That's at least 13 million grandmas who accidentally downloaded Steam and have it automatically running in the background on startup, though.
That's at least 13 million grandmas who accidentally downloaded Steam and have it automatically running in the background on startup, though.
As a fun fact...Steam has been breaking its concurrent peak for 4 straight weekends. It basically went from 14.1 (the record) = 14.3 = 14.5 = 14.7 = and now 15. All in the last month.
PUBG is definitely responsible for a lot of the growth but it seems that all the big games have slightly increased. so its just a really good month for Steam across the board.
That's at least 13 million grandmas who accidentally downloaded Steam and have it automatically running in the background on startup, though.
don't forget the prankster uncles.
That's at least 13 million grandmas who accidentally downloaded Steam and have it automatically running in the background on startup, though.
So uh, where exactly did this meme come from? Is it from the anti-PC Gaming concern-trolls who started cropping up when the pattern of 3rd Party PS3/4 exclusives getting ported to PC started becoming a thing? (When I recall around that time that SteamSpy threads about ports became banned for awhile due to them always turning into cesspits of trolling and flame-wars.)
So uh, where exactly did this meme come from? Is it from the anti-PC Gaming concern-trolls who started cropping up when the pattern of 3rd Party PS3/4 exclusives getting ported to PC started becoming a thing? (When I recall around that time that SteamSpy threads about ports became banned for awhile due to them always turning into cesspits of trolling and flame-wars.)
So uh, where exactly did this meme come from? Is it from the anti-PC Gaming concern-trolls who started cropping up when the pattern of 3rd Party PS3/4 exclusives getting ported to PC started becoming a thing? (When I recall around that time that SteamSpy threads about ports became banned for awhile due to them always turning into cesspits of trolling and flame-wars.)
Pretty sure that's just an AOL kind of joke about old people
So uh, where exactly did this meme come from? Is it from the anti-PC Gaming concern-trolls who started cropping up when the pattern of 3rd Party PS3/4 exclusives getting ported to PC started becoming a thing? (When I recall around that time that SteamSpy threads about ports became banned for awhile due to them always turning into cesspits of trolling and flame-wars.)
The 'prankster uncle' mem came from a post in a previous "Steam breaks concurrent user record" thread. A poster, trying to downplay the numbers, said that an uncle of his installed Steam on his computer as a prank and he never bothered to uninstall it which in his mind meant that he was counted as an active user even though he never played games on Steam and thus these records were meaningless.
You've been had
While those examples sounds ridiculous it's not crazy to think many people have Steam installed on their PC's and laptops and some just never use it except once or twice but Steam still runs auto startup at boot by defaultThere was a very specific GAF thread downplaying Steam (or Dota2, can't remember) numbers with a bunch of hilarious 'but what if's which pretty much had both legs thigh-deep in Poe's Law. From aunties accidentally installing Steam and leaving it idle to asking how many of them were actually having fun (or else it didn't count) and so on.
Joke's been run into the ground as much as the first few posts of any recent Pachter thread, to be honest.
15M people lining Gabe Newell's pocket with that five dollar paywall. Sad!
Valve to buy PUBG
I Decided to make a steam account to start building my games library, guess I'll soon be one of those concurrent users *shrugs*
MS is a more likely candidate.
The 'prankster uncle' mem came from a post in a previous "Steam breaks concurrent user record" thread. A poster, trying to downplay the numbers, said that an uncle of his installed Steam on his computer as a prank and he never bothered to uninstall it which in his mind meant that he was counted as an active user even though he never played games on Steam and thus these records were meaningless.
Amazing.
Will probably end up being some Chinese company.
I remember that thread. Fun times.
PC gaming finally found its killer app, literally and figuratively.
While those examples sounds ridiculous it's not crazy to think many people have Steam installed on their PC's and laptops and some just never use it except once or twice but Steam still runs auto startup at boot by default
Given the software autostarts and i'm not even using it this 15M doesn't tell me how many people are REALLY using it.
and those people don't contribute to the numbers usually being discussed. they're non-entities, something for people totally ignorant to Steam to point at in desperate frustration
a few? That was over a decade ago at this point..And people said few years ago that of gaming was dead lol
Given the software autostarts and i'm not even using it this 15M doesn't tell me how many people are REALLY using it.
Pretty sure the uncharted franchise alone has sold a lot more than 15m, which says it all really. PS4 is still the king.
While those examples sounds ridiculous it's not crazy to think many people have Steam installed on their PC's and laptops and some just never use it except once or twice but Steam still runs auto startup at boot by default
Given the software autostarts and i'm not even using it this 15M doesn't tell me how many people are REALLY using it.
Pretty sure the uncharted franchise alone has sold a lot more than 15m, which says it all really. PS4 is still the king.
Pretty sure the uncharted franchise alone has sold a lot more than 15m, which says it all really. PS4 is still the king.
Maybe Steam is getting bigger in China?