What Are Steam ids?

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What are "Digits" or "Steam IDs"?

You may have seen a lot of sellers or players talk about "Digits." Each Steam account gets a unique ID upon registration. This ID starts with STEAM_0: and there are two variables, x and y (STEAM_0:X:Y).

X is determined by which of the two Steam servers handled your registration request. If server A handled your request, then X is 1. If server B handled your request, then X is 0.

Variable Y is purely sequential. This means that the earlier you registered your account, the lower Y is. Variable Y is the number people talk about when they say "Digits." Steam released late September 11th in Bellevue, Washington (PST GMT -8:00). You can check when a Steam account was registered on their community page.

A layman's guide to digit and registration date relation:
September 10th - 1 and 2 digits
September 11th - 3 and low 4 digits
September 12th - High 4 digits (Above 6xxx) and 5 digits.
September 13th to October 21st - 6 digits
October 21st to February 18th - Email Login 7 digits (22xxxxx and below)
February 18th to Late 2005 - Username 7 digits
Late 2005 to now - 8 digits

The yellow dates and digits above are accounts with Email user names. Steam originally used emails as user names. An email user denotes a Steam ID that is under 22xxxxx. IF you get a account with email and it has access to the orginal email its worth alot more because it shows that you have the email and that gives your a better chance at recovering it. Though its not required to secure an account since most of them have been inactive for years.

Subject: Re: What Are Steam ids? 9/15/2010, 6:34 pm

Very interesting info Very Happy

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