On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 22:01, Tony Paloma <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd feel better about that article if there was some proof or citations to
> its claims. All of a sudden everyone's ID went from the Individual universe
> to Public? Doesn't really make sense. I would accept something like "Oh,
> Valve is now trying to adhere to the standard they created." But I'd like to
> hear that from Valve.
>
> Also the whole bit about how Y (in STEAM_X:Y:Z) represents the type of the
> account where Y can be 0-9 is bogus. Also, if anyone replies saying that 'Y'
> actually has to do with the server in which registration occurred or whether
> or not the account was created pre or post-HL2 release (or some other era-
> based explanation) please assume I replied with '/facepalm'.
>
> Furthermore, after looking at it a bit more, that article is inconsistent
> anyways. At one point it says the Y is the type, later it says it's assigned
> "apparently at random."
The information about the "Y" was simply taken straight out of
steamclientpublic.h in the SDK:
// Steam account types
enum EAccountType
{
k_EAccountTypeInvalid = 0,
k_EAccountTypeIndividual = 1, // single user account
k_EAccountTypeMultiseat = 2, // multiseat (e.g.
cybercafe) account
k_EAccountTypeGameServer = 3, // game server account
k_EAccountTypeAnonGameServer = 4, // anonymous game server account
k_EAccountTypePending = 5, // pending
k_EAccountTypeContentServer = 6, // content server
k_EAccountTypeClan = 7,
k_EAccountTypeChat = 8,
k_EAccountTypeP2PSuperSeeder = 9, // a fake steamid used
by superpeers to seed content to users of Steam P2P stuff
// Max of 16 items in this field
k_EAccountTypeMax
};
-Fyren
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