Valve only communicates about their active userbase (somewhere around 50+ Million), they've never bragged with total number of accounts.
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Steam breaks 6 million concurrent users.
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Valve only communicates about their active userbase (somewhere around 50+ Million), they've never bragged with total number of accounts.
ChosenPredator
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i have maybe 2 steam accounts I forgot about but i do know people with multiple accounts as well but if that is straight up a unique 6 mill that would be pretty crazy
PSN numbers are also mixed with multiple accounts and multiple consoles. Also the case for Origin.
6M is not the number of unique gamers, it is the number of people connected at the same time (mostly all the time).
Sentenza
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Sure people look everywhere for deals. Unfortunately we dont have any hard numbers to compare, but what we do have are the threads on GAF and elsewhere when the big Steam sales roll around. Big Steam sales have become an event that has grown bigger every year.
Last years Christmas sale thread was so hyped even before the sale began that you saw Amazon Tony try too attach himself to the thread like a parasitic leech hoping to draw at least some attention to his sad little sale thread. Make no mistake, his job is like any other. He gets graded based on metrics such as how many posts and views his thread on NeoGAF got, and how many sales and views came from links clicked within the thread. Any parasite has a natural instinct on where to go to find the best host, and that is why Amazon Tony tried to embed himself in the Steam sale thread.
The DFL (Deutsche Fußball Liga) has granted EA exclusive rights. I guess SEGA (Sports Interactive) thinks that without the Bundesliga it makes no sense to sell it here.
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Looks like an interesting article; shame there's no full English translation (outside of Google translate), though.
crimsonheadGCN
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I would imagine that the monthly average users is going to be over 60 million soon and Valve will likely announce it in January.
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You are AWESOME.
Sentenza
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Just a quick update, I just noticed this:
Not sure if that's the absolute record, as there was no quick link to stats during those sales and I didn't bother searching less direct ways to access this page, but given how recently they broke the 6,000,000 barrier, that's an impressive number of concurrent users.
Not sure if that's the absolute record, as there was no quick link to stats during those sales and I didn't bother searching less direct ways to access this page, but given how recently they broke the 6,000,000 barrier, that's an impressive number of concurrent users.
CountAntonius
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Yep.
Also
26,771 31,360 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Its numbers are fine and steadily climbing. For a non free to play game it's doing very well and will probably end up eventually replacing source when more people move on.
Not when that game has been on sale at 50% for the past 2 months. You had the BPM sale, and then 2 weeks of Winter sale.
CountAntonius
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and they will keep putting it on sale cause that's what they do with their games. Source was always on sale and same with 1.6. It's one of the most played games and most people agree its at least better than source. The competitive community is also backing it, so I don't see it going anywhere.
Baconsammy
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Not sure where to ask this question, so I'll ask it here:
I don't own a PC. I have a Mac without Steam loaded on it (didnt have much of a library that interested me on Mac). My nephew got a new PC for Xmas and I was wondering if there's a way I can gift him titles in Steam from a web interface, or am I going to have to install Steam? And if so, can Steam users on Mac gift PC versions?
I don't own a PC. I have a Mac without Steam loaded on it (didnt have much of a library that interested me on Mac). My nephew got a new PC for Xmas and I was wondering if there's a way I can gift him titles in Steam from a web interface, or am I going to have to install Steam? And if so, can Steam users on Mac gift PC versions?
http://store.steampowered.com/ Should be able to login in the top right and do purchasing/gifting just like you do from the client. Not sure if it automatically changes the store to be only Mac games if you're browsing on a Mac though.
You can send the gift via email at checkout.
MrNyarlathotep
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Yes, select gift from checkout
crimsonheadGCN
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Just a quick update, I just noticed this:
Not sure if that's the absolute record, as there was no quick link to stats during those sales and I didn't bother searching less direct ways to access this page, but given how recently they broke the 6,000,000 barrier, that's an impressive number of concurrent users.
It's the record I believe. There is a thread on the Steam forums that keeps track of the peaks: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1431974&page=43
The last year is quite possibly the best year for Steam's growth. In a year the MAU has jumped by at least 20 million accounts (when it's normally 10 million) and concurrent users have jumped by 3 million (when it's normally 1 million).
BrokenEchelon
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No. It's in beta the same way Gmail was in beta for like five years.
eot
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crimsonheadGCN
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What BrokenEchelon said and it'll probably be an invite only beta for a few more months as Valve ups the server capacity, add the remaining heroes, add tutorials, and work with Perfect World Entertainment on getting the Chinese (and Korean?) versions released.
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why? I've never played it, but what is the hook exactly?
crimsonheadGCN
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That was the Dragon Ball Z mod for the original Half-Life.
Rickenslacker
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A DBZ mod for
I think your memory could use a rejig.
Edit: So it did (well, it's ~90k short, but I digress)! What a stark difference
eot
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There was an update to how Steam collects those stats which excluded servers running older server protocols and non-Steam versions (which there were a lot of). For some reason the Steam forum archives don't go that back so I can't find a link for it, but most of those servers used amx so you could still see them on sites like amxmodx.
edit: found one link for it http://steamreview.org/posts/playerstats/
Welcome to the PC Master Race, we have now 6 million members!
Didn't know I was a JRPG character.
I believe you have the spectator client. If you want, you can relieve me of one of my actual copies of Dota2 sitting in my inventory
go away guys I asked him first
Oh wow, that's really nice of you. I'd take you up on that... if I wasn't a Mac user (it's not available on Mac, right?).
It helps that it's both the best version and the easiest to run.
As someone who played CS for countless years, I had all but stopped over the last few. Despite GO not being perfect by any measure, it has rejuvenated my interest in the game completely because of the matchmaking system (which has even been broken half the time).
Hopping on with a couple of friends and jumping right into a 5v5 match is amazing. And its so much better to be playing CS than any other shooter on the market.
The Technomancer
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It's not on Mac yet unfortunatly, although like all Source games I assume it will be eventually
UnluckyKate
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See yourself as a godlike figure with perfect body sculpture and glowing hair
It's easier to run and more popular in Europe. The NA 1.6 scene is almost dead. GO won't overthrow it for a while, but GO is getting more players than CSS in the North American evenings.