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Steam hits 4 million concurrent users.

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Member since: August 22, 2008

Steam Rating: 10

Playing time: 64.9 hrs past 2 weeks

Damn, thought it'd be more then that.
 
I waited until November to register my steam account, cause I remember seeing the client and 1.6 and really though they were awful compared to WON/1.5...
I'm glad it's at least "a bit" better now :D
raphier said:
I just realized I registered on April 13. Fuck.

Jäsenyys alkoi:
April 13, 2003
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selvä xiit :e
 
Steam ID: 2152 Early adopter =)

Member since: September 12, 2003

Steam Rating: 6.3

Playing time: 20 hrs past 2 weeks


Amazing to see this service go from utter garbage to god status.
 
having concurrent users active on steam isn't enough of a feat, considering many people probably have it with boot on start. It's still a feat though. I bet the tf2 f2p status helped a bit with those numbers.
 
Dota 2 beta released; can't login into Steam. Mark my words.

I remember when they had ratings with titles right after it. Steam Rating 10: Eagles Scream!
 
That's what you get with 8 years, and tons of good development and infrastructure building. All the other DD service desperately want to have these kinds of numbers before the year is up and they haven't put the time in.
 
August 15, 2004 Is what mine says. Though I think I made an even older account for 1.6 when steam really was crappy.
 
Weenerz said:
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.
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Yep, I remember they had some promotion going on with ATI. I got my HL2 voucher with the 9600XT card. Thing is, I couldn't redeem it for a few months due to a crappy net connection.
 
Glass Rebel said:
You've missed the word "concurrent" right?
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Nope.

Steam auto-loads for me whenever I use my Windows partition. I know a lot of people who use it as a chat client even when they're not gaming.

I imagine when a big game comes out on Xbox 360, Live reaches over 4 million users playing at the same time, and that's a paid service with a userbase that, I'm assuming, is smaller than Steam's.
 
Meisadragon said:
Yep, I remember they had some promotion going on with ATI. I got my HL2 voucher with the 9600XT card. Thing is, I couldn't redeem it for a few months due to a crappy net connection.
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I remember having to save the coupon because the game wasnt out for a few months. Oh well, not a big deal.
 
I was a member from day 1. Unfortunately in 2005 I accidentally created a seperate account for HL2 so I gave the original account with CS 1.6 and HL/Blue Shift/TFc etc. away to someone who had never played HL before.

I remember an interview a few years ago where Doug Lombardi said they were up to 30 million unique users per month. He stressed that they only counted for the last few months and not total created accounts. So when they say 30 million or 40 million unique users it is a very real number.
 
Shurs said:
Nope.

Steam auto-loads for me whenever I use my Windows partition. I know a lot of people who use it as a chat client even when they're not gaming.

I imagine when a big game comes out on Xbox 360, Live reaches over 4 million users playing at the same time, and that's a paid service with a userbase that, I'm assuming, is smaller than Steam's.
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Well, I don't know how those LIVE numbers are calculated. I still remember that Valve announced 30 million active accounts around the time they passed 3 or 3.5 million concurrent users so 4 million is pretty impressive IMO.
 
Sadly just underlines what a niche activity gaming is. In a world with 7 billion people, 4 million get online at once on a gaming service is celebrated and a 50 to 100 million console installed base is seen good, that is just incredibly sad.

While top console games cost tens of millions to make and pull a few million audience uf they are lucky, a single episode of cheap-as-chips Baywatch managed to pull an audience of a billion people when the world population was third less than now, it's easy to see why AAA games are not a compelling business proposition and studios struggle.
 
100% ALWAYS on Steam, and I love it. I got it less than 1 years ago and already have around 80 games on it (and have only spent around $100). As opposed to my 200+ Xbox 360 games that I've probably spent 10 times more on.
 
Chittagong said:
Sadly just underlines what a niche activity gaming is. In a world with 7 billion people, 4 million get online at once on a gaming service is celebrated and a 50 to 100 million console installed base is seen good, that is just incredibly sad.

While top console games cost tens of millions to make and pull a few million audience uf they are lucky, a single episode of cheap-as-chips Baywatch managed to pull an audience of a billion people when the world population was third less than now, it's easy to see why AAA games are not a compelling business proposition and studios struggle.
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Chittagong said:
Sadly just underlines what a niche activity gaming is. In a world with 7 billion people, 4 million get online at once on a gaming service is celebrated and a 50 to 100 million console installed base is seen good, that is just incredibly sad.

While top console games cost tens of millions to make and pull a few million audience uf they are lucky, a single episode of cheap-as-chips Baywatch managed to pull an audience of a billion people when the world population was third less than now, it's easy to see why AAA games are not a compelling business proposition and studios struggle.
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Yeah, keep in mind how many people in the world can actually afford gaming as a hobby.
 
Member since: November 26, 2004

I never really played CS so my date starts with HL2

good to see Steam going from strength to strength.
 
CounterStrike is a monster

12 years old and it's still one of the most popular games out there.

I hope TF2 sticks around for that long
 
Member since: Jan 31, 2008
Steam Rating: 10
Playing time: 90.3 hrs past 2 weeks (that can't be right, right?) lol

Poor PS3 :(
 
Meisadragon said:
How many guys here registered in 2004? :p 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.
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January 18th 2004 :3
 
anddo0 said:
Member since: Jan 31, 2008
Steam Rating: 10
Playing time: 90.3 hrs past 2 weeks (that can't be right, right?) lol

Poor PS3 :(
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I have a PS3, 360, and Wii. I haven't touched my Wii or PS3 in months, and the only reason I've touched my 360 is to play a couple of demos of XBLA games and to play Sacred 2 (which I'd much rather have on Steam, but I didn't have Steam when I got this a couple of years ago).

Of course, I don't regret any of my consoles. But I see myself turning into a mostly PC-gamer as soon as I get my gaming computer all together.
 
Member since: March 12, 2004

On my brothers account that we took turns playing counterstrike on with my buddy. My account was made 2 years later.
 
Well done valve.
Count me as one of your extremely pleased users.
For me, steam puts xbox live to shame. and I hope the UI for the nextbox mimics it.
 
Member since: Nov 8 2005
Steam Rating: 6
Playing Time: 19.2 hours hrs past 2 weeks

Completed Bastion this weekend and have been playing a little bit of Deus Ex when I can.
 
Meisadragon said:
How many guys here registered in 2004? :p 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.
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How do I find that information?
 
Marco1 said:
Well done valve.
Count me as one of your extremely pleased users.
For me, steam puts xbox live to shame. and I hope the UI for the nextbox mimics it.
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I dont think Xbox need to.

I actually like the New Xbox UI which is going to come on Xbox.

Anyways it is offtopic so i guess ill leave till here.
 
Member since: November 17, 2004

Steam Rating: 0

Playing time: 0 hrs past 2 weeks




Too busy playing Xenoblade the last two weeks.
 
I really hope as the number of concurrent users rises the more we'll see developers continuing to make the transition to Steamworks, even if it's only for the Steam version of the game. Excited to see that number rise with the release of DOTA2.

Member since: February 11, 2006
Steam Rating: 10
Playing time: 79.6 hrs past 2 weeks
 
Steam Rating: 4.5

Playing time: 14.5 hrs past 2 weeks

King's Bounty: The Legend
9.1 hrs / 71.9 hrs

Fallout
5 hrs / 5 hrs

Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
0.4 hrs / 1.5 hrs

Usually I have around 50 hours every two weeks. Will make sure to make up for that in the next two weeks!
 
When Dota 2 comes out, what will happen to that number?

2M+? More?

It's going to be crazy. Congrats, Valve. Don't turn evil like Google.
 
ciaossu said:
When Dota 2 comes out, what will happen to that number?

2M+? More?

It's going to be crazy. Congrats, Valve. Don't turn evil like Google.
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I keep hearing abouta Dota 2. I have no idea what it is or why it's a big deal. What the heck is Dota?

Same thing happened to me when everyone freaked out over Team Fortress 2, even though I had no idea there was a Team Fortress 1!
 
FyreWulff said:
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.
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yeah i remember wanting to play cs with my cousins and steam friends never worked
 
The Mana Legend said:
I keep hearing abouta Dota 2. I have no idea what it is or why it's a big deal. What the heck is Dota?

Same thing happened to me when everyone freaked out over Team Fortress 2, even though I had no idea there was a Team Fortress 1!
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Dota 1 (Defense of the Ancients) is a user created mod for Warcraft 3. This is extremely popular in Asia, so when Dota 2 (Valve developed) comes out, many people from Asia will join Steam.
 
Glass Rebel said:
Well, I don't know how those LIVE numbers are calculated. I still remember that Valve announced 30 million active accounts around the time they passed 3 or 3.5 million concurrent users so 4 million is pretty impressive IMO.
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I'm not saying it's unimpressive; just that I thought it would have been more, is all.
 
Shurs said:
I'm not saying it's unimpressive; just that I thought it would have been more, is all.
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4 Million concurrent users is actually A LOT! Riot games announced that with their 15 million active LoL accounts they get 500k concurrent users at any one time.
 
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