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Steam is a platform for managing and launching Windows (and now Mac) based games. You will need to have Steam installed in order to run specific games if the game depends on it. There is nothing you can do about a game that requires Steam as that is the way the developer or publisher designed it.

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Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by the Valve Corporation. It is used to distribute games and related media online, from small independent developers to larger software houses. Steam also has community features, automated game updates, and in-game voice and chat functionality.
As of 2010, there are over 1,200 games available through Steam, and over 30 million active user accounts.[4] Although Valve never releases sales figures, Steam is estimated to have a 70% share of the digital distribution market for video games.[5]
Many major publishers have catalogues on Steam, including id Software, Bethesda Softworks, Electronic Arts, Activision, 2K Games, Ubisoft, THQ, Sega, Codemasters, LucasArts, Capcom, Rockstar Games, Firaxis and Square Enix.

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open your library, right click the game, towards the bottom of the menu is a button labeled "delete local content". This will remove from your hard drive.

As a side note: if you have a lot of steam games and are running out of space, i'd recommend getting an external hard drive and installing your games to the external hard drive.
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After i put in the cd key all its says after verifying it is "steam server is unavailable your computer is either currenty unable to reach the Steam servers or service maybe temporarily disabled....

Have you installed Steam in your computer?If not, maybe the game need steam to be installed in your computer before you can start playing the game. If you will need to download steam. Here is the LINK.
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Your going to need to contact steam they will send you a new username and password,then you can get your code back.Or they will find your old one.

When you registerd with steam you used your e mail address for verification,this is all you need to get your account info back.

Also steam is only a middleman you must of got the game from one of steams providers,like digital download,or someone else.Check with the game manufacture also,E A games or whoever made it you would have had to create an accout there to get the code.
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Please try this it will work (hope so ) First u need to verify integrity of game cache

1. Load Steam
2. From the My Games tab, right-click on the game and select Properties from the menu.
3. Select the Local files tab and click the Verify integrity of game cache… button.
4. Steam will verify the game cache files (GCF’s) – this process may take several minutes.
5. Once the process is completed, the Check Window will automatically exit.
6. Run The Game

And if you want to play in offline mode, you simply make sure you are not connected to the internet, run the game and a box from the STEAM program will appear with a selection box with play in offline mode, click this and you away. Biggest problem is you will need to connect to the internet on a regular basis to log in to your steam account so steam can verify your login details, so therefore it is not totally offline, which for me is **** because i havent got the internet connection at the moment and i can no longer run the game in offline mode.

I hope this will sove your problem.
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I have the same problem.when i put the disk in, nothing comes up.

Sounds like you need to find a graphics driver for you video card. So do that first this would have nothing to do with steam as steam is a matchmaker device only it has nothing to do with the fuctionality of the game.

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This error message indicates that the game server which you are attempting to connect to is unable to contact the Steam Authentication Servers.
Please observe the following process to determine whether the error is a result of a Steam outage, issues with the game server connecting to the Steam Authentication Servers, or an issue with your internect connection.
  1. Try joining several different game servers - if you are able to connect to a different game server, there is an issue with the game server which reported the Server Verification Failed error
  2. If you are not able to connect to any game servers, check the Steam Status page - if the Steam Players and Game Servers graph shows a very sharp decline in players, there may be a temporary Steam outage
  3. If there does not appear to be an outage, check your connection to the Steam Authentication Servers through the Steam client:
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  4. If Steam reports that you are not connected to the authentication servers, please exit and restart Steam and, if you are unable to connect to the Steam Authentication Servers upon logging back in and you have confirmed that there is not an outage, please see the Router and Router Firmware Issues topic to ensure the issue is not related to router firmware which is incompatible with Steam
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