r/valve • • Oct 31 '22

An obligatory reminder:

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r/valve • • Mar 23 '26

Please use /r/DeadlockTheGame's "Ask for playtest invites here" megathread for requesting or giving away invitations

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r/valve • • 1d ago

Valve's rumored Half-Life 3 project HLX finally gets a public mention

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r/valve • • 1h ago

Is the steam deck worth it

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Im thinking of getting it this christmas, any thoughts


r/valve • • 6h ago

i need help im searching for pack of valve half-life old one opposing force 1 / cs 1.5 and more

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Hello. I am looking for a Valve game bundle—a modified collection that appeared in the early 2000s. It was installed via a single file, and you had to enter a serial key to unlock all the games. Furthermore, it allowed you to switch between the different games from within the game interface itself.


r/valve • • 8h ago

Updates list of games that run on Steamac

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Steamac is a project that run SteamOS on top of Mac OS, and couples that with support for the latest version of KosmicKrisp (Vulkan 1.4 to Metal 4 translation).

It works so well that you have to ask: is Valve working on something similar? I hope so!


r/valve • • 2d ago

Lost my 10-year-old Steam account with all my games over an innocent misunderstanding with support. I’m completely heartbroken and don’t know what else to do.

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Hey everyone,

I honestly never thought I’d be writing one of these posts, but I’m at my absolute wit’s end and feeling completely crushed.

A few days ago, my Steam account of over 10 years was permanently banned/locked. Support told me they determined I am "not the original account owner," closed the ticket, and said their decision is final. Just like that, an entire decade of memories, thousands of hours played, and my entire gaming library are completely gone.

A couple of months ago, I reached out to Steam Support asking if there was any way to change my account login name (I didn’t realize at the time that account names are permanent and can never be changed). They asked for verification details to look into it, but I was away on holiday, got busy, and forgot to follow up in time, so the ticket auto-closed.
When I opened a new ticket recently to ask about it again, I clumsily tried to explain why I had that specific login name in the first place. Back in 2014/2015, when I was just a kid, a friend wanted to gift me a game. Instead of gifting it normally, he set up the account, bought the game on it, and immediately put my email on it so I could play.

I shared this childhood memory in the ticket just giving casual context. But the support agent latched onto that one detail, decided that because someone else technically created the account 10+ years ago, I violated the "account transfer" policy and am not the "creator." They instantly locked the account and refused to listen to anything else.

The thing is, this has been **my personal account for a decade**. My personal email has been on it continuously. Every single game, DLC, and wallet fund bought on that account over the last 10 years was paid for with my own money, using my own bank cards in my legal name. I have all the official bank statements showing direct charges to Valve, the original email receipts, and proof of my identity.
I offered all of this financial proo, but they just pasted a generic canned response saying only the original creator is the owner, and shut the door.

I’m not a scammer, an account buyer, or a reseller. I am just a loyal player who grew up with Steam, made an honest mistake by phrasing an old memory poorly, and now I’m being treated like a criminal who stole an account. Losing 10 years of progress and games over an innocent misunderstanding feels genuinely devastating.

Has anyone ever dealt with a situation like this and managed to get through to a real human who actually looked at the situation with common sense? Is there any escalation path left, or is a decade of loyalty really just wiped out forever over a poorly phrased ticket?
Any advice or help would mean the world to me right now. Thank you for reading.


r/valve • • 14h ago

A essay about The Doorman

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r/valve • • 1d ago

Nurse harrow's transition animation in Deadlock

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after using her ult, she goes from a demon/ evil lady to nurse and the animation is sick af

its like veins are slowly fading away,

and if you look closely at her eyes, the sclera goes from black to a red-ish color which is subtle but amazing attention to detail


r/valve • • 13h ago

Do I need to disclose AI-generated code on Steam?

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r/valve • • 2d ago

I have 250 hours in L4D2 and most will agree(expert realism fyi)

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r/valve • • 1d ago

Account Transfer Loophole?

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What if I buy the steam account under an LLC? I can transfer the LLC to anyone and the LLC would always exist as the user?


r/valve • • 1d ago

Not all Pirates are good or fun

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r/valve • • 1d ago

Just add a second payment option. I don’t want to use my credit card to pay for games but need proof of age.

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Is it really so bloody hard to have a second payment option?? I don’t have a problem putting my credit card in to verify my age, but in will not use it to actually buy anything because of the added fees that come with credit card usage. A second payment option would allow me to still use my debit card for the payments themselves but have a credit card activated in steam for proof of age.

Or allow steam to link to the iPhone age verification system. Or something? There has to be better options this is absolute insanity.


r/valve • • 3d ago

Valve Proton may soon support Intel XeSS XMX acceleration

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r/valve • • 2d ago

New skin for Glock-18| Crimson Ivy V.2

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r/valve • • 3d ago

Steam Deck 2 candidate APU tested with 6 CPU cores and 24GB LPDDR5-9600 memory

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r/valve • • 2d ago

The final solution for anti-cheat

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r/valve • • 2d ago

Half-Life 2: All Good Things | Gameplay Edit

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r/valve • • 3d ago

Finally upgraded my steam machine. Quite an upgrade.

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r/valve • • 2d ago

i think half life and portal are in same universe

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in both series the other is mationd (presentation in portal1 and aperture science logo) and thair presented as competitors i think for US army to create a portal they both manegd to make it but awile the events of portal 1 and 2 black messa has been making thair portal the Resonance Cascade hapend and nobady won
(i hawent played half life 2 or portal 2)


r/valve • • 2d ago

Any idea what game this concept art of the Walking Turrit for #Portal was found in?

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r/valve • • 2d ago

I keep getting matchmaking errors and I don't know why

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r/valve • • 2d ago

Anybody else get this bug when it loads steam information?

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r/valve • • 4d ago

Grave Johnson here.

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"Grave Johnson here. As you may have noticed, me and the lab boys have figured out how to cheat death. Good news is that me and the lab boys are immortal. Thumbs-up for that. Really good for Halloween marketing, too. Bad news? No more skin. Or organs. Real inconvenient for the mandated 5-minute lunch-break. So effective immediately, we're getting rid of the lunch-break. Also effective immediately, necromantic resurrection is mandatory for all employees. Grave Johnson out."

Please enjoy my silly image and writing, happy Ween