Got a Steam? Care to share your Steam name?

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My Steam name is "mde12". Very old account of mine. Thinking about getting AC, but I haven't yet. :)
 
GTPlanet - @Jump_Ace
Steam - jump_ace

Just bought AC, so when/if my wheel gets fixed I can try it out. The demo was awesome 👍


Jerome
 
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colic0

I seem to be struggling to get to grips with the game at the moment. Just need more practise! At last I can put the sound back on my monitor as I have had to play GT6 with the sound muted due to the horrific sounds!
 
Bigbazz
Bigbazz
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I somehow doubt this is you (Johan, from Sweden, who doesn't own any racing games on Steam at all), but this is what @Wardez has linked in the first post. I'm guessing this one is you?


Edit: I've just sent invites to the five of you who I've spoken to before who aren't already on my friends list. Hopefully the commonality of name and avatar will make it obvious who I am!
 
neema_t
I somehow doubt this is you (Johan, from Sweden, who doesn't own any racing games on Steam at all), but this is what @Wardez has linked in the first post. I'm guessing this one is you?


Edit: I've just sent invites to the five of you who I've spoken to before who aren't already on my friends list. Hopefully the commonality of name and avatar will make it obvious who I am!
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I accepted your add, I'm not sure what that page is all about, my account has been around since 2004 with this name, not sure how someone else can have it too. It also shows that this other person has had many other steam names before?

This is of course my account profile as it shows on steam - http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970602381/

I don't really understand how it all works.
 
Bigbazz
I accepted your add, I'm not sure what that page is all about, my account has been around since 2004 with this name, not sure how someone else can have it too. It also shows that this other person has had many other steam names before?

This is of course my account profile as it shows on steam - http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970602381/

I don't really understand how it all works.
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It's weird that you have to use a bunch of numbers in that link. It's been so long since I officially created my Online ID. A couple things to consider:

Your account name is different than your Steam ID.

At some point (think it was right around when the Orange Box (Team Fortress 2) released that Valve added the community/Friends features). It was then that I had to officially link my Account to my Steam ID creation. It didn't automatically happen.

My official Steam ID is: StalkerU. That's what my profile name is.

However, you can change your visible ID as much as you want. I could change my visible alias to Paul33993 right now. And that's what everyone on my friends list would see. But my profile name would always be:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/stalkeru

Even if everyone else now saw me as Paul33993. Cause that's what I created as my official ID. Likewise, a hundred people could create a StalkerU alias, but I alone own that profile.

Translation: I think you've created an alias for your Steam account, but never really created a Steam ID. And as such, Valve is letting you apply an alias to your default settings (which is why your link doesn't have ID and includes a ton of numbers in it.)
 
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Paul33993
It's weird that you have to use a bunch of numbers in that link. It's been so long since I officially created my Online ID. A couple things to consider:

Your account name is different than your Steam ID.

At some point (think it was right around when the Orange Box (Team Fortress 2) released that Valve added the community/Friends features). It was then that I had to officially link my Account to my Steam ID creation. It didn't automatically happen.

My official Steam ID is: StalkerU. That's what my profile name is.

However, you can change your visible ID as much as you want. I could change my visible alias to Paul33993 right now. And that's what everyone on my friends list would see. But my profile name would always be:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/stalkeru

Even if everyone else now saw me as Paul33993. Cause that's what I created as my official ID. Likewise, a hundred people could create a StalkerU alias, but I alone own that profile.

Translation: I think you've created an alias for your Steam account, but never really created a Steam ID. And as such, Valve is letting you apply an alias to your default settings (which is why your link doesn't have ID and includes a ton of numbers in it.)
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When I check my account name in the settings it shows up as Bigbazz, and then again my profile (where it appears I can change my name) it also shows Bigbazz. People have been adding me on steam as Bigbazz for years so I don't really know, I've only ever told them to add me by that name, not provided a link.
 
Bigbazz
When I check my account name in the settings it shows up as Bigbazz, and then again my profile (where it appears I can change my name) it also shows Bigbazz. People have been adding me on steam as Bigbazz for years so I don't really know, I've only ever told them to add me by that name, not provided a link.
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It's been too long for me to remember the exact process I did so I can't help you more.

I've been given Profile names that I've sleuthed down the real address for. So people adding you doesn't really mean much. If they're motivated they can make it happen. Plus, maybe this Bigbazz was a recent Steam addition. So it may not have been the biggest problem in the past.

The reason I'm skeptical is just because of the url you provided. Yours is a /profile/000000000000s where most people have ID/letters. Whenever that pops up with someone, I always assume they haven't linked an official ID to their account. So Valve is just giving them a default profile and the user name (on their profile page) is an alias they don't actually own the ID of.

EDIT: So your account name is Bigbazz? My account name is gordansomething (created the account for HL2). Definitely sounds like you never linked an official ID then. My account name and Steam ID are wildly different. And it wasn't until TF2 launched that official ID's happened. And I needed to specifically link it to my account.
 
The same as my GTP username. I haven't got that many games for Steam, mostly been playing TF2 and Portal along with a bit of RaceRoom and Killing Floor. I need to get a graphics card for my PC so I can run newer games.
 
Wardez
btw, we need your actual account name, that would show up like this to link to your page, not your changeable profile name, which I have set to Wardez:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/deargomez

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Add me blokes:
deargomez

GTP user: Steam user

@Zona: FenixGTR
@Bigbazz: Bigbazz
@MaDHaX: MaDHaX
@Apok: csiApok
@ENTERSANDMAN13: ENTERSANDMAN_13
@derekspeare: derekspeare
@ralph89: allen24
@Gabkicks: Gabkicks
@Snaeper: Water_Halberd
@cmbeal317: cmbeal317
@peobryant: peobryant
@JvM: JvM333
@neema_t: neema_t
@HammerBlaster: TheHammerBlaster
@un4givn85: un4givn85
@Coxis: Coxis
@NLxAROSA: nlxarosa
JoeDogs
I'll collate all submitted Steam names here.
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