15 January
They still refer to last year as earlier this year.
That's a really good increase though, roughly 10 mill more active users in just 3 months time.
And it's the "active" users we are talking about. Only people who officially purchased a Steam game and used the account for once in a month.
What about the millions of alts people have, trade bots and tf2 hat farmers
Not sure if that applies to the active user count. I'm sure the number of accounts is much higher if you include all the inactive alts. Yeah you include trade bots and hat farmers but I'm *hoping* that it's negligible.
I'm hoping it's more like that anyway.
I'm honestly going to call bullshit on this, I can understand an increase because of the reasons given but there are plenty of 'active' fake accounts and alts.
I also want another party to do it, instead of Valve saying it.
[QUOTE=Swilly;43549798]I'm honestly going to call bullshit on this, I can understand an increase because of the reasons given but there are plenty of 'active' fake accounts and alts.
I also want another party to do it, instead of Valve saying it.[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure I'm not 3 different people, and people who made new accounts to evade VAC bans or trade TF2 items aren't multiple people either.
[QUOTE=Nemisis116;43548397]What about the millions of alts people have, trade bots and tf2 hat farmers[/QUOTE]
Yea, they should explain what they mean with "active" users and what requirements a user/account has to meet to be considered as "active". If they're just talking about existing accounts, I bet at least 20 million of those 75 million are unused alts.
I think the general definition of "active" is that you've been using the service during the past month or so.
It would still probably cover a lot of bots and alts though
[QUOTE=Jodern;43555940]I think the general definition of "active" is that you've been using the service during the past month or so.
It would still probably cover a lot of bots and alts though[/QUOTE]Yeah sadly it's almost impossible to tell the bots and alts from "actual" users
[QUOTE=CLungcancer;43555955]Yeah sadly it's almost impossible to tell the bots and alts from "actual" users[/QUOTE]
Still though, there can't be that many bots and I don't think most people have active alts
[QUOTE=Prollgurke;43555657]Yea, they should explain what they mean with "active" users and what requirements a user/account has to meet to be considered as "active". If they're just talking about existing accounts, I bet at least 20 million of those 75 million are unused alts.[/QUOTE]
Like I said, the accounts that Valve are talking about when they bring out such statistics are used for at least once in a month and have one officially purchased game.
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