Yeah, it's a complete load of crap (at first, at least) that Valve decided to change it for L4D and TF2 - most people just didn't realise and (I) thought that it like, just a new auth server or something. Never having to look at my own Steam ID in L4D, I never saw that my own ID had changed.
It should all now just be 1 instead of having it mixed between orangebox and non orangebox.
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