transfer Steam games to another Steam id

FredP <fredp.vt.TakeThisOut@verizon.net> wrote:
> Over the last year or so my son has bought some Steam games(downloaded not
> actual CD/DVD's) which I don't play but were bought to go under my Steam id
> and machine which he used. Now he is moving and would get his own computer
> and id. Can we unregister or whatever and transfer ownership of the games
> so they are gone from my id and now appear under his account only?
> TIA.

You can forget it: http://tinyurl.com/ybfphb (the part under "All
Other CD Keys" applies).

Louis
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"riku" <riku.RemoveThis@none.invalid.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:32:06 GMT, "FredP" <fredp.vt.RemoveThis@verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Over the last year or so my son has bought some Steam games(downloaded not
>>actual CD/DVD's) which I don't play but were bought to go under my Steam
>>id
>>and machine which he used. Now he is moving and would get his own
>>computer
>>and id. Can we unregister or whatever and transfer ownership of the games
>>so they are gone from my id and now appear under his account only?
>
> Unfortunately no, because that would allow you to give, loan or sell
> your games to a third-party like any normal CD/DVD PC or console game,
> or DVD movies. Valve does not allow that.
>
> Steam games are not like that, instead you paid $70 for Half-life 2
> just to borrow it from Valve for an undefined amount of time (Valve
> keeps the right to cancel your ability to play your Steam games
> whenever they want, e.g. if and when they ever close the shop in the
> future). Read the EULA for more information.
>
> Remember that transferring the ownership of your Steam account where
> the games are is also forbidden, and Valve has stated they will close
> Steam accounts (and the games within) where the ownership transfer has
> apparently taken place.
>
> All in all, your son should buy the games again if he wishes to play
> them on his new Steam account. Read the restrictive Steam EULA, it has
> all the answers. Hopefully you didn't think you have any kind of
> ownership over the games you bought over Steam, as you do over DVD
> movies and console games. It just isn't the same thing, Steam is a
> whole different beast.
>

I kinda figured that would be the answer about transfers. For myself I
always bought the actual CD/DVDs for Steam games. Had he waited ie; for the
OrangeBox to come out he would of saved some money too on the original
purchase( a deal at CC when it shipped) but now will have to pay double...
Live and learn.
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FredP wrote:
> "riku" <riku.DeleteThis@none.invalid.com> wrote in message
> news:634ph3pt3sj5tnct7ahi77ripghh39udbc@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:32:06 GMT, "FredP" <fredp.vt.DeleteThis@verizon.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Over the last year or so my son has bought some Steam games(downloaded not
>>> actual CD/DVD's) which I don't play but were bought to go under my Steam
>>> id
>>> and machine which he used. Now he is moving and would get his own
>>> computer
>>> and id. Can we unregister or whatever and transfer ownership of the games
>>> so they are gone from my id and now appear under his account only?
>> Unfortunately no, because that would allow you to give, loan or sell
>> your games to a third-party like any normal CD/DVD PC or console game,
>> or DVD movies. Valve does not allow that.
>>
>> Steam games are not like that, instead you paid $70 for Half-life 2
>> just to borrow it from Valve for an undefined amount of time (Valve
>> keeps the right to cancel your ability to play your Steam games
>> whenever they want, e.g. if and when they ever close the shop in the
>> future). Read the EULA for more information.
>>
>> Remember that transferring the ownership of your Steam account where
>> the games are is also forbidden, and Valve has stated they will close
>> Steam accounts (and the games within) where the ownership transfer has
>> apparently taken place.
>>
>> All in all, your son should buy the games again if he wishes to play
>> them on his new Steam account. Read the restrictive Steam EULA, it has
>> all the answers. Hopefully you didn't think you have any kind of
>> ownership over the games you bought over Steam, as you do over DVD
>> movies and console games. It just isn't the same thing, Steam is a
>> whole different beast.
>>
>
> I kinda figured that would be the answer about transfers. For myself I
> always bought the actual CD/DVDs for Steam games. Had he waited ie; for the
> OrangeBox to come out he would of saved some money too on the original
> purchase( a deal at CC when it shipped) but now will have to pay double...
> Live and learn.



Did you try to find out whether you can still do as I said?
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"Shawk" <shawk.DeleteThis@clara.co.uk.3guesses> wrote in message
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> FredP wrote:
>> "riku" <riku.DeleteThis@none.invalid.com> wrote in message
>> news:634ph3pt3sj5tnct7ahi77ripghh39udbc@4ax.com...
>>> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:32:06 GMT, "FredP" <fredp.vt.DeleteThis@verizon.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Over the last year or so my son has bought some Steam games(downloaded
>>>> not
>>>> actual CD/DVD's) which I don't play but were bought to go under my
>>>> Steam id
>>>> and machine which he used. Now he is moving and would get his own
>>>> computer
>>>> and id. Can we unregister or whatever and transfer ownership of the
>>>> games
>>>> so they are gone from my id and now appear under his account only?
>>> Unfortunately no, because that would allow you to give, loan or sell
>>> your games to a third-party like any normal CD/DVD PC or console game,
>>> or DVD movies. Valve does not allow that.
>>>
>>> Steam games are not like that, instead you paid $70 for Half-life 2
>>> just to borrow it from Valve for an undefined amount of time (Valve
>>> keeps the right to cancel your ability to play your Steam games
>>> whenever they want, e.g. if and when they ever close the shop in the
>>> future). Read the EULA for more information.
>>>
>>> Remember that transferring the ownership of your Steam account where
>>> the games are is also forbidden, and Valve has stated they will close
>>> Steam accounts (and the games within) where the ownership transfer has
>>> apparently taken place.
>>>
>>> All in all, your son should buy the games again if he wishes to play
>>> them on his new Steam account. Read the restrictive Steam EULA, it has
>>> all the answers. Hopefully you didn't think you have any kind of
>>> ownership over the games you bought over Steam, as you do over DVD
>>> movies and console games. It just isn't the same thing, Steam is a
>>> whole different beast.
>>>
>>
>> I kinda figured that would be the answer about transfers. For myself I
>> always bought the actual CD/DVDs for Steam games. Had he waited ie; for
>> the OrangeBox to come out he would of saved some money too on the
>> original purchase( a deal at CC when it shipped) but now will have to
>> pay double... Live and learn.
>
>
>
> Did you try to find out whether you can still do as I said?

If my son had bought the physical media there would be no problem. It could
be done but for downloaded software they won't. No big deal... my son has
to learn to not be so impetuous with his money!
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On Oct 19, 8:32 am, "FredP" <fredp....DeleteThis@verizon.net> wrote:
> Over the last year or so my son has bought some Steam games(downloaded not
> actual CD/DVD's) which I don't play but were bought to go under my Steam id
> and machine which he used. Now he is moving and would get his own computer
> and id. Can we unregister or whatever and transfer ownership of the games
> so they are gone from my id and now appear under his account only?
> TIA.

Why not just have him use your account...?
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FredP wrote:
> "Shawk" <shawk RemoveThis @clara.co.uk.3guesses> wrote in message
> news:QNqdnQp3YuzNUIHa4p2dnAA@bt.com...
>> FredP wrote:
>>> "riku" <riku RemoveThis @none.invalid.com> wrote in message
>>> news:634ph3pt3sj5tnct7ahi77ripghh39udbc@4ax.com...
>>>> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:32:06 GMT, "FredP" <fredp.vt RemoveThis @verizon.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Over the last year or so my son has bought some Steam games(downloaded
>>>>> not
>>>>> actual CD/DVD's) which I don't play but were bought to go under my
>>>>> Steam id
>>>>> and machine which he used. Now he is moving and would get his own
>>>>> computer
>>>>> and id. Can we unregister or whatever and transfer ownership of the
>>>>> games
>>>>> so they are gone from my id and now appear under his account only?
>>>> Unfortunately no, because that would allow you to give, loan or sell
>>>> your games to a third-party like any normal CD/DVD PC or console game,
>>>> or DVD movies. Valve does not allow that.
>>>>
>>>> Steam games are not like that, instead you paid $70 for Half-life 2
>>>> just to borrow it from Valve for an undefined amount of time (Valve
>>>> keeps the right to cancel your ability to play your Steam games
>>>> whenever they want, e.g. if and when they ever close the shop in the
>>>> future). Read the EULA for more information.
>>>>
>>>> Remember that transferring the ownership of your Steam account where
>>>> the games are is also forbidden, and Valve has stated they will close
>>>> Steam accounts (and the games within) where the ownership transfer has
>>>> apparently taken place.
>>>>
>>>> All in all, your son should buy the games again if he wishes to play
>>>> them on his new Steam account. Read the restrictive Steam EULA, it has
>>>> all the answers. Hopefully you didn't think you have any kind of
>>>> ownership over the games you bought over Steam, as you do over DVD
>>>> movies and console games. It just isn't the same thing, Steam is a
>>>> whole different beast.
>>>>
>>> I kinda figured that would be the answer about transfers. For myself I
>>> always bought the actual CD/DVDs for Steam games. Had he waited ie; for
>>> the OrangeBox to come out he would of saved some money too on the
>>> original purchase( a deal at CC when it shipped) but now will have to
>>> pay double... Live and learn.
>>
>>
>> Did you try to find out whether you can still do as I said?
>
> If my son had bought the physical media there would be no problem. It could
> be done but for downloaded software they won't. No big deal... my son has
> to learn to not be so impetuous with his money!


Bummer
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FredP <fredp.vt.RemoveThis@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> If my son had bought the physical media there would be no problem.

How so? The problem would be virtually identical. You can move a game
to another account only within the first 90 days after retail purchase
of the game, as the link I provided indicated. After these 90 days, no
go!

Louis
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<slayerman89 DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Oct 19, 8:32 am, "FredP" <fredp... DeleteThis @verizon.net> wrote:
>> Over the last year or so my son has bought some Steam games(downloaded
>> not
>> actual CD/DVD's) which I don't play but were bought to go under my Steam
>> id
>> and machine which he used. Now he is moving and would get his own
>> computer
>> and id. Can we unregister or whatever and transfer ownership of the
>> games
>> so they are gone from my id and now appear under his account only?
>> TIA.
>
> Why not just have him use your account...?
>

OK maybe I'm dumb but I thought the account could only be active by one
person at a time. By chance if I were on playing EP2 and he signs on from
his machine and wants to play TF2 one of us is going to be denied or
possibly yanked or banned if we persist on playing from two active machines
using the same id.
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On Oct 22, 6:03 pm, "FredP" <fredp....DeleteThis@verizon.net> wrote:
> <slayerma....DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1193094954.651362.247060@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On Oct 19, 8:32 am, "FredP" <fredp....DeleteThis@verizon.net> wrote:
> >> Over the last year or so my son has bought some Steam games(downloaded
> >> not
> >> actual CD/DVD's) which I don't play but were bought to go under my Steam
> >> id
> >> and machine which he used. Now he is moving and would get his own
> >> computer
> >> and id. Can we unregister or whatever and transfer ownership of the
> >> games
> >> so they are gone from my id and now appear under his account only?
> >> TIA.
>
> > Why not just have him use your account...?
>
> OK maybe I'm dumb but I thought the account could only be active by one
> person at a time. By chance if I were on playing EP2 and he signs on from
> his machine and wants to play TF2 one of us is going to be denied or
> possibly yanked or banned if we persist on playing from two active machines
> using the same id.

I was under the impression that you don't use the account at all and
were trying to unregister ALL the games and move them over. You're
right, two people using the same account won't work if you use it at
the same time. SOL I guess

Hope the games were cheap.
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On Oct 24, 2:17 am, riku <r... RemoveThis @none.invalid.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:15:54 -0700, slayerma... RemoveThis @hotmail.com wrote:
> >On Oct 19, 8:32 am, "FredP" <fredp... RemoveThis @verizon.net> wrote:
> >> Over the last year or so my son has bought some Steam games(downloaded not
> >> actual CD/DVD's) which I don't play but were bought to go under my Steam id
> >> and machine which he used. Now he is moving and would get his own computer
> >> and id. Can we unregister or whatever and transfer ownership of the games
> >> so they are gone from my id and now appear under his account only?
> >> TIA.
>
> >Why not just have him use your account...?
>
> Steam account transfers to other persons is not allowed AFAIK. Of
> course this does not really matter if you are in the same household
> (Valve has no way of knowing who is using the account), but I assume
> Fred's son has now his own credit card etc. that he'd like to use with
> his Steam account purchases.
>
> If Valve notices from e.g. the credit card change that the account has
> been transferred to third party... who knows how they react to such
> breaches to the EULA. At least in the EULA they retain their right to
> close such accounts.

It didn't solve the problem anyways, but there is no way they would
close an account because they see two different credit cards buying
games, especially if it was obvious to them that Fred and his son are
related. That rule is mostly uninforced... too many situations where
they would be shafting innocent people (parent buying a game for a
child) and too few that would actually be people swapping accounts. If
the game was bought once and only one person is playing it at a time,
Valve has never had a problem with it as far as I have ever seen or
heard of.
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Louis Zwager wrote:
> FredP <fredp.vt.RemoveThis@verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> > If my son had bought the physical media there would be no problem.
>
> How so? The problem would be virtually identical. You can move a game
> to another account only within the first 90 days after retail purchase
> of the game, as the link I provided indicated. After these 90 days, no
> go!

That is not true. My friend purchased HL2EP1 and got stuck and sick
of it (he is very impatient!), so he gave me the CD. I installed it
and it
said (as expected) it was already owened by another STEAM account
and I couldn't play. I contacted them and sent them a scan of the
CD (or something, I think it was the CD) and they transfered the game
from his account to mine. It took about 3 weeks, but it worked fine.

Kevin
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