Anyone know anything about Steam?

[Hackney]

For some reason on Football Manager I have to have a "steam" account.
So, when I went to play it the other day after a long break, I went to open the game and....

"Could not connect to Steam networrk
This could be due to a problem with your internet connection, or with the steam netwrork. Please visit www.steampowered.com for more info"

But I can't do anything else, assuming the log on is correct but not getting options to check / change the password.

When I go to steampowered.com I have to create another account and post a question. Which, after two days, hasn't been answered. Really pd off that an account I never wanted can prevent me playing a game that I want to play, seemingly due to their issues.

Any suggestions?

[Tycho]

How did you get the game? Physical DVD or download. If you downloaded it then you should have set up a steam account. If not then just create an account. Steam is great as it makes it easy to patch the game and use a single id to download and play multiplayer on different games.

[Hackney]

I have a physical copy of the game which I installed many months ago and played successfully. (With associated Steam account)
When I went to steampowered.com I couldn't log on with the details I'd used to set up a steam account in order to get help, so had to set up another steam account for their forums or whatever bo****ks they do.

Steam may be great for lots of things but if I just want to play the one game I have on the Mac it seems an unnecessary hinderance.

[Mashedpotatoes]

It's H2O in its gas form. Next question please

[ben5732]

send a support ticket to them for a lost account they will ask you to send them a picture of you're CD key for the game and will reset your logon details. my steam account was highjacked by someone in China many moons ago...