steam and different accounts

i wondered if it was possible.... (here goes)

i have football manager installed on a steam id i have had for years... i wonderd if i set up a new steam id i could install the game and use the same product code as the other account???

any help anyone please???

Nope, once it's linked to an account you can't unlink it.

oh my god how **** is that... so if i want it on another account am gonna have to buy the game again?? or steal a product key from somewhere?

Why would you want another account, out of interest?

oh my god how **** is that... so if i want it on another account am gonna have to buy the game again?? or steal a product key from somewhere?

Steam = Beyond gay.

Learn from the mistake and buy a boxed copy You can't really blame Steam for the rule though, because you'd open the whole system up to piracy.

I'll personally never use Steam as it's invasive and pointless. "Oooh I get a skin and updatez"

coz i used to play a game called counter strike and i cheated on it years ago and i want that game again but am banned from secure servers so i need a new account

Invasive? Steam is a lot, invasive isn't one of them.

i did buy a boxed copy but can i use my product key from my boxed version on another steam account?

I guess you could talk to Steam and ask if they're prepared to transfer your FM to a new account. I rather suspect they won't though, they tend to take a dim view of people who've cheated. Wallhacks FTL...

Thanks for the fascinating insights to Steam - no more of them are required in this thread. We all know some people like it and some people don't so lets just leave it there shall we?

Cheers.

Thanks for the fascinating insights to Steam - no more of them are required in this thread. We all know some people like it and some people don't so lets just leave it there shall we?

Cheers.

Fair enough

I sort of sympathise with the OP though. I bought The Sims 3 for my fiance which required you to enter the key for access to the website and downloads. However, the website botched the key entry. Sadly, I couldn't use the key again and the game was unable to update from online - essentially killing the game off.

So I have a healthy mistrust of online activation programs!

Suggestion though - is there a way of transferring the account from one Steam to another if the same details were used to register both accounts? World of Warcraft offers that facility as long as the account holders are the same with the same card used.

I'd have spoken to EA about that - sounds like a fixable issue, I think?

Although as it was the Sims I guess you weren't too crushed...

Not with FM, I don't think - we don't take credit card details so it wouldn't be possible...

One thing you can do is simply use Steam's backup thingy to backup FM and just copy it to some external media so you'll always have it if you'll need it.

Anyway, that's just for backup in case you can't "access" FM, to actually play it, you don't NEED Steam, simply run fm.exe and you don't even need Steam running.