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Steam breaks 7 million concurrent users, up 1m from this time last year
- Thread starter fluffydelusions
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Because this wasn't turned into a fanboy shitfest in the very first post, with stuff like that gif.
Sentenza
Member
Five millions for League of Legends, apparently.
Whipped Spartan
Member
True as well. Really everyone on GAF knows the truth at the end of the day. People play games.
I guess once you leave behind your emotions this is a great thing to celebrate if you appreciate steam as all these numbers can be used for is to measure engagment of their user base. I think we can all agree their users are engaged and this lays credence to that.
Marauder Shields
Member
You took that gif seriously?
It's just a substantial increase that's being noted and celebrated. I don't see anyone trying to make it anything more than that, so please stop talking out of your ass. Unless you think that Vince McMahon gif is some deadly serious console-war artillery.
i've been idling on Steam for the last 5 hours. i idle on there all the time.
but i also have over 500 games bought on Steam over the last few years.
that's roughly 490 more games than i bought on PS3 and Xbox360 combined.
so big deal about idling. as long as people are buying games ...that's the main thing right?
but i also have over 500 games bought on Steam over the last few years.
that's roughly 490 more games than i bought on PS3 and Xbox360 combined.
so big deal about idling. as long as people are buying games ...that's the main thing right?
It hurt your feelings?
Robert J. Sullivan
Member
can't believe you took that gif seriously
even me who couldn't care less about console and pc wars found this gif funny
?jim-jam bongs
Member
Yeah, of course. To me this is mainly interesting for tracking the growth of Steam itself, rather than being some validation of the preeminence of PC gaming, praise Gaben hallowed be his name. Because I already know that the platform is doing well enough to keep getting games I want to play, I don't really care about which platform is winning; whoever it is, I feel like I'm winning and that's what really counts.
Nah, I'm a steam user myself. I just think the fanboy fighting is stupid as ****.
Then, from the other perspective, its just more fuel to the bitchfest, which makes it annoying. Not that I care that much. I was more pointing it out to the person complaining about it.
blitzcloud
Banned
I have steam on by default.
Why are we happy that a company is getting more digital distribution market share dwarfing the competition? Isn't choice the best, or so is the consensus from the console wars where having two rivals fighting gives us better games. In this case it would apply for better sales or better services.
I'm not really happy with what steam/valve did with CS: GO skins, for example. They suddenly get a huge revenue boost yet keep the same shitty tickrate servers for competitive. With the money boost I expected some actual inversion.
Why are we happy that a company is getting more digital distribution market share dwarfing the competition? Isn't choice the best, or so is the consensus from the console wars where having two rivals fighting gives us better games. In this case it would apply for better sales or better services.
I'm not really happy with what steam/valve did with CS: GO skins, for example. They suddenly get a huge revenue boost yet keep the same shitty tickrate servers for competitive. With the money boost I expected some actual inversion.
A vast increase in numbers from the past 3 years isn't big?
fluffydelusions
Member
It is amazing. Not sure who made it. Came from the Steam thread
michaelius
Banned
I wonder how much of that growth is coming from F2P games coming to steam.
Salt.
Jaded Alyx
Member
I've noticed people took the whole 'PC Master Race' stuff seriously too.
Which is bizarre and hilarious to me.
Given the conditions to be Steam user and being online, not really. Its good, yes. But some huge thing like some are trying to make it out to be? Not really by any logic.
Thanks for more proof.
ScepticMatt
Member
The Dota 2 effect.
Hell, almost half the concurrent players are playing just Dota 2.
Nope, 50% of the 'boxed physical retail' type game market maybe, but LoL alone has 4 times the number of concurrent players than all of steam in-game combined.
Hell, almost half the concurrent players are playing just Dota 2.
... Valve's the only one that posts numbers. Man, I know Amazon, GMG, and Origin get my PC bucks too. People are looking at this as more as an increase in PC gaming... not a celebration of Valve taking over the PC gaming world.
Claude Kenni
Member
I'd like to add a detail some might overlook. When my PC is on I'm logged into Steam but not the messenger so I'm not online. This number almost definitely doesn't include people like me, and I play games often. It's actually fairly common to do this.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
It's no different than the silly Reggie/Kaz/Other-Game-Exec worship.
Buying games is the real game on steam. Playing them is just a fortunate side affect.
I see you've yet to meet the people who take it seriously enough to think its inherently true... -_-'
Thanks for more salt, the fact that you people can't let one positive pc related thread go by because of the fake hype of these new consoles without raining down upon us with your negative bullshit just show how insecure you truly are.
Jaded Alyx
Member
Right, and who takes that stuff seriously?
lol, you really think that, don't you?
Since E3 it has not been possible to mention the Xbox One or the Wii because everything is immediately wacka-moled into the ground, same with PC as shown in this thread. "HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT PC?". The amount of juvenile bullshit going on is a bit much.¨
Anyway, I'm disappointed by the amount of shallow logic displayed. It doesn't take much to understand that not all PCs comes with Steam.. It's just one of many distribution channels on the platform.
Anyway, I'm disappointed by the amount of shallow logic displayed. It doesn't take much to understand that not all PCs comes with Steam.. It's just one of many distribution channels on the platform.
Speaking of which, what do you even think I'm trying to say? Or do you just have your panties into such a bunch that anything that isn't praising it is now some attack on it?
ScepticMatt
Member
alexandros
Banned
Holy shit that made me spill my drink :-D Impressively, Steam keeps growing even during a year of next gen console launches from all three companies. The service clearly has a lot of momentum.
Glass Rebel
Member
Nobody knows what you're trying to say but everyone can see what you're saying, intentionally or not.
Mystic_Wanderer
Member
Oh my
Lasthope106
Member
All Hail our lord gaben!
The rate of growth does seem to have dropped though, wasn't it only like 5 or 6 months between 5 and 6 million, while 6 and 7 took a solid year? Also, its amusing that Dota 2 alone accounts for 1/4th of all active players at any one time.
This picture is so good I'm going to make it my facebook cover.
So yes, the people who are acting like I'm attacking it are not paying attention to what I've said.
My first post in this thread...
That, only that. What is WRONG with you people?
Feel free to not avoid the question next time.
Terbinator
Member
That gif.
It madey life complete.
Nice Valve. Moving on up. If Steam Machines ends up successful for Valve, I wonder how these numbers would react.
Lol oh man, you weren't kidding!
Lol oh man, you weren't kidding!
All Hail our lord gaben!
The rate of growth does seem to have dropped though, wasn't it only like 5 or 6 months between 5 and 6 million, while 6 and 7 took a solid year? Also, its amusing that Dota 2 alone accounts for 1/4th of all active players at any one time.
There were ~11 months between 5m (beginning of January 2012) and 6m (end of November), so the rate has only slowed down a tad.
Console guys are just bitter. Up until the consoles launched, they were talking a lot of shit about how consoles were going to eclipse PC quality gaming.
Now that has ended up not being the case, they do not look forward to being regarded as gaming "peasants" for another generation, so they look to collectively overrun any positive PC related threads(e.g. Nvidia thread, NFS: Rivals PC performance thread, etc...).
There are some PC guys who can't help but fuel the fire though. There is plenty of blame on both sides.
So it took you until I reposted my point for you to actually know what I'm talking about when you're attacking me? The next step would be attacking me with something relevant to the point I'm making.
Glass Rebel
Member
It's ok. You thought that you brought up something novel and thought nobody except you took it into account, threw in fanboy accusations in the mix and caught feelings when people called you out. Take that L like a man.