HusKy Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 How? The ID you are using to log into Steam is NOT public and cannot be reverse-searched. The login ID cannot be used to add people to your friends list. No one needs to know the ID because it's useless unless they want to log into your account. And why the hell would anyone from Steam contact you on PSN? 🤔 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatMuttGuy Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 11 minutes ago, HusKy said: How? The ID you are using to log into Steam is NOT public and cannot be reverse-searched. The login ID cannot be used to add people to your friends list. No one needs to know the ID because it's useless unless they want to log into your account. And why the hell would anyone from Steam contact you on PSN? 🤔 Yeah lol. This whole topic is just fishy. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HansPatat050 Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 Ignore the snowflakes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D4T-V4UL7_HUN7R_ Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 What random people on the internet think about your username, or anything else aboout you, doesnt matter. You do you and if they want to waste their own time complaining about it, thats their problem. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryogenicide_X Posted April 5 Author Share Posted April 5 (edited) 4 hours ago, HusKy said: How? The ID you are using to log into Steam is NOT public and cannot be reverse-searched. The login ID cannot be used to add people to your friends list. No one needs to know the ID because it's useless unless they want to log into your account. And why the hell would anyone from Steam contact you on PSN? 🤔 What are you talking about? I never said anything about that. And yes your account name on Steam is public, people can see my Steam name otherwise I wouldn't get comments on it. I also never said anything about people contacting me on Steam from PSN. I said that people from all these different places comment on my username. Edited April 5 by Cryogenicide_X 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HusKy Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 8 minutes ago, Cryogenicide_X said: And yes your account name on Steam is public, people can see my Steam name otherwise I wouldn't get comments on it. The public name that others see can be changed to *anything*. How about you try that? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryogenicide_X Posted April 5 Author Share Posted April 5 24 minutes ago, HusKy said: The public name that others see can be changed to *anything*. How about you try that? That makes no difference, even if you change that it still goes by your original account name which is the name I'm talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruexnimbus Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 No. I'm all for politeness, decency and respect but sometimes you just need to tell someone to piss off. Someone has to do it. If they freak out about it, it's probably because you're their first time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HusKy Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 6 minutes ago, Cryogenicide_X said: That makes no difference, even if you change that it still goes by your original account name which is the name I'm talking about. I'll take the bait. Which name are you talking about? Post a screenshot or something... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InsomniWrench Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 (edited) I'm surprised so many people are just saying don't change it. If my name was a reference to something I might explain what the reference was, if I just had 'genocide' or a word like it in my name for no reason than yes I'd change it if possible. But if I wanted to keep a name and the only option was to delete the account, lose everything, and start over then I probably wouldn't unless there was a chance the account would get flagged or deleted for it anyway. But like others have said, people can't see your Steam ID and you're profile name can be changed so it shouldn't be an issue. Edited April 5 by InsomniWrench Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milktastrophe Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 1 minute ago, InsomniWrench said: I'm surprised so many people are just saying don't change it. If my name was a reference to something I might explain what the reference was, if I just had 'genocide' in my name for no reason than yes I'd change it if possible. But if I wanted to keep a name and the only option was to delete the account, lose everything, and start over then I probably wouldn't unless there was a chance the account would get flagged or deleted for it anyway. But like others have said, people can't see your Steam ID and you're profile name can be changed so it shouldn't be an issue. His name doesn't have genocide in it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InsomniWrench Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 1 minute ago, Milktastrophe said: His name doesn't have genocide in it though. I know, I edited it to say 'or a word like it' since I assume that's where the issue is coming from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowxSakura Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 (edited) 37 minutes ago, InsomniWrench said: I'm surprised so many people are just saying don't change it. If my name was a reference to something I might explain what the reference was, if I just had 'genocide' or a word like it in my name for no reason than yes I'd change it if possible. But if I wanted to keep a name and the only option was to delete the account, lose everything, and start over then I probably wouldn't unless there was a chance the account would get flagged or deleted for it anyway. But like others have said, people can't see your Steam ID and you're profile name can be changed so it shouldn't be an issue. If they know your original name, they can search for it using the friend search function. I use an alias, but you can still find my profile if you know the original name edit: okay if you use an alias, and then go into your profile and clear your aliases, your original name will no longer show in the friend search results Edited April 5 by SnowxSakura Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrHealthy Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 1 hour ago, Cryogenicide_X said: That makes no difference, even if you change that it still goes by your original account name which is the name I'm talking about. You are gonna have to show what you are talking about because what you are describing is not how it works. The public facing profile name (and URL) can be changed to anything you want, and you can remove the mention of previously used profile names. The private account name can only be seen if you show it off yourself on stream or in a video. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 (edited) Should the OP in particular delete their account? No. I guess I can see what would cause some to be uncomfortable, but without further context, it's no different than similar terms such as "Slayer", "Annihilator", "Killer" and etc., which I assume are popular in the gaming username realm and would hardly cause any misunderstanding. Should a person who, say, has a slur on their name or something to that effect, delete their account in such a circumstance? Ideally, but a Steam account is not the overarching problem there. Edited April 5 by Eagle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObsiEez Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 (edited) Your sign in name & your displayed name are 2 different things. People can't see nor search for you sign in name (which you cannot change, & would be stupid if they could for security reasons) but they can search & see your display name, which you can change (they can see your change history though, you have to manually delete those). I'm confused here as like others have said, what you're describing is not how Steam works, even just tested it myself by searching my alt Steam account by the sign in name & got no results. Can you show us a screenshot of what you're talking about? Cause there are clearly some wires being crossed here Edited April 5 by ObsiEez 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver-I-Chariot Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 Just change your name to Cryoholocaust_X, problem solved. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryogenicide_X Posted April 5 Author Share Posted April 5 Okay so I've changed my profile name to SSJ3 for example right. It's made no difference though because look what I have to type in to be found by the public, I still had to type in my account name, Cryogenicide_X to be found and not SSJ3. So Cryogenicide_X is still there anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowxSakura Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 2 minutes ago, Cryogenicide_X said: Okay so I've changed my profile name to SSJ3 for example right. It's made no difference though because look what I have to type in to be found by the public, I still had to type in my account name, Cryogenicide_X to be found and not SSJ3. So Cryogenicide_X is still there anyway. Click the arrow next to your username on your profile and select the clear previous aliases option. Your old username will no longer show up when searching for you 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antiristus Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 No, I would not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryogenicide_X Posted April 5 Author Share Posted April 5 21 minutes ago, SnowxSakura said: Click the arrow next to your username on your profile and select the clear previous aliases option. Your old username will no longer show up when searching for you I have and you still have to use Cryogenicide_X to find me and not SSJ3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowxSakura Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Cryogenicide_X said: I have and you still have to use Cryogenicide_X to find me and not SSJ3. You have to refresh the friend search page, I just searched for your Cryogenicide username and it doesn't show up. I just checked your SSJ3 profile, and you have successfully removed your old alias. You're set now 👍 Edited April 5 by SnowxSakura 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriee Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 I'd rather delete them than my account. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryogenicide_X Posted April 5 Author Share Posted April 5 26 minutes ago, SnowxSakura said: You have to refresh the friend search page, I just searched for your Cryogenicide username and it doesn't show up. I just checked your SSJ3 profile, and you have successfully removed your old alias. You're set now 👍 Oh yeah you're right, thanks for all your help guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadiantFlamberge Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Glad you got this taken care of. Thank God ignore lists are a thing. Someone gives a bad comment about your username or something... plonk them into your IL, keep calm and carry on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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