Steam Passes 30M Users [Oct 18, 2010, 10:19 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.
I learned that fact after buying it and I never installed it. I think it was like 2.99$ when I bought it and not sure I will ever install it. I hate such requirements.
I was pretty peeved. Not sure if I missed the requirement on the Steam page or it wasn't there, probably the former. If I didn't have XBL I would have done what you did.
The game is pretty fun. It's apparently almost exactly Flatout 2, which I never played. It's a huge step up over Flatout 1, though, and avoids most of what I hated about that game (which I dug a ton, but had some serious flaws.) I read some reviews that complain about it being hard, but honestly I'm finding it very easy to get the gold on every single racing event (and I'm playing with a keyboard.) Still satisfying.
One of the better $2.99 Steam sale purchases I've made. Stupid fun, but a lot of it. Most of the other $2.99 purchases I've made have either been rebuying games I have on CD or, like this, taking a risk on an older game which I often never even install. Speaking of, time to finally give Mount & Blade a go.
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