community name separated, just to avoid the possibility of someone hacking your account.

Once you have an account set up, you can give your profile a custom URL (steamcommunity.com/id/username) which is the easiest way to inform and connect friends.