Steam problem - 'This account does not actually own this game'

King4aDay · 1 Oct 2006 at 22:10

Hi all,

Have been trying to play CSS tonight and keep getting kicked from servers with some message along the lines of 'This Steam account does not own this game. Please log in again with a difference account.'

Have tried logging on and off, and the Steam forums seem to be fubared for me at the mo so I can't check there for answers.

And yes, before anyone asks, I am a fully paid-up, genuine owner of HL2 and CSS lol.

djcj · 1 Oct 2006 at 22:12

Been happening to me too, i checked earlier and there are a million and one threads about it on steam forums so its not a problem on your end, its yet another valve screw up :rolleyes:

neocon · 1 Oct 2006 at 22:14

Same here

This Steam account does not own this game.
Please login to the correct Steam account.

King4aDay · 1 Oct 2006 at 22:15

OK cool not just me then. Guess we've just got to wait for Valve to put down the donuts and do some work

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neocon · 1 Oct 2006 at 22:20

http://www.unf.no/HE-MAN-AND-THE-MASTERS-OF-THE-UNIVERSE/EPISODE1/PIC999-SKELETOR-******-OFF.JPG

neocon · 1 Oct 2006 at 22:27

other people appear to be playing.

Gatsby · 1 Oct 2006 at 22:50

Same thing happening to me as well

el_dazza · 1 Oct 2006 at 22:58

Played a CS 1.6 5v5 earlier, 9 of the 10 players got booted, including me. We tried to play the game 4 times and didnt get past 3 rounds. :mad:

kbc · 1 Oct 2006 at 23:06

Steam has been getting worst and worst, it's almost utter dog poo. First their friend's list never works and secondly, adding servers to favorites just randomly disappear on next bootup. And now this problem all night of saying I don't own the game. :rolleyes:

Their forums are always dead as well... LoL...

AmaTeX · 1 Oct 2006 at 23:07

Has not happened to me but is still as frustrating as there is no one to pwn.

Energize · 1 Oct 2006 at 23:17

Valve/Steam is THE worst system ever, theres always something wrong.

el_dazza · 1 Oct 2006 at 23:23

Yep, friends doesnt work, history for servers dont work.. favourites disappear, and it tells you a game you've had for 3 years doesnt belong to you. Yea...

R.O.S.S.I · 1 Oct 2006 at 23:35

Steam isnt the worst thing ever, it doesnt ALWAYS have problems. But granted when they do come along they are a pain. No doubt it will be fixed by tommorow, surely you can hack one day without games?

DaveyD · 1 Oct 2006 at 23:37

Christ people do throw their toys out the pram a little roughly when they don't get their gaming working for a few hours.

It's a problem with Steam, I'm sure it'll be fixed pretty quickly.

ReeceKB · 1 Oct 2006 at 23:55

Valve does it again :rolleyes:

ScarySquirrel · 2 Oct 2006 at 00:14

Energize said:
Valve/Steam is THE worst system ever, theres always something wrong.

I actually think Steam is really good.

Psyk · 2 Oct 2006 at 01:15

I love steam. But then again I only really use it as a game distribution system. I rarely play online.

Reppyboyo · 2 Oct 2006 at 01:26

Oh please, Steam rarely has problems tbh, just when it does it screws everyone`s day.

Im sure y`all can survive a day without CSS.

Xinn · 2 Oct 2006 at 02:26

Steam is a good platform and a good system when it works (big emphasis on this bit

) but when it doesn't it really doesn't lol. Does the friends list still not work? Cant't remember last time I logged on and it didn't say "friends list is down for maintainance" or whatever it says.

steve45 · 2 Oct 2006 at 04:19

ok yes this current problem is extremly annoying we had to cancel a clan praccy and a PCW last night because of it and if it isnt solved by tonightwe will also have to rescheduale a league match.

but it hardly warrents the response its getting, i mean i think steam is a great platform, although it does come with its niggles, but most of these are easily worked around, for example the favourites thing just means you have to exit game, open you server list through the steam control panel, then re-enter game, they shuld be there, if that fails log out of steam and repeat the previous steps.
friends network usually works for me, when it does go down for "maintainence" its only down for half an hour or so.
one thing i would like to see is other payment methods like switch or paypal etc, but thats a whole different matter to be discuss another time.