Many of us have lots of different gaming accounts on different platforms. An account can be phished and hijacked, passwords and usernames can be forgotten and lost, email or phone can be inaccessible, etc. There are probably other ways to lose an account.
Nobody lives forever, and game accounts often state that you can’t leave the account to your heir(s), but they don’t control who can access the account.
I want to make sure that my accounts aren’t lost when I’m gone, but I also want to make sure that I can easily recover them in case of an emergency. So I would like to collect ideas about what people do on Grouvee to secure their accounts and make them easy to recover.
I’d like to hear stories about how you managed to get your account back and where it wasn’t possible. Do you have any tips and tricks for recovery? Have you made provisions for when you are no longer around? Do you have an account that you gave up trying to recover because you could not find a way to do it? Have you lost access to items on an account or access to individual games, how did this happen?
We’ve been seeing more and more posts on Steam from people who have lost access not to their Steam account, but to a 3rd party account like EA or Ubisoft, and are stuck in limbo between Valve and the other company because the account linking is done on the other side, and Steam can’t unlink accounts or games, rendering paid games unplayable forever.
One way to lose access to games and items can be a game or VAC ban. I have not played multiplayer games for some time now, but I would be afraid to play them on my precious Steam account for fear of an unwarranted ban appearing on my account. Do you think this is an unnecessary fear or do you use a second account for multiplayer? Do you use Steam Family or not because of the risk of getting banned?
I lost my Minecraft account because I missed the window where you had to convert it into a Microsoft account. I wasn’t playing it at that time and not reading about gaming news and then it was just gone and I had to buy the game again.
When I was addicted to World of Warcraft getting that account deleted for good was really hard to accomplish. I had to send a copy of my passport to Blizzard and then still a lot of back and forth writing happened until they deleted it. I guess with newer privacy laws at least in Europe that would be easier to do today. Did you delete gaming acounts and was it easy or hard to do? Why did you decide to do it? Would you prefer your accounts to get deleted when you are gone?
I have to admit that I did not do much to secure my accounts except for using a password manager and 2FA where available and I have not done anything to make sure they won’t be lost when I am gone yet, but I am in the process of doing so (besides making a last will and a patient decree, really everyone should have that). A friend of mine died not long ago and I witnessed how hard it was for his family to get his online life deleted or get his gaming accounts for his children recovered and I helped with that.
Last one: Do you make a copy of your Grouvee data regularly? 