Re: Got my original Steam account back!

"FoolsGold" <fg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:13ad9cret57p026@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A short story - please read if you've got some time, it's an insight into
my brain-damaged and warped mind:

Several months ago, I decided to pack it all in and move entirely to
Linux, or at least attempted to. I've wanted to for some time, being the
idealist and geek that I am, and figured I could get things working better
than they do in Windows. Despite being a gamer, I felt I could still play
anything that was native in Linux and use Wine to run the rest. At the
time I posted as much, and I believe John Lewis referred to me as an
"elitist", which was fair enough.

As part of the move, I tested Steam via Wine and found that while many
Valve games sorta-worked, they either had annoying issues (eg. GoldSrc
games like the original Half-Life and CS1.6 had an audio lag of about 1/2
a sec, which made gunfights rather stupid), or lacked features I knew my
system could handle but Wine didn't facilitate (eg. HDR support). Also, a
lot of non-Valve games I had in Steam but didn't work in Wine meant that
if I wanted to run Linux solely (which was my intention), I had to put the
hammer down and remove the temptations to move back to Windows.

Consequently, and this is the important bit... I DELIBERATELY SABOTAGED my
login to my Steam account by changing the email and password to something
random, something I had no chance of remembering. You can't easily delete
accounts (fortunately I suppose), but you can make it difficult to gain
access to an existing account, which is what I did.

You were drunk qwhen you did that, weren't you? That really sounds like one
of those drunken committments people normally wouldn't make, like getting
married in Las Vegas.

A couple of months later, I repeatedly punched myself in the head for such
a brain-dead move. Who the *** moves to Linux for ideological reasons,
particularly a gamer? I could make an entire thread about the issues I
faced, but in short, it wasn't worth it; it's just an OS, a series of 1's
and 0's, and I know my way around Windows exceedingly well not to get
buttfucked. So, I move back to Windows, and decide to create a support
ticket to request a password reset on my Steam account.

The only dabbling with Linux I ever had was when I made a shitload of money
on RedHat stock (which went from teh $65 range to about $300 in a couple
months at one time). I sold it, then promptly lost my ass in biotech stocks
when the market crashed in 2000.

I get a response a day later saying the account had been hijacked, and I
had to ensure my system was clean of viruses/trojans/keyloggers before
they'd let me back on. They also threatened to permanently deactivate the
account should I become hijacked again. At this point I jumped onto Usenet
and blasted Valve. But - Valve actually had a legitimate reason... one
that also HAD occurred to me yet I failed to mention here. :)


A month or so passes...


I was getting bored, and my self-imposed boycott of Steam/Valve was
pissing me off, so I opened a support ticket and asked nicely for my old
Steam account password to be reset. I also asked for the reason why they
thought it had been hijacked. As it turns out, the act of changing my
password/email to random letters all of a sudden, and then sometime later
asking for my password to be reset, basically flagged the account as
having been hijacked. I didn't have the heart to mention it was me who
messed with the account, so I left it at that.

It ultimately was my own actions of being a total dumb*** that cased the
problems which occurred to me. I was pissed at being threatened with
account deactivation, but I had brought it upon myself and Valve were
simply protecting themselves from wasting time on people who DID have
compromised accounts. Since I know I'll never be hijacked and won't ***
up again (since I ain't moving to Linux ever again, particularly since
Valve have recently enforced their position to not make Steam for Linux),
I responded saying yes, my system was clean.

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/5831/steamfn2.jpg

It's been a long time since I saw the G-Man. :)

While I know there are definitely flaws and some licensing issues with
Steam, I really ilke it. It patches my games, makes it easy to find online
servers, I don't need my discs to install games on multiple computers, and I
can buy games online through it (albeit with really shitty download speeds).

turk
--
Then take it into your own hands, Mr. Bush. Go to Baghdad now and fulfill,
finally, your military service obligations. Go there and fight, your war...
your self.
--Keith Olbermann, July 19, 2007


.

Quantcast