I'm just curious who has multiple accounts, and why you have them. Wouldn't mind seeing a few of the more impressive alternate accounts either.

With my own alternate account, I use it for farming bundle card games when I already own it on my main. Also let my family use it for playing Plants VS Zombies (which they are playing at this moment).

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i have 20 and i use them to win a lot on steamgifts :). jk i have one acc and im surprised by all the card farming no wonder i cant get booster packs D: when all these alt. accs. are eligible for the most part

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If you actually use those other acounts to join giveaways on Steamgifts then you are a faggot.

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did you even read what he put, JK = Joke, and the important bit "i have one acc" = he has 1 account, read before post

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JK = Just Kidding...

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bloosh100: Wow, thanks for being an asshole to everyone.

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did you even read what he put, JK = Joke, and the important bit "i have one acc" = he has 1 account, read before post

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shame on you! -.-

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i have 2 accounts 1 main and 1 for smurfing on dota2

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what is smurfing?

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When you get banned while playing a competitive game, you use the smurf account to wait out the ban.

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SOunds rather pointless and tedious to boot.

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or rather to play with his newbie friends without risking a lot of lost matches on his main account, because internet points.

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smurfing = creating new DOTA 2 ACC?Guy,pls...go home,you're drunk like you can't smurf in League Of Legends or any other MOBA game...

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The term is not even associated with MOBA games...

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can mean many things but my smurf account is used to practice different heroes im not so good at

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I have an alternate account from when I tried the CS 1.6 Beta. No idea what account it is though. :P

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Why would I want two accounts? That's stupid.

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Farming cards from bundle games, farming item drops in games like Team Fortress 2 when it allowed text mode drops, maybe just setting up a account just for fun, like the Captain Picard account.

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Why would I ever want to pay for a game twice just to have it on another account and farm cards? You fucking serious? And I don't effin' play Team Fortress anymore. It's 15 fucking GB on the HHD. Nor would I ever make an account to play any other f2p game on it? I'll stick to my original assessment: IT'S STUPID.

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There are "certain" games that don't need to be installed so you can farm cards. In other words, you can run some games (that give cards) without having those games installed on your HD.

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Tell me where do i have my second account? This is my only account, get your facts straight.

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My first account just have 2 old games and a friend gift me CSS and G'mod to a new account so now i have 2 account, that's not stupid...

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I have eight, though they're rarely used. They're largely for card idling, but I might add CS:GO to a few of them in the future.

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They all have very similar names and passwords. If someone found one, they'd find all of them, though there's really no practical purpose because I've already taken all the cards. Last time I logged onto one was about three months ago, though.

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I have like ten for card idling and sale voting manipulation

I have shortcuts like: C:\Steam\Steam.exe -login "[username]" "kJCUR?Hm/U&4uKts@Le.QDofS+=Y~w#b" :D

for each account :P

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I've considered having a second account for extra games with Steam Trading Cards, but in the end, I'd rather just give them away to someone who doesn't have it all.

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Same here!

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But activating a game with cards on an account that you don't use won't let you get the booster packs.

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I already have the games on my main, and I've gotten boosters from my alt before. Not many, but a few.

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I get more boosters from alt accounts than on main account :D

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But do you use it? I believe you have to log in weekly to remain eligible? I was thinking of those that activate the card game on the alt, farm the cards, then not log in until the next farming session.

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I have two accounts
the other is empty, i made it for my brother, so he uses that one when I'm not home
And planning to aactivate some bundle games for him too
well is more like his account really

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only have one and that because I'm a 2cool4you..... OHHHHHHHH~ dis!

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Oh you :3

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Only the one, I'd be stupid enough to try and buy games on both of them if the case be.

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I created one to do something in Winter Sales of 2011(to get that old coal. I miss that coal :( ) which it was to trade something with someone. I never had any friend, so I created one myself! Now I see no use for that account, even tough I still know its password.

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I also have a 2nd account for getting cards. Technically it was my first account which I made 8-9 years ago but I lost it until recently.

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Yes, I have 2 Steam accounts. Started the second one at a time when I didn't know about this place, and didn't have many Steam buddies to give stuff away to either, so when I had some unwanted keys I made account #2 and put them on there. At the same time I also wanted to keep my first account clean, only wanting to have games on it that I was really interested in.

Since then my alt. account has into a card farming account and I will now activate any old crap on my main account. :p

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I get more value from extra bundle keys by trading them for a ToD ticket, or another bundle game I want, than farming the cards from them.

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I would usually do this, but trading bundle keys is such a chore! So sometimes I just use them on an alt account. Besides, it helps to level them up to level 5 before the next event. That way I'll be able to vote with them and get the event cards.

That, and if I'm lucky enough, I get booster packs :P

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This!

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But effort. I'm still sitting on a bunch of bundle keys in my ignored trade topic.

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i have 2 account, also for farming cards and tf2 and dota items

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I don't have any alt account.

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Probably i have the second one. At 2006 (or 2005), i've opened my first account on Steam but after that i forgot what was that and what was the mail address. So, after i buy HL2/CSS retail at Feb 2006, i've created this account.

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same for me.
First account for HL², second one when I bought the orange box.
I'd like to merge them if i could, to bring back CSS & HL² deathmatch to my main account, with my nearly 9 years of service badge.
But as it's not possible, I use them both when I want :

  • when I have money on my wallet and I want to buy a game without using it
  • to vote for community events (yeah, that's cheating... but give me the opportunity to merge my accounts and I'll stop)

I'd be able to make a lot of card by using my leftovers from humble bundles on this account, but I don't.

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Nice try, undercover mods!

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I have 1+5x4/2+2/2-6 accounts.

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I think you're trying to say you have one account, but if you actually follow Order of Operations you're saying you have 6.

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Yep. I forgot parentheses*. :c I'm all kinds of fail tonight.

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Ten accounts, should probably create more :D

For bundle crap that no one wants
Idling free weekend cards
Boosters
Voting on sale events for cards

Some games have made far more profit than selling would've :D

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You don't get cards from free weekends. :D

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:D

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Actually you MAY be able to get. There's no 100% guarantenee. :D
More like 50-50, either you can or you don't.

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He's right, I got a few cards from CoD Ghosts free weekend. Later I tried the same with Payday 2, nothing.

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Only have one account. My GF and daughter also have their own accounts and I'm taking any card/booster they drop. I also have a friend to whom I give some leftover keys from time to time and he gives me back the cards he gets from them.

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+9001..

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I have one alternative account that holds some TF2 items (garbage) that didn't fit on my backpack at the time and some that have expired already.
Ps: I just checked, the account hasn't been opened in over a year :P

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So all these accounts you see with all these cards are probably extra accounts. So how do you Farm cards from these accounts if you don't have much in them, buy them?

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How do you mean? Not sure I understand.

I buy a lot of bundles, I like them. Many times games are in more than one bundle so I end up with spare Steam keys for these games. If the game in question is one that gives trading cards then I'll put it onto my alternative account. From there I just run the game for a couple of hours on my laptop so that the cards are given out. I then offer my main account a trade, asking nothing in return, gifting the cards to myself.

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