I would suggest keeping the old account as a memorial or something, maybe a visual reminder of service... after it gets redistributed.
We will happily allocate hours played ourselves as a custom option

There was never a rule about multiple accounts. You did that to yourself.

We literally were prevented with a steam prevention stating you are not allowed. You got a link for that source?

Originally posted by ElecTrain:

We literally were prevented with a steam prevention stating you are not allowed. You got a link for that source?

We can't speak to what you claim you saw, memory can be crappy, and without seeing the exact error it's hard to know if you were interpreting it correctly. It can be pretty hard to find a link for something that never existed. Also since this household account limitation thing is your idea and your claim, it's your job to prove it. So I would say if you can't find any evidence for your claim, you might have to chalk it up to confusion or misremembering. I mean it can be pretty hard to remember things from 20+ years ago. Plus we were all a little dumber twenty years ago too.

Valve never wanted people sharing accounts. Never. That would be bad design and literally would have caused Steam to fail, especially given the DRM and account limitations. There would have been gaming news articles from here to Timbuktu about gamers wailing about all the problems that account limitations caused, especially since we're talking Counter-Strike and Half-Life 2 being seriously impacted by that limitation. But I think you're going to have just as much trouble finding those news articles as you would any Valve resource.

What you will find from back then is people complaining about needing to be online to activate HL2 though.

Since your premise doesn't seem to be based on reality, it kinda undermines your whole request to manipulate that sort of data between accounts.

Seperate accounts for *each* user was/is the optional solution ... And many folks have multiple accounts. It was never against the rules to limit one per household.

What got gained on one account is not owed to another.

Plus that you entirely made up that you were forced to share an account. Absolute nonsense.

i have been a part of steam for longer than you have

there was never anything that said only one steam account per house

i have three sons that all have accounts as well as mine and my ladies

not sure what it is you thought you saw or read

but you are/were mistaken

there is no separating the time used from one account

and you will endanger yours if you try and tell support that you were sharing it

it is against the eula and they could close it

Originally posted by ElecTrain:

We literally were prevented with a steam prevention stating you are not allowed. You got a link for that source?

You made the claim, you provide the source.

Keep in mind though that account sharing has ALWAYS been specifically against the rules.

Originally posted by ElecTrain:

My brothers and I shared an account before Steam let you create multiple accounts per household. We would like our old account redistributed, and years of service accredited to us as is fitting for veterans 20+ years.

Will not happen.

Originally posted by ElecTrain:

My brothers and I shared an account before Steam let you create multiple accounts per household. We would like our old account redistributed, and years of service accredited to us as is fitting for veterans 20+ years.

That sounds like a wonderful way of making new accounts look 'old' to try deceive people.

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

Originally posted by ElecTrain:

My brothers and I shared an account before Steam let you create multiple accounts per household. We would like our old account redistributed, and years of service accredited to us as is fitting for veterans 20+ years.

That sounds like a wonderful way of making new accounts look 'old' to try deceive people.

correct

That's not going to happen.