The same but 1,000,000 playing CoD and 100,000 spread across every other game.
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Steam breaks 7 million concurrent users, up 1m from this time last year
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The same but 1,000,000 playing CoD and 100,000 spread across every other game.
Damn.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Er, no. It definitely saves the password, the prompt only appears if logged in another computer.
My thought exactly, lol.
They count number of steam clients, which by default starts with windows,
angular graphics
Banned
It's from the top 100 games (though I don't know if including the rest would make a big difference).
They have 50-70% of PC gaming market, many games are bound to steam, whether you are aware of its existence or not, so no need to advertise.
Sentenza
Member
Dreams-Visions
Member
Huh. I don't recall it ever working for me like that. If it did...well, it doesn't now.
Glass Rebel
Member
This isn't the total number of active Steam accounts
If we're just counting boxes, the consoles 'lose'. By... a lot.
Jaded Alyx
Member
There aren't 150 million people using their consoles right now....
(also 150 million? How do you arrive at that number anyway? 360 + PS3? Other consoles don't exist?)
You have to tick the "Remember my password" box.
And MS has 100% of the xbox market. They still need to advertise.
That's as far as I was willing to go.
fluffydelusions
Member
Also Steam also doesn't account for all games on PC. League of legends has more concurrent players than on both consoles combined. Then you have blizzard games etc.
Yuck now I feel dirty for even slightly agreeing.
I have a modern PC made with high end (well, at the time anyway) parts so I'm not very worried about slowdown. Besides I run barely anything else, when I'm not using a browser I usually only have 42 processes running.
Plus Steam's my main instant messenger client now so I have to keep it open lol.
Psychological Intellect
Banned
what the fuck
Hexa
Member
1.4 million concurrent players was the peak for MW3 on XBL IIRC and for LoL it's 5 million concurrent players peak I think.
So not that high overall.
Without the PC/Gabe/Valve stuff, that's one of the greatest GIFs of our time.
AcademicSaucer
Member
dota2
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
If you're not joking/sarcastic, a game being on Steam doesn't mean it's using DRM.
Regardless of how big the raw number is that's still some pretty strong y/y growth. Valve has always been content playing the long game and doing their own thing, don't see that stopping now. Dota alone seems to have converted a number of people at my work from playing just console games.
Lasthope106
Member
Love how salty the console warriors are whenever Steam post big gains year-to-year, just trying to downplay how big the service is.
Eaten By A Grue
Member
7 million people playing Euro Truck simulator.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Nov 26th last year: 6 million
Reference: http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/26/steam-clocks-in-6-million-concurrent-users-breaks-its-own-recor/
lol, that gif though
Great stuff, Steam will only continue to grow and that's a great thing.
SporeCrawler
Member
thats actually much much lower than what i thought.
Whipped Spartan
Member
It does come off poorly arguing against it but I think the only reason people try is people are paying $50+/ year and PSN and XBL get over 1.6 million users online gaming all at once.
MW2 alone when it came out had a over 2.2 million users online post Christmas. It doesn't devalue the accomplishment but please understand why it happens. Those were all paying customers. Then after the peak of COD alone the game routinely get 500,000 alone on XBL during peak times still. I.e. launch day after Christmas.
Hey look guys! Another downplayer.
Anyways, 3 years ago people were getting hype for 3.5 million being the max. Having 7.2 million users on concurrently means there's more people with gaming capable PCs now.
I don't give a shit if they're idling or not. People who say PC gaming is dying are dumb as a mound of donkey turds. low end PC sales are dipping, but gaming hardware is on the rise. This number, along with other stats, are proof of that.
So what? It still means PC gamer numbers are increasing.
CrunchyFrog
Member
I wouldn't be so sure. Does concurrent users count people on Steam mobile? Not that they make up anywhere near a majority of that increase, but still.
Jaded Alyx
Member
I don't understand why it bothers people though. Do they see PC gaming as a threat somehow? I don't get it at all.
Because, as usual for every group of fanboys, PC fanboys try to play it off as something much bigger than it is.
DeadByDawn
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They do, at least as of late. That's why they are shitting up PC gaming threads more than ever these days. Anyway, I despise console gamers. For me, they're somewhere between a cockroach and that white stuff that accumulates at the corner of your mouth when you're really thirsty.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
Nope DOTA
Whipped Spartan
Member
This is it. It just comes off as hollow or meaningless to many. No sense in arguing about it it's just PR.
Valves Steam numbers are the equivalent of Sony's PlayStation family or Microsoft saying the biggest day in Xbox history, They give no frame of reference, no standard. They are spin essentially.
I think the concurrent users in a game number is more impressive. What was the record for that? 2-3-4M?
Steam makes PC gaming easier despite not being its own OS, the steps they took are pretty nice.
Now I hope their next step of actually becoming a console happens, although I have no hopes for anyone developing games on Linux.
Steam makes PC gaming easier despite not being its own OS, the steps they took are pretty nice.
Now I hope their next step of actually becoming a console happens, although I have no hopes for anyone developing games on Linux.
Most of them are probably buying games than playing them!
jim-jam bongs
Member
True. However there isn't really a reliable single stat tracker for PC games. If you combine the number of people playing everything; from Battle.net and Wow, to Quakeworld and Quake Live, to Battlefield games on Origin, to every MMO with a decent subscriber base; then add Steam, you would see that the platform is huge. It's certainly more fragmented, but a lot of people who game mainly on PC actually prefer it that way.
blastprocessor
The Amiga Brotherhood
Mine just auto runs, l rarely use it since l got Origin.
If I'm on my phone and have my computer logged in it still only counts as one person online as it's only counting my account once. If you think mobile shouldn't be counted as online I've been buying games all weekend from my phone which is what this is all about to game makers(money). If your computer is on you can remote install as well which is cool for when you finally get home.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
No bringing logic into the argument!
Are you new to GAF? This has happened forever. ;P
But you're right, it's considerably worse now than even the last generational launch.