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jaggederest ◴[] No.46199328[source]
Steam also has usernames that can't be changed. They added changing the actual email address associated with your account, but your original email address as account name is frozen forever, for old accounts.

Since 2003!

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1. accrual ◴[] No.46199397[source]
That's wild. I guess I've never experienced it because I still have the email attached to my nearly 15+ year old Steam account.

Some tangently related anecdata: VRChat has a pretty strict email-changing policy. You need to confirm you own both the VR account and the original email account. Reasonable, but can be tricky if you don't have access to the original email anymore. I was able to navigate it but yeah, it's not always simple.