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the Friends box says "Friends - guy-in-corner". How is this not my steam ID?
The steam ID is the user name that you used to sign into the steam when you first set up steam. Since it gets saved on that computer, you may have long forgotten what you signed up for steam as. You can find it again by going to Steam Settings and selecting "login as different user".
In my case, the place where it says "Monkey Brains", (same place it says guy-in-corner on your screen), that's the name I use when I'm playing counter-strike, it's what I've entered in the NAME box within the Counter Strike game itself. My steam ID is tfabris, not Monkey Brains.
For clarification, there are multiple different identifying marks in Steam:
- Your email address that you signed up with (or updated later).
- Your Steam ID that you signed up with.
- Your in-game name (set in the options screen of that game, can be changed on the fly).
- Your Friends name (set in the Friends user profile, possibly pulled from one of your in-game names by default, not sure. Can be changed on the fly.).
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