Steam logs 6 million concurrent users for the first time
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[url]http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/11/26/steam-6-million-users-thanksgiving-weekend/[/url]
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Combating Thanksgiving food comas with the awe-inspiring power of the gaming binge, over 6 million gamers logged into Valve’s digi-hub over the weekend after enduring the motions of spending “time” with “family.” Undoubtedly spurred on by the Autumn Sale and its many wallet puns, the surge also rode the waves of numerous major releases such as PlanetSide 2, Assassin’s Creed 3, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
The ballooned player count peaked around 11:00 a.m. PST Sunday with 6,045,912 users logged on, Kotaku noticed. Notice that’s concurrent logins, not active game sessions—while games define the vanguard of Steam’s excellence, the chart gathers numbers from simply having the program launched and running. That’s where the always-handy Steam Graph service steps in with more numbers for your numbers.
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Plugging in a few top releases into Steam Graph for the Thanksgiving weekend shows a fair spread across PC gaming’s most popular genres. Dota 2′s un-beta boasted a little over 170,000 simultaneous players on late Saturday, while soccer-sim Football Manager 2013′s surprising strength topped at around 60,000. On Sunday night Black Ops 2 spiked at 51,000 soldiers, and PlanetSide 2′s fight for Auraxia swelled to 30,000 Steam conscripts last night. Lastly, as many as 15,000 stone-faced killers were concurrently shoving sharp metal objects into various people in Assassin’s Creed 3.
Conclusion? I’m really tired of turkey sandwiches, but Steam’s powerful presence on the PC only increases with each passing year.[/quote]
Tha's cool, I guess.
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To put that in perspective, that's more than the entire population of Norway or Denmark or Ireland.
In fact it's more than twice that of the entire population of Jamaica.
[QUOTE=mac338;38604219]To put that in perspective, that's one million more than the entire population of Norway.[/QUOTE]I was gonna post that you shit.
Bloody hell last year it was at like 4 million.
[QUOTE=Lizzrd;38604231]I was gonna post that you shit.[/QUOTE]
To put that into perspective, that's one more solid-state shit than the entire population of India has produced the last 60 years.
[QUOTE=usaokay;38604189]If the laws of nature allowed it, I would bear Gabe Newell's children.[/QUOTE]
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I am still so amazed by the player numbers of DotA 2
[QUOTE=usaokay;38604269]If you think about it, there are 6,973,738,433 people on Earth at this moment. That would mean there are 6,967,738,433 people not logged on Steam right now.[/QUOTE]
Fucking losers
[QUOTE=usaokay;38604269]If you think about it, there are 6,973,738,433 people on Earth at this moment. That would mean there are 6,967,738,433 people not logged on Steam right now.[/QUOTE]
Interesting way to look at it. Be aware though that that figure for population couldn't possibly justify that many significant figures.
Why is TF2 not in there? According to [url]http://store.steampowered.com/stats/[/url] it's the 4th most played game.
[QUOTE=mac338;38604219]To put that in perspective, that's more than the entire population of Norway or Denmark or Ireland.
In fact it's more than twice that of the entire population of Jamaica.[/QUOTE]
To put it in more relevent perspective the PS3 has sold 70.2 million units and the 360 has sold 70 million units worldwide.
The PC still has a lot of work before it becomes dominant, allowing possibly double the steam figure as the total users. 12 million is still pretty damn good.
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;38604357]To put it in more relevent perspective the PS3 has sold 70.2 million units and the 360 has sold 70 million units worldwide.
The PC still has a lot of work before it becomes dominant, allowing possibly double the steam figure as the total users. 12 million is still pretty damn good.[/QUOTE]
To put this post in a perspective, this was just players online at the same time, STEAM has 50 million registered , active accounts and that's as stated by Valve: Accounts with at least one game and active within the last month.
And that's by far far far far not the only platform or any representation of PC users.
Also probably included in the Xbox numbers are RROD consoles, consoles broken and replaced and so on but don't pin me on that.
I remember when it hardly ever hit 2 million...
And that was only like a year ago.
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This image is the new "Glorious PC master race" macro.
On steam sale my wallet feels empty even more.
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If you know what I mean.
I remember when it hit 5 million with the release of Skyrim. Steam is growing very rapidly.
As applaudable as an achievement this is, I still think this is low for the potential Steam has. More and more are coming to the PC gaming market and the number is rising quickly. I'm almost sure we'll be hitting the next million landmark soon enough.
Make DotA 2 f2p allready, only thing they do is restrict people from getting it everyone is flodded with keys.
How many are actually in game? I imagine that a lot of people just kinda have it running in the background.
Anyone got any numbers for Xbox or PSN?
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Hellooooo new wallpaper.
[QUOTE=Clavus;38605135]Hellooooo new wallpaper.[/QUOTE]
Most of your icons will be on the left side...
You cannot ignore the master race.
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Anyone got any numbers for Xbox?[/QUOTE]
360
Onwards to 7 million! Full Steam ahead!
This free to play model and Steam sales will certainly raise user activity. Was talking to a mate at university who just started using Steam and said he bought Chivalry in the sale.. he's usually a console gamer.
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Why does it bounce around like that? I'm guessing it's because the peak times are late night, dips are early morning and mid-day when people have to actually be productive?
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