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Will Factorio account lose Steam membership status if game will be removed from Steam account?

Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2024 11:39 am
by zkrallex
Ok, it's a bit weird question.

I bought the game on Steam and, since I live in Ukraine, it's super cheap. Now I want to buy game again for full price from Humble Bundle. I know that Steam Support can remove games from accounts. Not sure whether they'll do this if I request them directly tho. Still, I want to ask them to do so so that I can buy game from website for $35 and get Steam key to activate the game on my Steam account again.

I think that, since Steam allows for refunds, there should be some checks verifying whether you own the game, but I just want to make sure that after Steam Support will remove ownership from Steam account, I'll lose access here as well.

Re: Will Factorio account lose Steam membership status if game will be removed from Steam account?

Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2024 3:03 pm
by vinzenz
That‘s very nice of you, I’d recommend you just gifting the steam key to a friend instead of going through all this trouble. It should work though…

Re: Will Factorio account lose Steam membership status if game will be removed from Steam account?

Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2024 4:08 pm
by zkrallex
But I have no friends...

Just kidding. Thing is, all my friends already have it. And I don't really like the idea of random giveaways. Not to mention there's not much people who don't own the game yet.
vinzenz wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 3:03 pm It should work though…
There's one way to tell for sure I guess. Hic sunt dracones.

Upd.: it did. Turns out Steam has a button on when you click on the purchase and select specific item to remove that item from account w/o refund. I did that. I didn't lose access on website immediately, I logged out and in and only then saw a message that "it doesn't seem like you have game anymore so we unlinked your account". After that I just purchased it on website and everything went smooth.