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Steam Passes 9 Million Concurrent Users in Sudden Traffic Spike

Steam is certainly a popular service for PC and regularly features millions of concurrent users. However, in a sudden spike of traffic, the service passed 9 million concurrent users.

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decrypt3464d ago (Edited 3464d ago )

Steam has over 100 Million Registered users now. The strength of steam lies in the PC platform not having generations.

Unlike consoles which face a user base reset at the start of a gen, Steam has only carried on to grow this can be attributed to the PCs ability to have BC.

I suppose this is one of the reasons more and more developers which previously never brought games to the PC are now bringing their games to Steam. A 100 million user base is too much to ignore, even in the face of paychecks by console makers.

mixelon3464d ago

Yeah, it's really great seeing niche exclusive stuff like Valkyrie Chronicles reaching a wider PC audience too. :) PC gaming seems super healthy right now.

mixelon3464d ago

That was supposed to say Valkyria, stupid auto correct.

ATi_Elite3464d ago (Edited 3464d ago )

Ok if Steam has 9 million concurrent users but that is just Steam you still have over 95% of MMOS not using Steam plus Origin plus Blizzards own network plus private and cracked servers which means 9 MILLION steam concurrent users is a drop in the bucket compared to the total global number of concurrent online PC Gamers.

Total PC online gaming community was estimated at 250 million going by online PCS playing games with off board gpu. (total community not concurrent)

Oh and the most played game in the world League of Legends has about 8 million concurrent users as of July 2014.

Pc Gaming is just a global monster with something for everyone and I'm happy and proud to be apart of it during its slow dial up start (mostly turn base games) to its supposed death (yeah I was playing the heck outta BF2 and Stalker online so I was dead to the world) and now to its unstoppable growth and global domination (too many great games not enough time in the day) .

Happy Gaming to all the PC Gamers and a warm welcome to all those with new rigs and newbie Pc accounts.

Enjoy all the various game genres, mods, and go to a lan party or two and most importantly be apart of a platform that has a STRONG voice and opinion in the gaming industry.

Happy Gaming

2pacalypsenow3464d ago

But devs still prefer/cater to the consoles so all those 250 million users doesnt do much

starchild3463d ago

They don't cater to consoles. It's just that games are so expensive to make nowadays that they need all of the platforms. The PC gets more games than any other platform anyway.

DevilOgreFish3464d ago

those are some impressive numbers, and that's just accounting for games and users that support steam.

The PC has definitely come a long way. with the help of valve and the pc community, it's become an excellent place to archive and play games.

Magicite3463d ago

Im a lifelong PC gamer, yet never had Steam account.

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Rick_Ross_Boss3464d ago

That ladies and gentlemen is how to run an online gaming network

TheNew13464d ago (Edited 3464d ago )

Evolve alpha and maybe some other things. 9,000,000 online in 1 day is impressive though.

Pandamobile3464d ago

That's 9 million online at once. Steam doesn't publicly track daily users.

mixelon3464d ago

I wonder how much that would've been boosted if Minecraft had ever made it to Steam. Weird thought.

LogicStomper3464d ago

It would have been boosted by the population of people that have played Minecraft.

mixelon3464d ago

Well yes, lol. It's difficult to tell how many are on at any one time though currently, they don't seem to track it.

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein18h ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii14h ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo13h ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows9013h ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

Michiel19894h ago

Not sure why you're getting agrees. an awful lot of console gamers are overemotional twinks ready to go to war over a plastic box, I'll take being a pc gamer then.

Speaking about overgeneralizing much.

qalpha13h ago

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Inverno13h ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan13h ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno12h ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life198113h ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

SegaSaturn6694h ago

I never liked refunding anything. Even if a film is bad, i dont want my money back. Sometimes things just aren't for me, and it's not the creator's fault necessarily.

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Why Are Steam's Recommendations Dogpoop?

Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm

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UltimateOwnage18d ago

Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.

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5 Best Metroidvania Games on Steam (March 2024)

Dive into the best Metroidvania games on Steam, from hidden gems to top-rated classics, and embark on unforgettable adventures!

jznrpg28d ago

Skul is a metroidvania ? It’s on PS+ soon I’ll check it out. If it’s good I’ll buy a copy physically if they have one

Nacho_Z28d ago

If Pseudoregalia is one of the best I'd hate to see what the worst look like.