OK, so I have two Steam accounts. I have my primary account, which I use to play games, trade and so on. The other one is a backup account which I mainly use to store free games for card idling. As you may or may not know, you cannot use Steam market if you haven't made "a valid Steam purchase that is between 30 days and a year old with no recent chargebacks or payment disputes." (that's a direct quote from Steam).

I have two questions:
1) What happens to your account if you haven't purchased a single game during a 1 year period? A) The account will be terminated. B) You won't be able to access Steam market until the end of the universe. C) ???
2) If I happen to buy a game from my secondary account, am I at risk of getting banned, because of using my credit card information that was used to purchase games from my primary account?

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1) Nothing happens, enjoy your second, restricted account.
2) No. Just pay them, they like money.

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1) I don't think the account will be terminated, you just won't be able to use the Steam market.
2) I don't see why you would get banned because you use the same credit card. I don't think there is a rule for owning more then one account (not sure though), so unless there is, you won't get into trouble.

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I am not sure whether it is strictly against the rules to have multiple accounts or not. But Steam has implemented Family sharing option a while ago to discourage people from creating multiple accounts.

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Well my card is registered both on my and my sisters account and we share our libraries etc. Its been months and I didnt have any problems.

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Do you have separate computers or do you both use the same one for Steam?

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We have 3 pc's and both accounts are often used in all of them.

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You see, the Steam, they listen to the rap, which gives them the Half-life. With their hippin' and a hoppin' and their bippin' and a boppin' so they don't no what the third one is all about. You see, multiple accounts are like Jello Puddin'. No, actually they're more like Kodak film. No, actually multiple accounts are like the new Coke, they will be around forever. Heh heh heh.

C'mon, little fella, you like to buy games. What do you think Steam bans are made out of? Multiple accounts? No, actually it's more like Kodak film. See, there you go, questions are answered. Oh, I'm going zip zop zoobity bop.

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Haha, I had a great time reading this. Thanks for a creative answer.

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Closed 9 years ago by Rim1.