The accounts on Steam reveal a lot about the favorite games and times of PC gamers. One of these gamers has come across a special find and now wants to ensure that it remains with him. For this, he asks the community for advice.
What does his father’s Steam account show? The player and Reddit user Expensive-Plant-738 posted on r/Steam, asking the community what he should do with his father’s old Steam account.
His father is too busy with work to play with his child and has forgotten that the Steam account even exists. Yet, Expensive-Plant-738 wants to keep it alive “for some reason”.
According to him, the account was created on February 23, 2005, making it over 20 years old.
The last activity took place in 2007, a mere 12 minutes in Counter-Strike – which also accounts for the only 12 minutes of the account. However, the community explains that there could definitely be more behind it than the player suspects.
Here you can see the trailer for the game in which the father of the player invested all his time on Steam:
Dad probably spent more time on Steam than 12 minutes in Counter-Strike
What does the community say about the displayed playtime? The subreddit community explains that the 12 minutes of his father may not reflect the total playtime. His account is so old that for about 4–5 years, playtime was not properly tracked by Steam.
foxtrot_overdrive describes: “Steam did not accurately track playtime until around 2009. I have spent thousands of hours in the original Counter-Strike, but according to Steam, I have only played for 25 hours.”
Other players confirm this in the following comments and also mention their own examples of how their playtimes on Steam could not be accurately recorded due to resets (nesnalica on Reddit) or errors (Anonmasterrace7898 on Reddit).
How do the players respond otherwise? In addition to hints about the playtime, many also try to actually answer the author’s question. He could simply take over the account and use it himself, or at least log in occasionally and briefly play something to show activity so that Steam does not delete the account.
However, a large part of the people reacts less to the player’s find, but more to the statement that his father has no time to play with him. They do not want to let that stand:
- nesnalica: “Damn… You just reminded me to spend more time with my own father.”
- TheMightyDontKneel61: “Most importantly: Remind your father that you ‘work to live’ and not ‘live to work’, because later in life he will regret not spending time with his children.”
- Responsible_Bat_6002: “Find a job, help dad, dad doesn’t have to work so much anymore, spend free time with CSGO… then benefit.”
And then some users in the comments agree on the song “Cat’s in the Cradle” to perfectly convey the message to the player and his father. Many empathize with the author of the post and hope that he and his father might find the time to game together, at least by the time he retires.
Even though the father of the gamer has not spent time on his Steam account since 2007, it is still alive and could be used again at any time. This is also what the player and the community hope for. Another person who seemed significantly more motivated to invest her time and money in Steam made a seller suspicious when purchasing Steam credit. Here, too, the community was able to help: Because an older lady won’t stop buying Steam credit, a concerned employee reaches out to the community – they suspect something is wrong
