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[Chinner]

Most notably, how much you play of games you own on Steam, not launch through Steam.

yeah true, i've got my GOG version of witcher 2 running through steam but it doesn't count how much i played it.

i'd put the increase in numbers down to HR and MW3/call of doody sale.

 

[classicdms]

Oh man, that UI was uglier than sin...

That UI was fine if you changed the color to obsidian. I liked it.

 

[scitek]

How many guys here registered in 2004? Steam has come a long way.


My stats:

Member since: November 16, 2004

Steam Rating: 8.3

Playing time: 26.4 hrs past 2 weeks

I'm sure the playing time will go up with Dead Island.

Member since: October 29, 2003

Steam Rating: 10

 

[The Technomancer]

What did the original UI look like? Its tricky tracking it down on Google

 

[coopolon]

How do you find your Steam ID #?

Member since:
December 12, 2003
Steam Rating:
10
Playing time:
65.1 hrs past 2 weeks - I love Summer.

What did the original UI look like? Its tricky tracking it down on Google

I remember it looking like the small games list does now, but with some of the ugliest greens I've ever seen in my life.

 

[Lion Heart]

Member since: November 17, 2004

Steam Rating: 0.1

Playing time: 0.4 hrs past 2 weeks

Shiiiett. That .4 was just now playing the bastion demo. It chugs at times.

 

[Metalmurphy]

What did the original UI look like? Its tricky tracking it down on Google

IIRC it was more bland, just plain green with no depth, there was no store/community/news/etc

Just server browser, game list, and friends list.

 

[wormstrangler]

I haven't logged in to steam in 139 days! I've been away from PC gaming(well, all gaming basically) for over a year. I haven't even played the games I bought during last xmas sale because I don't have anything to play them on.

Kind of looking forward to getting back into gaming, whenever that happens.

 

[Nirolak]

What did the original UI look like? Its tricky tracking it down on Google

IIRC it was more bland, just plain green with no depth, there was no store/community/news/etc

Just server browser, game list, and friends list.

And the friends list almost never worked. :lol

 

[wormstrangler]

How do you find your Steam ID #?

Member since:
December 12, 2003
Steam Rating:
10
Playing time:
65.1 hrs past 2 weeks



I remember it looking like the small games list does now, but with some of the ugliest greens I've ever seen in my life.

I used to do it in CS, you can type some command in the console to find it. Not sure what that is anymore. Something like player_info

 

[Semblance]

Member since: November 16, 2004
Steam Rating: 10
Playing time: 57.8 hrs past 2 week

Since HL2's launch, holla.

My Red Orchestra 2 beta play time seems to have vanished though, odd.

 

[coopolon]

And the friends list almost never worked. :lol

It was truly atrocious. Sometimes I wonder if my friends I spent more time trying to find each other in games of CS and DOD than we did playing them.

"I'm online, just join my game."
"It says you're not online!"

I had friends I played with every day who STeam thought hadn't logged in for months.

 

[Rapstah]

Membre depuis : October 30, 2006

Note Steam : 7.8

Temps de jeu : 24.8 h les 2 dernières semaines

I know for a fact that I was one of the absolutely first to use Steam Community though so technically I'm a Steam veteran... for as long as it's been great!

 

[Mrbob]

Orin has you all beat off of one game. Looking at my friend activity section I notice one person has pushed one game into the top 5 overall played for the last two weeks!



Steam Rating: 10

Playing time: 110 hrs past 2 weeks


Guild Wars
110 hrs / 145.3 hrs

Orin playing Guild Wars like a boss!

 

[Metalmurphy]

And the friends list almost never worked. :lol

It's actually mind boggling how long it took them to fix it. Years passed and it still didn't work right.

 

[arab]

Member since: September 12, 2003

Steam Rating: 10

Playing time: 31.9 hrs past 2 weeks

i'm a steam legend

 

[jediyoshi]

Member since: September 16, 2003
Steam Rating: 10
Playing time: 56.5 hrs past 2 weeks

i guess that would've made me 12 when i signed up. warms my heart when the source sdk loads up and it uses the old steam menus

 

[KKRT00]

Member since: October 21, 2005

Steam Rating: 0

Playing time: 0 hrs past 2 weeks

And i still dont like to launch it

 

[SturokBGD]

Member since: September 6, 2004
Steam Rating: 10
Playing time: 39.9 hrs past 2 weeks

 

[CrunchinJelly]

Member since: February 21, 2004

Steam Rating: 0.1

Playing time: 0.2 hrs past 2 weeks

Come at me.

 

[Nelo Ice]

guess i'll post my steam veteran status as well

Member since: October 4, 2003

Steam Rating: 10

Playing time: 72.8 hrs past 2 weeks

 

[CoLaN]

Member since: September 12, 2003
Steam Rating: 0.7
Playing time: 2.3 hrs past 2 weeks

They should reward day one members (September 12, 2003) somehow.

Give us something special, Gabe

 

[Metalmurphy]

Member since: September 12, 2003
Steam Rating: 0.7
Playing time: 2.3 hrs past 2 weeks

They should reward day one members (September 12, 2003) like me.

Give us something special, Gabe

 

[strem]

Same.

It's actually my main IM program!

Haha i have found this to be the case with me as well. Even my 65 year old mom has steam installed. She now knows where to find me. That lady has like 250 hours on Chains 2

 

[TedNindo]

A lot of people I know don't buy games on steam because most people overhere don't have credit cards.
People don't really like using credit cards overhere.
I know that in the US everyone and their dog has one or more but that isn't the case overhere. And it's part why retail is more popular in parts of Europe. If valve would sell pre paid cards in stores then steam would be an even bigger succes imo.

 

[CadetMahoney]

what did Sony say over 75 million users or something. /runs

 

[GhostRidah]

Haha i have found this to be the case with me as well. Even my 65 year old mom has steam installed. She now knows where to find me. That lady has like 250 hours on Chains 2

wow she is awesome

 

[Nirolak]

what did Sony say over 75 million users or something. /runs

Total accounts, this is concurrent users.

Steam has 30+ million active accounts, but they don't actually release the total account figure, since non-active accounts aren't that useful to them.

 

[CrunchinJelly]

what did Sony say over 75 million users or something. /runs

So not only did you not read the original post, you didn't even read all the thread title?

That's quite a feat.

 

[Snuggles]

what did Sony say over 75 million users or something. /runs

If I'm thinking of the same statement as you, Sony said they have that many registered users on PSN, which is an entirely different deal.

edit - beaten lol

 

[Spookie]

Member since: October 23, 2003

Now I feel old.

 

[Rogerkiller]

Member since: September 15, 2003

Steam Rating: 7

Playing time: 22.3 hrs past 2 weeks

 

[Stahsky]

Member since: August 22, 2004

Steam Rating: 8

Playing time: 25.5 hrs past 2 weeks

 

[Archie]

Total accounts, this is concurrent users.

Steam has 30+ million active accounts, but they don't actually release the total account figure, since non-active accounts aren't that useful to them.

I wonder how much that number will be inflated with TF2 smurfs. I personally have 7 accounts that could be considered "active" because I bought keys and upgraded them for idling purposes.

 

[TedNindo]

Member since: October 23, 2003

Now I feel old.

Member since: October 13, 2003

I feel even older.

 

[elohel]

this mean online at once?

 

[MichaelEM3]

Member since: November 21, 2008

Steam Rating: 10

Playing time: 53.3 hrs past 2 weeks (Deus Ex, yo).

 

[Sophia]

Member since: January 17, 2004

Steam Rating: 0.2

this mean online at once?

That is usually what concurrent means, yes. =P

 

[X26]

where in the client can you check your join date?

 

[Snuggles]

where in the client can you check your join date?

It's in your profile under the community tab.

 

[Auto_aim1]

this mean online at once?

Yup it does. Very impressive achievement. I think XBL had 2 mil something when MW2 came out in 2009.

 

[Sportbilly]

I wonder how much that number will be inflated with TF2 smurfs. I personally have 7 accounts that could be considered "active" because I bought keys and upgraded them for idling purposes.

I seem to remember an account was considered active if it had been accessed within the last 30 days.

 

[DodgyGeezerFella]

Is that the amount of people playing games, or just the client running ?

 

[Coxy]

Is that the amount of people playing games, or just the client running ?

just the client running, only a fraction are playing games, it lists the top 100 games by number of people playing on the stats page too

 

[raphier]

I just realized I registered on April 13. Fuck.

Jäsenyys alkoi:
April 13, 2003

 

[Lumine]

Member since: September 15, 2003

Steam Rating: 1.5

Playing time: 4.7 hrs past 2 weeks

Do I win something?

 

[Ark]

Member since: April 9, 2010

Steam Rating: 0.3

Playing time: 0.8 hrs past 2 weeks

Apparently Steam doesn't count games not bought on Steam? I've been playing LoL almost all day everyday for the last week or two via Steam, so yeah.

Congrats to Steam/Valve. I'd like to know how many BF3 sales are lost because it isn't on Steam, if any.

 

[FyreWulff]

Member since: September 12, 2003

Steam Rating: 0.3

Playing time: 0.9 hrs past 2 weeks

I actually had to stop playing HL engine games for a while because people kept checking Steam IDs in Counterstrike/TF2 and constantly trying to offer me their account so they could get my 4-digit SteamID.

I think that's mostly died off now (hopefully)


I also remember when Steam Friends was an absolute joke. Couldn't even log in most of the time.

 

[Nirolak]

Member since: April 9, 2010

Steam Rating: 0.3

Playing time: 0.8 hrs past 2 weeks

Apparently Steam doesn't count games not bought on Steam? I've been playing LoL almost all day everyday for the last week or two via Steam, so yeah.

Congrats to Steam/Valve. I'd like to know how many BF3 sales are lost because it isn't on Steam, if any.

Yeah.

 

[Weenerz]

I wonder why my registration date is so much later (Feb 2004) when I bought and registered HL2 much earlier than when Steam came out (it came with my 9800 Pro video card). Oh well, it doesn't really matter.