Steam Reaches 100 Million Users And 3,700 Games

<< LINK REMOVED >> Fucking idiot. Killyourself.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> You know what "active account" means?

<< LINK REMOVED >> they release sales numbers to devs and publishers, but not consumers.

<< LINK REMOVED >> you are correct - source - << LINK REMOVED >> "We define "active" as an account that owns at least one game and have logged in over the last 30 days."

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Using this as an indication is massively flawed due to two reasons.

1. Steam released around the time of the PS2 (if we were to compare PS2/PS3/PS4 sales to the free Steam accounts you would find the Sony consoles ALONE massively overtake their steam free account counterparts)

2. You are comparing free accounts to Actual sales figures, it's essentially like using facebook or twitter to dictate PC gamings popularity over consoles.

Truth is, aside from a few massively unreliable sources that can essentially be traced back to 'insider leaks' and 'survey based reports / predictions' there are no objective statistics in regards to PC gaming and console gaming.

There really is no factual way to find out which is more popular. If, however you dig deeper and base your opinion around for knowledgeable facts and observations on the general markets orientation you will find the odds favor consoles.

Every major gaming event, gaming outlet or game in general is on console (with it being exclusive a lot of the time!). Why would the more relevant / corporate developers ignore/neglect PC gamers if they are easily the biggest market / as big as people make them out to be? Why are consoles always prioritized? Why are PC exclusives so obscure and unknown aside from it's prehistoric MMO's?

I'm a PS4/PC gamer but saying PC gaming is far more popular / relevant than console gaming is gross misinformation on a grand scale.

Fact is nobody knows / will know but you can get a well informed idea.

<< LINK REMOVED >> It is a huge milestone because they only count user who are actively on and using the service to play games. People who just download the program, and do nothing on it aren't in the listing.

@ExoticCharm comparing steam to gog is like comparing apple pie to apples.If i want to play a 2d platformer or classic games then i will be sure to head over to gog but if i want to play modern games then i will use steam.
Although i do play classic games released on steam, i still prefer it over gog.

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GOG>Steam

Almost always if we are talking about the quality of the service. But I have yet to buy a game off gog while at the same time I have 600 games on steam. I want to love gog, but It is only old games. Gog will always get more popular no doubt. But the thing that will keep it from ever getting close to steam is new releases. Besides The witcher gog has nothing of national oomph from the past 2 years. the closest I got to buying a game from Gog was theme hospital which I think is a classic which is was gog is mostly about, classics.

I do plan on buying stuff from gog, and I visit the storefront just about as often as I do steam just to see what is there, but nothing is there that I want. But Gog is a drop in the ocean compared to the wanted content provided on steam. Again I agree that DRM free, support for old games on new versions of windows/linux, and better sales than steam, is something that monumentally makes me respect gog more than steam, they love pc gamers, in fact they define pc gaming love . But gog as a service is for those people stuck in the 90s and early 2000s of pc gaming who feel that it was better then to what is offered today.

I know it all comes down to opinion since there are some new great titles from smaller devs that have been released recently on gog. but it is 1/10 of the big titles that come to steam. And the thing is those 9/10 are never coming to gog because devs still appreciate DRM, and steam is one of the best versions of DRM out there. Sure no DRM is better than DRM, but just because a game fantastically has been supported to run from 1998 with drm removed doesn't mean I need it. If Humble Bundles starts including GOG keys on purchase, or keys or games from my steam library can be transferred and activated on GOG, then I will start using it. let me know when they put age of empires on gog though. then drm free would be worth it.

Lol right...is that why PC gamers don't get all the exclusives anymore? X1 and PS4 owners will have their 2nd remastered version of GTA V before you PC tools even get to see your first. And how about that Destiny you guys never saw? The Last of Us? Lol....so yeah, PC FTW my arse. Woo. Idlot

<< LINK REMOVED >> Much better than the PayStation 4 and Extortionbox One.

@vadagar1 Also, a Skyrim that's 10 times as fun as the one available on consoles. Dicking around with the editor and installing mods are a huge part of what makes these games replayable and enjoyable

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Really Interesting Products-Perfect Console gaming.

Rule In Paradise PC gaming

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Well physical copies were already going away on PC before Steam got involved, and are beneficial to indie devs who can't afford physical releases.

The pricing for larger games on Steam being near the same is because publishers don't want to undercut retailers that are still huge to their business on the console side for multi-platform games.

I'd still trust Valve with huge power than Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo any day.

<< LINK REMOVED >> actually no, one of the many reasons why steam is where it is today is because they have these sales (which has attracted many people) so i doubt that will occur.

<< LINK REMOVED >> Physical has pretty much already disappeared. 92 percent of all games are digital. But there is competition and they know if they are to be competitive they have to keep their prices down. Plus steam sales must be profitable, why else would they have such big ones.

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How will they have an monopoly?

There is plenty of other services.... Just that Steam was the first to do it, and is therefore the best.

Others seem to still be learning from Steam's mistake which are years old and solved already by Valve.

<< LINK REMOVED >> I disagree, they have the lead now but when other companies start to launch their own online store service like EAs Origin they lose some future mayor games and people will get sick to download 20 clients for 20 different games and that's worry me a little more, the prices are high for a digital buy, but only on launch if you wait a little you get some good discounts, that way you only fully support games you really really want at launch