Dr. Righteous
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- Aug 1, 2007
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My Steam account was locked out for no reason.
No messages asking for verification, no nothing. Could not log in. At first I thought someone hacked my account. I check the forums at SteamPowered.com ; There are countless threads of people with the same issue. Suddenly their account won't log in and no help from Valve. I have 3 computers (1 laptop 2 gaming PCs) that have the Steam client loaded to access my account. I couldn't access it from my main PC or my laptop.
My son's computer has it also because he loves to play RTS games. He was telling me he couldn't get Supreme Commander 2 to start. I check it, wouldn't login into steam. But instead of rejecting the login, it would just sit there and do nothing. I logged in and waited several minutes. Finally steam started up. Quickly I checked the account setting and found Steam Guard turned on. I chose to disable it. Then it tells me "server was not able to process request, try again later". IT took me 5 tries before it disabled Steam Guard.
Once disable, Steam started working normally.
I realize Steam Guard is doing what it is suppose to do; keep multiple computers from logging into the account. But this crap was dropped on me without warning and without any permission from me. I was at least able to get it straightened out. There are others that have pretty much lost their account because of this crap.
No messages asking for verification, no nothing. Could not log in. At first I thought someone hacked my account. I check the forums at SteamPowered.com ; There are countless threads of people with the same issue. Suddenly their account won't log in and no help from Valve. I have 3 computers (1 laptop 2 gaming PCs) that have the Steam client loaded to access my account. I couldn't access it from my main PC or my laptop.
My son's computer has it also because he loves to play RTS games. He was telling me he couldn't get Supreme Commander 2 to start. I check it, wouldn't login into steam. But instead of rejecting the login, it would just sit there and do nothing. I logged in and waited several minutes. Finally steam started up. Quickly I checked the account setting and found Steam Guard turned on. I chose to disable it. Then it tells me "server was not able to process request, try again later". IT took me 5 tries before it disabled Steam Guard.
Once disable, Steam started working normally.
I realize Steam Guard is doing what it is suppose to do; keep multiple computers from logging into the account. But this crap was dropped on me without warning and without any permission from me. I was at least able to get it straightened out. There are others that have pretty much lost their account because of this crap.