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« on: July 27, 2010, 11:51:17 PM »

Hiyas Peeps maybe someone here can help.

I am trying every combo I have ever used on my old steam account, but cant get the password righ, so tried to retrieve lost password.

Anyways I get this email from Valve, does anyone have any idea in English what this statement means.

"Please also enter the *answer* to the following question into the 'Secret Answer' field of the same dialog:
 
    What did customer support last reset your passphrase to?"

If it was what did your last password get reset to I havnt a clue it was like 6 years ago.

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« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2010, 01:05:23 AM »

hmm, the secret question is something you must have written yourself ... customer support resetting your password must mean something to you - did it get set as something rude or funny? Maybe it's in your email history somewhere.

For future reference try to have something personal but memorable - first pets name, or a nice maths combo - i.e "My shoe size * % result in my maths GCSE * time of birth * sum of every house number i've lived in"

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« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2010, 07:10:04 AM »

No Zarf, it really is as stupid as it sounds - I had the same "security question" once and just remembered my actual password in time!

Like you're going to remember a password set by someone else (or a system) ages ago, and where you changed it anyway. This means you'd have to keep a history of password reset e-mails from Valve!

Utterly ridiculous - they make you specify your own personal "secret question" so why not use that!
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« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2010, 07:42:52 AM »

Fuled by a single mug of tea, I have looked at that question and have come to the following conclusion.

That is a stupid question.


You might want to politly point out to Valve that if you have the mental capasity to remember a password set by them over 6 years ago, then you wouldn't be in a position where by you couldn't remeber a password.

Best of luck fella.

PS: I've just had a look through the Steam comunity thing. There are only 2 "earthy" charaters. One of them is listed in Doncaster and was last online 997 days ago. Joined 15th december 2004. This is a silly question, but are you using the right username? Was it all lower case? Did you by any chance print off the accouint page with your user name and password on it when you first brought and installed Half Life 2 and put it in the box?

Might be time to set up a new identity. Good luck fella Smiley
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« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2010, 01:16:56 PM »

This means you'd have to keep a history of password reset e-mails from Valve!

I actually have every email I've ever been sent. Excluding junk mail of course. Comes in handy for times like these but I don't really know why I do it.
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« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2010, 01:20:54 PM »

I actually have every email I've ever been sent. Excluding junk mail of course. Comes in handy for times like these but I don't really know why I do it.
I think I've got 4 years woth of emails saved; mostly confirmation emails of stuff I've bought, but there still the odd thing like password resets in there. Again, don't know why I do it, mainly laziness I think, just CBA to go through and delete everything!
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« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2010, 01:31:34 PM »

See this is the thing, I have every email sent to my hotmail account since 1996, I have 2 emails from Valve/Steam 1 off was from 2005 when I had the same issue and 1 off last night, but, they both had exactly the same new password and exactly the same question.

the Earthy account, even though I used the correct Username and Password was diabled, so cant do shit with that.

Ah well, Ill just wait until Orange box turns up tomorow and create a new account.
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« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2010, 01:36:49 PM »

See this is the thing, I have every email sent to my hotmail account since 1996, I have 2 emails from Valve/Steam 1 off was from 2005 when I had the same issue and 1 off last night, but, they both had exactly the same new password and exactly the same question.

the Earthy account, even though I used the correct Username and Password was diabled, so cant do shit with that.

Ah well, Ill just wait until Orange box turns up tomorow and create a new account.


It should be possible to reclaim an account with financial details, unless you only had retail copies on the account or something
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« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2010, 01:40:12 PM »

I actually have every email I've ever been sent. Excluding junk mail of course. Comes in handy for times like these but I don't really know why I do it.
I think I've got 4 years woth of emails saved; mostly confirmation emails of stuff I've bought, but there still the odd thing like password resets in there. Again, don't know why I do it, mainly laziness I think, just CBA to go through and delete everything!

Gmail makes it easy, enough space to archive everything and just use search to find it again.
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« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2010, 01:45:03 PM »

Gmail makes it easy, enough space to archive everything and just use search to find it again.
There's a search engine with my current provider, I just CBA to do the leg work!
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« Reply #10 on: July 28, 2010, 01:46:29 PM »

I use Thunderbird as the BT online thing sucks.
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