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Steam hits 9.5 Million Concurrent Users on 10th May 2015

Yeah but how many are actually playing games? Steam starts up whenever you turn a computer on so I don't understand what the hoopla is about. If you take all the physical gaming platorms and got their concurrent numbers it would probably dwarf this. Especially in game numbers. PC gong platforms like Steam, Origin, Uplay, and GOG just can't keep up. 22.3 million PS4s son!!

Why set your computer to start up with Steam then? It doesn't do that by default
 
Yeah but how many are actually playing games? Steam starts up whenever you turn a computer on so I don't understand what the hoopla is about. If you take all the physical gaming platorms and got their concurrent numbers it would probably dwarf this. Especially in game numbers. PC gong platforms like Steam, Origin, Uplay, and GOG just can't keep up. 22.3 million PS4s son!!

Horse armour? Is that you?

;)
 
I really wish other companies were confident/open/foolhardy enough to share this sort of data in the way Valve do.

We know more about Steam from the horse's mouth than we ever find out by hook or by crook from Sony, Microsoft, EA, etc. Hell, the console manufacturers sometimes refuse to even reveal sell in of their platforms (obfuscating it with their other products or divisions, etc.). And that's before you even consider the deeper data you can get with things like SteamSpy.

This is truly a golden time for hobbyist analysis of the PC gaming marketplace, or at least the biggest slice of it.
 
I have my fingers and toes crossed that the Summer Sale kicks off in July rather than June as tax time starts here on July 1st.

You may be in the clear since the Dota 2 stuff isn't until August this time around. It probably will be in July.
 
Yeah but how many are actually playing games? Steam starts up whenever you turn a computer on so I don't understand what the hoopla is about. If you take all the physical gaming platorms and got their concurrent numbers it would probably dwarf this. Especially in game numbers. PC gong platforms like Steam, Origin, Uplay, and GOG just can't keep up. 22.3 million PS4s son!!

The funny thing is League of Legends probably has more concurrent users than PS4 & Xbox One combined right now... And that's just one game.
 
I really wish other companies were confident/open/foolhardy enough to share this sort of data in the way Valve do.

We know more about Steam from the horse's mouth than we ever find out by hook or by crook from Sony, Microsoft, EA, etc. Hell, the console manufacturers sometimes refuse to even reveal sell in of their platforms (obfuscating it with their other products or divisions, etc.). And that's before you even consider the deeper data you can get with things like SteamSpy.

This is truly a golden time for hobbyist analysis of the PC gaming marketplace, or at least the biggest slice of it.

Shareholders is the likely reason, Valve don't so doesn't really matter what data they release.
 
It feels like most games aimed at hardcore gamers, minus some first party and Japanese exclusives, end up on Steam these days, so no wonder the amount of users keeps growing. No better place to be at this point.
 
Yeah but how many are actually playing games? Steam starts up whenever you turn a computer on so I don't understand what the hoopla is about. If you take all the physical gaming platorms and got their concurrent numbers it would probably dwarf this. Especially in game numbers. PC platforms like Steam, Origin, Uplay, and GOG just can't keep up. 22.3 million PS4s son!!



Hah, that's a good one. Always fun to see the sarcastic/funny posts in Steam numbers threads.
 
Yeah but how many are actually playing games? Steam starts up whenever you turn a computer on so I don't understand what the hoopla is about. If you take all the physical gaming platorms and got their concurrent numbers it would probably dwarf this. Especially in game numbers. PC platforms like Steam, Origin, Uplay, and GOG just can't keep up. 22.3 million PS4s son!!
You can turn the auto start-up off.
 
Yeah but how many are actually playing games? Steam starts up whenever you turn a computer on so I don't understand what the hoopla is about. If you take all the physical gaming platorms and got their concurrent numbers it would probably dwarf this. Especially in game numbers. PC platforms like Steam, Origin, Uplay, and GOG just can't keep up. 22.3 million PS4s son!!

I'm just gonna roll with the rest and assume this is a joke post.
 
Dota 2's number will be monstrously high after The International 5, Source 2 update, and custom maps. It's a juggernaut in the making.

They are taking their sweet time with that stuff. Still hoping there is a game release for Source 2 other than that, sometime this year
 
I should buy Counter Strike GO.

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I've played the shit out of 1.6 back then, not sure why I haven't jumped on Global Offensive.
 
Man... CS:GO is a monster. Its so cool seeing CS catching on with a new generation of players

It's really impressive. Not many games or franchises can follow a path like CS has:

1) Small game made by garage developers
2) Rapidly becomes phenomenally popular, brought in house at Valve
3) Reaches a peak of popularity in the early 2000s with sustained success
4) Over the course of the next decade, the game remains very popular, but slowly fades from the limelight, as even the most successful games tend to do
5) In 2014 -- 15 years after its initial release -- sees a massive resurgence
6) Reaches to a new historic peak in popularity in 2015, still growing rapidly

That's a very unusual life curve.
 
It's really impressive. Not many games or franchises can follow a path like CS has:

1) Small game made by garage developers
2) Becomes phenomenally popular, brought in house at Valve
3) Reaches a peak of popularity in the early 2000s
4) Over the course of the next decade, the game remains very popular, but slowly fades from the limelight, as even the most successful games tend to do
5) In 2014, sees a massive resurgence
6) Reaches to a new historic peak in popularity in 2015.

That's a very unusual life curve.

Also doesn't look like slowing down either...
 
Also doesn't look like slowing down either...

Yep, just edited that in. It's still growing.

I think WoW is a great example of how incredibly popular games tend to work. I'm not sure any game is even close to WoW's success in terms of revenue in profit; it has generated billions and billions for Blizzard over the course of its lifespan.

It was a dominantly popular game in the mid 2000s, and remains very popular even today. But, as even the best games tend to do, it has slowly lost its luster, gradually shedding memberships over time. Not dead, by any means, but everything declines and there is no shame in the fact that WoW "only" has 7 million subscribers 10+ years after its launch.

Now imagine if, 4-5 years from now, WoW suddenly shot back and became more popular than it had ever been -- while still costing money, as CS:GO is not free to play. That's what CS:GO is doing right now.
 
Absolutely amazing how quickly Steam is growing. I predict it'll be at 10 mil concurrent when the summer sale hits if it continues at this rate.
 
Yeah but how many are actually playing games? Steam starts up whenever you turn a computer on so I don't understand what the hoopla is about. If you take all the physical gaming platorms and got their concurrent numbers it would probably dwarf this. Especially in game numbers. PC platforms like Steam, Origin, Uplay, and GOG just can't keep up. 22.3 million PS4s son!!

Warriors, come out to play.
 
Yeah but how many are actually playing games? Steam starts up whenever you turn a computer on so I don't understand what the hoopla is about. If you take all the physical gaming platorms and got their concurrent numbers it would probably dwarf this. Especially in game numbers. PC platforms like Steam, Origin, Uplay, and GOG just can't keep up. 22.3 million PS4s son!!


What on Earth did I just read
 
It surprises me considering they've been curving all the spam accounts as well. Wonder when this crazy pace will stop.
 
FF14 launched as a standalone several months before it made it onto Steam, and Steam keys were never given to those who'd bought the game originally.

Yeah and the expansions won't activate for a Steam account if you have the standalone version. So it's a pain to use the Steam version if you already had the standalone cause now you have to buy two of everything forever to use both. I think most people just said screw it and stuck with standalone.
 
And that's after the spam takedown moves Valve has been making. Pretty awesome.

I won't be surprised to see it hit 10 million concurrent by the fall.

PC is going to get gargantuan this generation, guys... like more massive that many would have ever guessed.
 
And that's after the spam takedown moves Valve has bene making. Pretty awesome.

I won't be suprised to see it hit 10 million concurrent by the fall.

PC is going to get gargantuan this generation, guy... like more massive that many would have ever guessed.

Combination of a few things happening at once.

The explosion began at the tail end of last generation where people became frustrated with just how far behind the 360 and PS3 became.
Both the PS4 and XBO aren't exactly making compelling cases for themselves in terms from both a technical perspective, but also games available.
 
TERA charting high, woot.

It's true. I was just in TERA this weekend. Lots of players.


It's a bizarre thing, but I am currently in Blade & Soul Russian Beta and Black Desert Korean Beta, and while they are visual improvements over TERA I am not sure if they are going to deaththrone TERA.
And you know what else is really popular still? Aion! Yes, Aion is doing really really well. The game has a massive international fanbase.
All of this surprises me because neither TERA or Aion gets a lot of coverage, but there are lots, and I do mean lots of people playing these games outside Asian territories.



I think in the case of TERA, it is weeabo-land. And Blade and Soul is going to take that to new levels. It is the most hyper sexualized video game I have ever tried.

Black Desert is not like that at all. It's much more stronger in a european medieval theme, but you can still smell the anime in the same way you could feel it in Kingdom Under Fire.
 
If you compare CS:GO's growth to DOTA2, it actually has a very similar trajectory. Two games with over 1 million users seems inevitable.

GTAV has a little over 2,000,000 copies with with 170,000 concurrent playes. Makes you wonder what the number of unique people are that cycle through CSGO and DOTA2 everyday is

And that's after the spam takedown moves Valve has been making. Pretty awesome.

I won't be surprised to see it hit 10 million concurrent by the fall.

PC is going to get gargantuan this generation, guys... like more massive that many would have ever guessed.

I've seen the store on base evolve over the last 4 years. They went from carrying nothing PC gaming related with only MacBooks and netbooks available to carrying the new ASUS console, Alienware Alphas, Gaming laptops from Toshiba, ASUS and Alienware, Gaming Desktop from different companies, PC Gaming peripherals. That's where I got my Swift ROG for so damn cheap. And this is a bunch of Marines buying this. It's really exciting.

They have a mountain of PS4s and X1s that never move. It looks like they trade them out with different boxed bundles when they come available. They don't even have the PS4 kiosk running. I'm sure they sell them... I just don't see anyone in the console area even browsing while I'm there.
 
GTAV has a little over 2,000,000 copies with with 170,000 concurrent playes. Makes you wonder what the number of unique people are that cycle through CSGO and DOTA2 everyday is

According to Steam Spy, looks like about 6 million and 9 million unique players over two weeks respectively.
 
Huh. Concurrently logged on, so does that mean my box at home counts even though it just idles all day? (This is genuine curiosity on how/what they count!)

I'm guessing this number would also count users logged into the phone app, which stays on in the background by default.
 
Yeah but how many are actually playing games? Steam starts up whenever you turn a computer on so I don't understand what the hoopla is about. If you take all the physical gaming platorms and got their concurrent numbers it would probably dwarf this. Especially in game numbers. PC platforms like Steam, Origin, Uplay, and GOG just can't keep up. 22.3 million PS4s son!!

You drank very deeply from the punchbowl it seems. You should have a seat and think about what you've done wrong here.
 
3 things got me to start playing csgo. #1 it being described time after time online as the most 'hardcore' fps in terms of skill required to become good, #2. watching streamers on twitch which allowed me to learn the callouts/general strategies before I played so I didn't have to go through too many growing pains while getting decent and it's also fun to watch, and #3 constant updates and the belief that the game won't be abandoned anytime soon for something new. (Or if it does it wouldn't be radically changed).

They should continue to embrace those things imo and it'll keep growing. I feel like people try the game out after being dissatisfied or bored by other mainstream fps' which tend to die out after a year. Its notorious reputation online as the shooter for "big boys" or "real gamers" etc. sets it apart I think.
 
I may be years late but I thought CS:GO was a bit disappointing when it launched? As in the old school CS players didn't like it or something? This was years ago I think, but I could have sworn...
 
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