hehe I think we throughly enough trashed valve's database design last summer dont you?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 5:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlds] New STEAM client If it is integral to their systems, it's a piss poor database design. You *never* use something like name/address/email as a primary key in a table. Maybe i can get a job with Valve as a dba? :) I second the request. My primary steam account user name is an email address I abandoned a long time ago, and I too wish I could change it. > -- > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > Depending the implementation of their systems, this may be technically > difficult for Valve to implement - your username may or may not be > something > integral to their database system or its clients, thus cannot be changed > without causing problems. The best way to find this out is to wait from > someone from Valve to reply, or you can email someone at Valve directly - > there is a number of email links on Valve's > People<http://www.valvesoftware.com/people.html>pages. Perhaps even > though a user cannot change their username themselves, > perhaps someone in Valve can do it for you. You could also try Steam > Support<http://support.steampowered.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?p_sid=HoJaWRRh> > . _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
