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Steam breaks 7 million concurrent users, up 1m from this time last year
- Thread starter fluffydelusions
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I'm sorry, what?
Otakumegane
Member
More Japan on PC and I build a rig. It's the only thing holding me back.
Nintendo handheld+PC is my ideal combo. I can't do this yet.
Nintendo handheld+PC is my ideal combo. I can't do this yet.
Dog Problems
Banned
There's always been quality games on PC. Maybe they don't appeal to you, and that's fine, but that doesn't lower their quality in any way.
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
I can't play Folklore on a PC, bro
Mavromatis
Member
I want to see the numbers on Origin and UbiThing.
Imp the Dimp
Member
Comment section under the IGN article gave me cancer
Sentenza
Member
Yeah. Not only we know for a fact that Valve went to Japan to court a lot of developers/publishers some time ago, but we are also starting to see most of them finally jumping on the Steam ship... And yet there are a lot of people on this forum that keep pretending nothing is changed and the PC will always be off-limits for the Japanese gaming industry.
EA has only dealt in total user accounts (inclusive of mobile) rather than Valve's metric of active user accounts, which is rather telling. The last Origin figure we got was last October and to the order of "over 30 million", but mobile makes up almost half of this figure.
jim-jam bongs
Member
fluffydelusions
Member
Already half way to 8m it seems
Jason Frost
Member
Steam breaks his most concurrent users again only 3 weeks after its last record:
HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!
emiranda061288
Banned
everybody knows that IGN is cancerous.
fluffydelusions
Member
Indeed. As someone mentioned in the Steam thread I'm sure the free L4D2 had a lot to do with it. It's currently sitting @ #2 spot in most played.
Syphon Filter
Member
instead of 8 million by the end of next year it looks like it can be 9 which is huge growth.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
If idling for cards counts as playing, then sure.
fluffydelusions
Member
Steam reaches 7.6 million concurrent users
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-reaches-7-6-million-concurrent-users/1100-6416858/
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-reaches-7-6-million-concurrent-users/1100-6416858/
alexandros
Banned
Such growth during a year with two new console releases is very impressive.If Valve play their cards right with SteamOS and the Steam Machines they can really put the hurt on Microsoft and Sony.
SneakyStephan
Banned
edit 2: old thread idk why I didn't check the date before responding to a post on the second page
ot: man how is it even going up this fast, then again there seem to be dozens of games releasing on steam every week now (to the point where I can't keep up at all with following the new releases)
ot: man how is it even going up this fast, then again there seem to be dozens of games releasing on steam every week now (to the point where I can't keep up at all with following the new releases)
SneakyStephan
Banned
ops double
Turns out most people give no shits about DRM that doesn't cause anyone any problems. The 5 people who still do will just have to keep being miserable I guess.
Sentenza
Member
Yeah, let's pretend you actually care about what kind of store sells more on PC, just for the sake of a better dramatic effect.
People would rather take Steam DRM over no DRM if given the choice in my experience.
HalfwayOrb
Member
da comments.
making GAF proud.
ashecitism
Member
fucking lol
Pretty much. Even Amazon had to start offering steam-key options on games that aren't even steamworks to motivate more people to buy them. From what I've heard it's worked extremely well too.
I have bought games from GOG but almost always i just forget that i even have them. I have actually bought games twice because of this. First time from gog and second time from steam sale. The download, install and play process is easy enough but it's not steam easy.
I would like to support it more but there is not much to support. The (new) game selection is very small and publishers won't put their games there.
GamingIsDead
Member
There is no reason to boycott steam as it is just a service to download a game you purchased securely as it's the developer who decides to implement the drm.
Just because a game is on steam doesn't mean is has to use it's copy protection there are plenty of games already on steam that will continue to function even if you removed steam completely from your computer.
The problem is not DRM, the problem is bad DRM, Steam is not bad DRM.
Sentenza
Member
Well, there are good chances that these numbers could not be topped until June sales or next Christmas, anyway.
That's a very good point. It's a shame there isn't a site that tracks the increase or decrease in steam users concurrently on steam and in-game, over time.
TaroYamada
Member
Not exactly what you're looking for but I like Steamcharts. It's history only goes back a bit though so it's not an "all-time" if you will, it's more a "since this site opened".
The value proposition of PC gaming has never been better. Cheap games and graphics cards that can produce great better than 360/PS3 visuals at <$150.
Conciliator
Banned
Perpetual sales, indie games by the dozens and a digital library. I hope I never have to go back.
Super old post to quote oh i havent had this good a laugh in awhile.
Sentenza
Member
Well, mine doesn't, and I use it by default in offline mode unless I want to log online.
See? For each anecdotal evidence you can expect the opposite.
If you don't like it you can just change the option, by the way.
Jason Frost
Member
I wonder what will happen before the end of the Holiday sale.
Boombloxer
Member
Not really, but we can pretend.
IllumiNate
Member
Oh boy, I read a few comments and started noticing my IQ dropping.
Good luck with that.