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The Official Steam Community Guide v1.0
Topic Started: Dec 16 2007, 08:19 PM (41 Views)
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This is the all-important Steam Community Guide as you can tell by the title, I'll keep this updated as new questions arise or as Steam changes, which it tends to do sometimes.

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Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation. It is used to digitally distribute and manage games ranging from first-person shooters and RPGs to racing games and cross-genre independent titles. Among its clients are Take-Two Interactive, Eidos Interactive, Introversion Software, Strategy First, PopCap Games, Capcom, id Software, and THQ. As of September 2, 2007 over 200 PC games are available on Steam, and there are approximately 13 million active users

Thats a good basic generalization of what Steam is and what it provides. To sum that all up, Steam is a lot like Xbox Live in the sense that it is an online game distribution platform that has friends lists and many other of the same features of Xbox Live, but this time it's for free. Personally the coolest part of Steam is the whole "Community" part of it, which was newly launched by Valve earlier this year. Part of what makes the Community cool is that you can have groups that have organized game nights on specific games that can rotate around. At least for now Aeronautic Gaming is going to stick too Team Fortress 2 and Counter Strike: Source. As we get more members we could expand outwards too other games that people suggest, I'm open to ideas.

To get started, you can download Steam here. Before you download though, make sure that your system meets all of the requirements, which are as follows:

* Windows 2000, XP or Vista
* 256 MB RAM
* 400 Mhz processor
* 1GB HD space (recommended)
* Internet connection (broadband recommended)

After downloading Steam, the first thing you'll need is some games. You can either browse through the Steam Store or register a hard copy of the game by inputing the CD Key. For the Steam Store you'll need a credit card to purchase a game; then the game starts to download, and thats it. As for the CD Key method, you can actually register any of your games, but only the games that are in the Steam store already are part of the Steam Community, or actually use Steam for it's online capabilities. If you are having troubles with a more specific problem you can either ask here, or check here.

If you want to join our Steam Community, you just have to search for Aeronautic Gaming in one of the search bars. If you are having any problems joining up with our group you can ask for an invite on here.

Just to wrap things up, I just want to say why I'm actually doing this. As a friend and I observed while playing Team Fortress 2 one night, it is a lot more fun to play games with someone you know than just anyone. So the whole point of this group is so that you don't have to play alone when you are online, so you can have more fun playing with someone you know.
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