Steam sale now .... Off

Spacedeck said:
That's nothing.

I shall forever look upon my account of shame.

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The sad part is the games played should actually be much much lower. In the past I've used a program to farm cards, so that added a lot to the stats.
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Wow 5K is that like a lot of games or valuable items, cards etc
 
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Spacedeck said:
@throwaway4372 I have 2FA anyway. Out of curiosity, how do they obtain a profile from just an account name? Wouldn't they need to know at least the email address?
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If you mean how do they find your steam profile from the screenshot - I found yours in 10 seconds via a search engine (and I could have just guessed the url).
If you mean how do they access your account - They'd try to find usernames/passwords/emails leaked from other sites if you re-used them. If you didn't ever re-use you survive. If you have 2fa authenticator you survive (you do).
I remember something a while back about steam usernames being part of the profile url and it being possible to change that, can't remember the details but it's worth looking into, you obvs don't want your username to be public.
Unfortunately steam is designed based on the username so they technically can't remove it entirely (and you can't change username), so we'll always have to be careful with steam security.
Edit: feels kinda creepy I can see your steam friends too, and your first name
Edit2: yeah it's easy to use that info to search and get more info, which I won't mention, internet is very creepy
 
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Kyo said:
Wow 5K is that like a lot of games or valuable items, cards etc
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I do notice a slight difference to their stats and my own on Steam. They have 1,851 games owned, however, on Steam it shows 1,781, so I'm not sure where the others are coming from.

I have nothing of value in my inventory. This is just a result of over 1,700 games, and slightly over 2,000 DLC.
 
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throwaway4372 said:
If you mean how do they access your account - They'd try to find usernames/passwords/emails leaked from other sites if you re-used them. If you didn't ever re-use you survive. If you have 2fa authenticator you survive (you do).
I remember something a while back about steam usernames being part of the profile url and it being possible to change that, can't remember the details but it's worth looking into, you obvs don't want your username to be public.
Unfortunately steam is designed based on the username so they technically can't remove it entirely (and you can't change username), so we'll always have to be careful with steam security.
Edit: feels kinda creepy I can see your steam friends too, and your first name
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I've had this account a long time, settings have never changed other than adding 2FA when it became available, updating password every now and again. I use a password manager for every site, and use long passwords. So far I've never had any issues.

Although I can't see much issue in having your account public if you have made sure to protect it.
 
Mine is set to friends only anyway, but what's the issue with having your steam profile public? Your display name can be whatever you want, so unless for some reason you've set your public display name to be the same as the account username, then what's the problem?
 
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I grabbed God of War Ragnorok and Manor Lords.
Tempted to grab Sins of a Solar Empire 2 as well...


Game sizes are getting out of hand though, Ragnorok takes 190 gb extracted/installed/shadersprecached...

I miss the good old times where tons of game content fit onto 1500mb or so :(. Steam Deck is filled very quickly, now I am tempted to upgrade it with a 2tb SSD as well... Luckily on Pc I have 6tb of SSD's and 25TB of hdd's, but still its silly why a game would need almost 200gb of space...
 
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