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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DollPosted:

Caszech That number of users is insane.


I totally agree with your statement. It's unbelievable.

CaszechPosted:

That number of users is insane.

BRSPosted:

I love steam, even after it's shaky start. I remember people thought I was crazy for wanting " all that drm". It came in handy when half of my game cd got annihilated by a room mates dog and I had to format and reinstall the OS. Just download your games again, no need to have the CD.

AimiPosted:

Wow, that is a huge milestone for the guys at Steam. Hope to see them hit another million :)
Lets face it Pc will be the future of gaming!

gmlukensPosted:

That really is an insane number, it is sure to grow too

YopPosted:

PC is still better then console, but I prefer Xbox

OfficialLeonPosted:

APT PC is building up more but consoles will always be better than PCs


no it won't consoles have never been better than PCS. the console community is bigger but that doesn't mean its better.

ArrayPosted:

PC is building up more but consoles will always be better than PCs

undisclosedPosted:

daRealRush If I had a Gaming Computer, I would totally get Steam. But, I don't have a good enough computer, I plan on getting one really soon though!


>get steam account now
>buy games during autumn and winter sale
>build gaming PC
>have a bunch of games to play for chap once you build it

-CPPosted:

PC will always beat consoles.