As my Steam Partner signup saga continues I discover that it affects not just people living in less respected places like me, but also all over the globe. I found a person from freaking Netherlands who has the same issue, verbatim. www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/co... - ThreadSky

yurisizov.bsky.social • 3 days ago

As my Steam Partner signup saga continues I discover that it affects not just people living in less respected places like me, but also all over the globe.

I found a person from freaking Netherlands who has the same issue, verbatim.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1982jmi/creating_a_steamworks_developer_account_as_a_sole/

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yurisizov.bsky.social•3 days ago

Apparently, Steam/TI changed the process a couple of years ago which made it impossible for sole proprietors everywhere to complete the form if their legal entity name is different from their individual name.

Which is a totally normal thing everywhere outside of the US. Fun.

coaguco.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ugh, what now? I had heard they changed the sign-up process. When I wanted to change some minor tax information, they made me go through a whole other documentation process; I'm guessing some US legal compliance.

yurisizov.bsky.social•3 days ago

AFAICT, earlier version of the tax interview made only one distinction: you're a company or you're an individual (with any organization form out there). This made it possible to submit distinct names for your partner name and the tax interview name.

yurisizov.bsky.social•3 days ago

Now if you're a sole proprietor, you're expected to have the same partner name as your real name, even though this is not the case in many many countries. So it is now impossible to register a partner under your legal entity name, because the tax interview doesn't support this circumstance anymore.

coaguco.bsky.social•3 days ago

Hmm, that's strange they don't accommodate this for non-US entities given a ton of their business is outside the US. I don't know that contacting their tax people would make any difference but might be worth a shot.

yurisizov.bsky.social•3 days ago

I dunno who exactly you mean by their tax people, but TaxIdentity, who do the tax interview part, provide dog-water awful support and are completely useless to resolve or explain the issue.

Steam support are way more helpful, but as far as tax goes they say "talk to a trusted tax advisor" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

tarasophie.dev•3 days ago

After I finally changed my legal name to my prefered name.

I wanted to change my steam dev name bc it had my deadname.
Took them 2 weeks, plus discussing a lot and sending them EVERYTHING.

They wanted to have a document containing my old name and new name. 1/2

tarasophie.dev•3 days ago

Due to a german law against discrimination, the document didn't have my deadname on it.

So I needed to also send them my whole family history 💀 where it kinda has both names.

Idk why they didn't accept the official document made to be shown to companies and institutions.
I got it changed tho🙏 2/2

yurisizov.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'm so sorry! This sounds horrible and the exact thing you don't want to deal with. Valve really should have a dedicated branch in Europe to work with partners and devs, so we are not subjected to US sensibilities and bureaucracy.

tarasophie.dev•2 days ago

Thank you and YES, we definitely need a EU branch, especially bc of the current circumstances in the US🙃.

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