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- (6) Steam Greenlight is a forum where Steam subscribers can submit an unreleased game for the Steam community to rate according to whether they would like to see the game on Steam.
- (7) Steam Play is a feature that allows subscribers to purchase subscriptions to games.
- (8) Steam Cloud is a feature which stores the game data of a subscriber when a game is concluded so that when the subscriber goes online again, from any computer, he or she can access this information including for sharing with friends online. Steam Cloud is made available by third party service providers such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services.
- (9) Steam Support has a website published to the world at large for inquiries by way of a ticket received in servers located in Washington State.
The operation of the Steam servers
29 Steam is supported by a global network of servers and associated information technology. Nearly a thousand servers are located in Washington State. The servers can broadly be classified in the following groups.
- (1) Steam website servers in Washington State: used to host and support the Steam website and Steam store.
- (2) Steam Client Software and subscription servers in Washington State: the communications which permit a subscriber located in Australia to download the Steam Client software (including any updates) onto his or her local computer, create a Steam account, select a game subscription, and pay the purchase price. These servers also include the authentication of subscribers and, in this role, were sometimes referred to during the trial as "authentication servers".
- (3) Steam content servers: host the content of Valve's video games and all third party video games and other content available on Steam. Steam has content servers in Washington State as well as other locations around the world including Australia. The three of Valve's content servers that are in Australia are located in commercial rack spaces leased from Equinix Australia Pty Ltd (Equinix). These content servers provide content to Australian customers as well as other customers, particularly in the Asian region.
