The highest "Years of Service" badge on steam and why you created a steam account.

4 years old. Joined in 2010 when I read by chance that they were giving away Portal for free :D

My main account is 9 years, to be 10 years on November 16th. Funny thing tough, I have a secondary account that is at 11 years.

It's a long story, but basically a number of years back, when I tried to register my ancient Half-Life Platinum Pack (that I bought back in 1998) to my main account, steam support wouldn't let me. They created a 2nd account for me with all the games from the pack in it(plus they included blue shift, which wasn't orginally part of the platinum pack I had). I still don't really know why they couldn't add the pack to my main account, as support was rather unwilling to explain it.

Anyways, when they introduced the service badges, that account came with a registered in September 2003 badge, even though it was really created in like 2007 or 2006.

Only 9.
should make a private giveaway for those with account 9 years and older

11 years, September 18th, 2003 for me. Was playing mods of Half Life 1, and was forced to go to Steam for server authentication purposes when the standard of the day was use direct IP, or a game server/favorites/browser program like gamespy though there were some other ones I liked better though I don't remember what they were called now as they died off pretty quickly once Steam (and it's derivative services from other companies) became the new standard.

You will find a lot of guys with 12th september 2003 because thats the date steam started to count it.

A lot of accounts are in fact older than that, but there is no way to check for it when you REALLY created your account.

15th April 2004, but this is my second Steam account.

Miembro desde el 26 de Junio, 2011
so a 3 years old badge.
i joined steam to play TF2 when it went F2P... then i see other free games and though "JA! i can play games for free!, not going to spend a cent buying games ever"...

3 years later i have 250+ games on my collection... and i did expend some money to get them...

I think I'm probably a pretty good contender for this, considering I created my Steam account about three hours after it was released :p

As others have pointed out my account says it was created on September 12th 2003, but I may have one of the lower SteamID numbers, if you're using that to determine the winner.

2 years now.

I joined Steam to download the demo for Just Cause 2. I loved it and played it all day long. One day, it went on sale, and I just couldn't resist purchasing it. It was my first game bought on Steam, and 390+ gameplay hours later, I still think it's the best buy I ever made...

Almost 2 years. I don't remember exactly but I think I created my account searching for free multiplayer games.

8 years. Like most of us here, i created the account for HL2 and CS:S.

On the 2015 Valentine's Day, it will be my 10th anniversary. I can't believe it was that long ago when I went on my first date with Alyx Vance in Half Life 2.

Member since 21 November, 2004. Would have been earlier if I did not have so many problems with my internet provider at the time :(

Steam member since 6 January, 2007.

DoD was my game of choice when I registered Dec 12, 2003. A few older than me, but not many.

Congratz to the winner. Just for the curious: Oldest EVER Steam account http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197960265729/. SteamID: STEAM_0:1:0

October '05 here (so almost into my 10th year). WAs playing on Steam quite a while before on a friend's PC, but I didnt have my own PC until I bought my own when starting uni. Like OP, I had a HL2 retail copy that gave me loads of other Valve games.

I am feeling old when I see that I have 10 years (23 March 2004) in service and being in the top 10 here xD

My account is only one year old. But I had an older account which I created to play Half-Life (I think it was around 2005).

I'm only getting my year 6 in 1 month :/ I bought my Orange Box at that time and they were my only games on Steam for about 3 years.

Member since 02 October, 2004 - I bought HL2 before, and I registered after I got internet at home :)

Hm. This thread actually made me go try to retrieve my first Steam account which I had long since forgotten the account name and password to. The e-mail address associated with the account had also been deleted. I decided to try to get it back by recreating that e-mail address exactly, requesting the account ID from Steam, them changing the pw. Surprisingly, worked. Turns out if I had just stuck with that account I would have an account that was started January 10, 2007. So 7 years and 9 months old. Instead I have an account created July 2, 2010. Sad :(

Original account was made because people from an MMO wanted a way to talk to me outside of game and apparently they used Steam to chat a lot. This one was made so that I could play Borderlands with a friend (who eventually became and still is my boy friend).

I'm pretty new at 3 years. It started when I bought a hard copy of Supreme Commander 2, but had to make a Steam account and register it in order to play. Since then, I've amassed a nice amount games. :)

1 year just got it today october 4, 2013