What are they? How do you obtain one? And what are they used for? +rep to whoever can help me out first!
Steam accounts are usernames for steam games such as Counter Strike CS:CS CS:S HalfLife2, etc you can get 1 by downloading steam from steampowered.com and running and installing it and following instructions and there used to login to steam oh btw an account is free but the games arnt
no the account is free but you gotta buy games... they sell the games at some discounts too CS1.6 CS:CZ +deleted scenes for $15 is my fav
Ok lets say I have Guild Wars. Which Cost money to play. So I obtained a friends copy, could I then play this with a Steam account? Or would I still need to but the cop or w/e?
nope, steam only covers certain games like every one developed by valve http://storefront.steampowered.com/games.php ^list of individual valve games there are also packages and 3rd party game^