Or to really make sure no one knows what's going on 2 in front and 2 behind.

All that is being banned is official Garry's Mod forum accounts. Steam accounts are perfectly fine. So the pirated just can't get official help to make games. Not much pervention there.

QFT

You are such a noob, 4 digits or less is the way to go.

See, this is a good way to prevent piracy in a game. They get the pirates and they don't harm legitimate users in the process.

Of course, there's some catches in this way, like showing publicly the ID,it's better to encrypt the number.

But overall, very creative.

4 and below are extremely difficult to earn.

Actually it was pretty easy, I just installed steam and got one.

they must have changed how steam ids work. Traditionally lower digit IDs are meant for the professionals who have played for a long ass time.

I've seen one and two digit steam ids sell for thousands.

Yeah.  Funny stuff really.  I find it weird though... how did people get the pirated game to work with Steam?

This confuses me.  Didn't know you could "Add" pirated games to your steam, i'd think you wouldn't want pirated games in your steam.

Now I'm interested on knowing my Steam ID :0