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Steam passes 65 million accounts

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salromano

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STEAM PASSES 65 MILLION

Leading Entertainment Platform Expands Reach and Services

October 30, 2013 - Valve today announced 30% growth in active accounts during the trailing 12 months on Steam, a leading platform for PC, Mac, and Linux software.

Now offering over 3,000 games and software titles to over 65 million accounts, 2013 also marked Steam's 10 year anniversary of providing services to gamers. Expanding upon that history, Steam gamers saw the introduction of several new service features during the year, including Family Sharing, Steam Trading Cards, Early Access, and support for Linux titles.

Looking ahead to 2014, Valve looks to expand Steam's services and offerings to gamers and developers by holding the Steam Developer Days in Seattle, WA this January and rolling out the recently announced Steam Machines with a variety of hardware partners later in the year.

"The main goal of Steam has always been to increase the quality of the user's experience by reducing the distance between content creators and their audience," said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. "As the platform grows, our job is to adapt to the changing needs of both the development and user communities. In the coming year, we plan to make perhaps our most significant collaborations with both communities through the Steam Dev Days and the Steam Machines beta."
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Although not stated, Valve has previously dealt in active account numbers rather than total account numbers.

Edit: In the past, active accounts were defined as those with at least one purchase and having been used at least once in the past month, but with F2P games now on Steam, I'd wager the former requirement has been dropped.

Edit edit: Err, I'm blind:
Valve today announced 30% growth in active accounts during the trailing 12 months on Steam
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To reiterate: These 65 million+ accounts have been used at least once in the past month and may also have at least one purchase tied to them.
 
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Dylan

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Professor Lich

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I'm actually curious to see if that number rises or falls with Steam OS.

I guess what I mean is, will 80%+ of all Steam users jump on that boat.
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
SuperSonic1305 said:
Really? Considering everyone with a PC or laptop in the world can make an account.
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Again, Valve's figures refer to active accounts: those that have been used at least once in the past month and possibly also have at least one purchase tied to them (as I said above, this requirement may have been dropped coincident with the introduction of F2P games).
 
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hoserx

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Proud steam user since the days approaching HL2. It's evolved quite nicely over that time period........from something that initially drove me crazy, to something that has caused my game collection to blossom immensely.
 
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