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.
Beamer wrote on Oct 18, 2010, 18:00:I wonder how many of those 30 million users signed up just for Peggle or Puzzle Quest. The data would be more meaningful to "core" PC gamers if it broke down exactly what those people were playing.
Steam stats has it, kind of sort of.
Right now 2.1 million people are online. Of that, 268k are playing one of the top 100 games (so how many of those 2.1 million people are signed in and not actively using Steam? How many haven't actively used it in over a week?)
Of that arguably 1301 are playing non-hardcore games. I put Plants v. Zombies, Puzzle Quest 2 and AudioSurf there. Could have added the football managers, too, which would have made it about 4,000.
10%+ of signed in users are currently playing top 100 games, thats pretty impressive to me.
Also the 2.1 million is a bit less than 10% of the 30 million active accounts, so simultaneous logged in accounts in use at this particular moment of time. Thats not bad at all either.
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