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Steam Passes 30M Users

[Oct 18, 2010, 11:19 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Valve announces that Steam has surpassed the 30 million account mark. Here's word on some of what this represents:

During the past 12 months the platform had year-over-year new user growth of 178%, pushing the total number of active accounts to over 30 million, with over 1,200 games now offered. Peak simultaneous player numbers were also up to over three million, with over six million unique gamers accessing Steam each day.

In addition to new user growth, Steam sales during the trailing 12 months increased by more than 200%, putting it on track for a sixth straight year of realizing over 100% year-over-year growth in unit sales. To meet this demand, the Steam infrastructure has been increased and now has ability to run at 400Gps, enough bandwidth to ship a digitized version of the Oxford English Dictionary 92.6 times per second.

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Re: Steam Passes 30M Users

Oct 18, 2010, 23:15

wtf_man

How can they be "completely anonymous" when they have your CC info? What? you don't think they correlate the info they collect with your account info? And it's not just Steam collecting info... you have to sign up with Microsoft GFWL, or EA or other publishers, or the Dev Studio, etc. and they "track and publish your achievements"... and if you "refuse to participate" you can't play your game (My primary complaint in my original post). I'm sorry. I just don't like that shit, nor do I want it being forced down my throat. Also... anyone thinks that Valve isn't tracking their activities, is being fairly naive, IMO. It's much like how search engines track your activities to serve up targeted advertising to you. I really DON'T want to participate in that. Just leave me the fuck alone and let me play my game. /shrug

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Comment [quote="wtf_man"Oct 18, 2010, 23:15]How can they be "completely anonymous" when they have your CC info? What? you don't think they correlate the info they collect with your account info? And it's not just Steam collecting info... you have to sign up with Microsoft GFWL, or EA or other publishers, or the Dev Studio, etc. and they "track and publish your achievements"... and if you "refuse to participate" you can't play your game (My primary complaint in my original post). I'm sorry. I just don't like that shit, nor do I want it being forced down my throat. Also... anyone thinks that Valve isn't tracking their activities, is being fairly naive, IMO. It's much like how search engines track your activities to serve up targeted advertising to you. I really DON'T want to participate in that. Just leave me the fuck alone and let me play my game. /shrug [/quote]

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