So in these last days I've been thinking about making a second steam account, because of all my double game keys I have, mostly free games like woodle tree adventures that EVERYONE has. Then I thought I could use it for other things, but there are many cons and pros that I'm still insecure about and wanted to have a general opinion here.

Pros:

  • Idling cards for free duplicate games
  • You can use it as a bot (trading cards 1:1 mostly with other people, or other stuff) and as storage for important items
  • You can get more event cards (if the level is high enough) during steam events for your main
  • You could smurf (i guess? i don't play online games)
  • You can double the " you can buy 10 games max in a hour limit"
  • Girls like bots

Cons:

  • New accounts are limited, you have to put or spend 5$ on it (you can't use market on anything so only steam wallets work)
  • You have to put time in it
  • You have to link it to another number or 15 days of trade hold

What do you guys think of it? A lot of people have a secondary account for cards and other things that they use as a bot, but I don't know if it's really worth it in the end. Are there more pros and cons that I didn't list?

Pool is obvious, maybe

Edit: there was another thread like this open and I didn't see it, will wait for the gib to have more entries then I will close it :<

8 years ago*

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Do you have a secondary Steam account?

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8 years ago
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...how didn't i notice it

8 years ago
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What can I say? I'm a trendsetter...

8 years ago
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You can link it to the same number. Be aware though that getting VAC banned on one account will ban all accounts that share the same number.

8 years ago
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8 years ago
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BUMP

8 years ago
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Can you delete me from blacklist

8 years ago
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Sorry but I have a strict policy for blacklists. If someone wins one of my giveaways and doesn't thank me after he won, has a bad ratio, and he gives games to a group of friends for exploiting systems, I blacklist them. And you pass all of those.

8 years ago
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I do have one but never use it. Made it a long time ago as a secondary for tf2.

8 years ago
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I don't really see a good reason to be bothered to create a second account. There are no real benefits in my opinion. Also, changing accounts while selling trading cards in the Steam App would be really troublesome.

8 years ago
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the 5$ limit isn`t really a big problem
i used a paysafcard to transfer money to the second account, bought a gift in the store and sent the gift to my main account - problem solved

another number isn`t true - you link both to the same one...or you could just wait and the 15 day hold drops to a 1 day hold

8 years ago
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I have one and it's paid itself back in CS:GO drops over time.

It's also very, very handy for organizing your inventory in CS:GO, as Valve doesn't let you re-arrange items, so you have to trade back and forth between yourself.

8 years ago
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Closed 8 years ago by Narga95.