Steam reaches new peak of over 7 million concurrent users

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In late October, Valve announced that its Steam game download service had reached a new high of over 65 million accounts worldwide, 10 years after the first beta client was released. Today, the number of concurrent Steam users reached a new record as well as it surpassed the 7 million mark for the first time.

The new record was reached just a few hours ago, according to Valve's own stats page, and peaked at 7,190,518 users. Part of the reason for the new surge is the ongoing Steam Autumn Sale, which launched earlier this week with big price cuts on many of the over 3,000 games in Valve's library of titles. If Valve's number of over 65 million total Steam users are correct, that means that well over 10 percent of them were logged in at once today. Steam saw the 6 million concurrent user mark broken during last year's autumn sale.

The new surge in user numbers comes as Valve is preparing to enter a new phase of its Steam service, with plans to launch its own SteamOS that can run games natively as well as stream Windows-based games to televisions. It will also work with third parties to launch Steam Machines based on the OS, along with a new Steam Controller with touchpads instead of analog sticks.

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highmjw13Posted:

fex
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Lavish
fex Amazing how a lot of them are free accounts so for them to afford that amount of server space!


They make hundreds of millions from all the games they sell.
Unlike console, steam has a sale on games at least once a month.


Considering Gabe Newell was only a millionaire when he started Valve and is now worth over a billion, I would say they make quite a bit of money.

TywinPosted:

OfficialLeon
Lavish
-Pig Steam is such a good platform for pc gamers. I hope that the steamOS is just as good


Where did you hear about a SteamOS?
Do you mean the steam box?


SteamOS is going to be a linux based OS strictly for steam. NO he doesn't mean steam box.


Interesting.
I won't be one of the people using it.

I don't like Linux much.

OfficialLeonPosted:

Lavish
-Pig Steam is such a good platform for pc gamers. I hope that the steamOS is just as good


Where did you hear about a SteamOS?
Do you mean the steam box?


SteamOS is going to be a linux based OS strictly for steam. NO he doesn't mean steam box.

TendPosted:

iLewis Wow, 7 million.. The population of London on Steam. Now onto 8 Million!!


That's exactly what I was thinking lol. So many users.

MawderzPosted:

iLewis Wow, 7 million.. The population of London on Steam. Now onto 8 Million!!


It won't take long for Steam to reach 8 million users

TywinPosted:

-Pig Steam is such a good platform for pc gamers. I hope that the steamOS is just as good


Where did you hear about a SteamOS?
Do you mean the steam box?

TywinPosted:

Katsumi
Garrett_Angell im kinda interested to see how the steam box will sell


I'm actually kind of curious on this as well.


In all honesty, it will compete with the Xbone and PS4.
There are so many PC exclusives that are better than any game ever released on console it would be hard not to buy a steam box.

KatsumiPosted:

Garrett_Angell im kinda interested to see how the steam box will sell


I'm actually kind of curious on this as well.

TywinPosted:

KV-2
ATTRELLA
Disc_Jr I only just signed up about 4 days ago x)


I haven't really used it either, I have just signed up a month or two ago and haven't used it since...


lol buy some games and play


A lot of people cannot play steam games because of their computer isn't good enough.

TywinPosted:

I wonder if a new record will be set when the get to releasing the steam box.
I'm also interested to see if the steam box will be compatible with actual PC steam users.


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