I have been lurking here for some time now and only conclusion I can draw from this topic is that it should never have happened in the first place. It is a political debate sort of place between commonfolk of the internet that is never going to get anywhere. The mods seem to have given up doing ...

In order to achieve this goal, I took the steps that my game copy's owner did. Except, just at the last step, the game itself refused. To make everything waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay moore complicated, the game refused everything at the last step. And now we are here.
I think you're missing one crucial ...

If you *just* want to change your ingame name, go to options -> other -> LAN player name and change your name.
This will change the name that appears for your character in-game. This method does not grant you a name verified by factorio authentication services (this is the service you have to pay ...

I think you are getting off topic. I want to log in with my account in-game. I posted this topic in the technical help session because I can't. And now there is this arguing about "you just can't" and how blacklists make this complicated. Blacklists make everything so complicated for so few reasons ...

The offer is, that if you own the game on steam you can get permanent access to the game via factorio.com as well; if you own the game via factorio.com you can get permanent access to the game via steam. You do not own the game on either platform so you will not be able to get access on the other ...

Oh, multiplayer and all that stuff. You can use the Factorio account of whoever owns the game. Other than that there's not much you can do because technically you don't own the game .
Thanks( for nothing), but I would pass on multiplayer mode rather than use someone else's identity. (My copy's ...

What are you expecting to do? I can't log in with my Factorio account in-game because it says I do not have access to the game. (Again, not true!) What sort of " Factorio " account is it then if I can't log in inside " Factorio "? That means the creation of my Factorio account itself had no purpose ...

When I tried to link my account on the Factorio website with my steam account I got the following error message:
Linking failed. Neither your Factorio account nor your Steam account have access to the game. Please buy the game either via our website or on Steam.

Actually, what it says is not true ...