I'm pretty sure I'm done with Steam gaming, haven't launched a game in almost a year, and generally want to move away from DRM.
So I had the idea I could just "give away" my Steam account.

Create a new email address without personal info attached, tie it to the Steam account, remove my payment info from Steam and just post the email and password somewhere (maybe here) for the first lucky person to claim.

Would that be safe, or is it possible to recover the changes I made before and get access to my private info? Or is there a better way to give away my games?

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[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I bought a Steam account back in 2007-ish. I wanted to play HL2 but didn't want to create a Steam account. I thought then, and still think now, that I shouldn't need to create an online account just to play an offline game.

The guy gave me his login information, and then I went in to change the email and all other info to generic info. I've been using that account for 17 years, but I did eventually have to give them real info to buy new games.

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You bought someone else's Steam account because you didn't want to make your own? As a form of protest?

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not as a protest. I just didn't feel the need to create an account for a game, so I bought an account that was already created.

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did HL2 come with the account or did you just buy an empty pre-made Steam profile?

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The game came with the account. I ostensibly bought the game, but the guy gave me control of the account the game was locked to.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

This is more like buying a used game and describing it like that would be less confusing lol