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.
I have only purchased one game from Steam (Dragon Age:Digital Deluxe). For the record, I really don't care to be "tracked" by Valve NOR the Publisher of a game, so I have mostly avoided Steam.
It's none of their fucking business how I've played the game, the achievements I've attained, what my hardware is, etc. etc. - none of it.
That said... if I ever decide to re-play Dragon Age... I'll probably get a torrent version. Offline is supposed to fucking mean OFFLINE ... NOT "Oh you have DLC in your saved game?... you have to be logged into Bioware to load your Saved game).
-Not exactly Steam's fault... but a warning would have been appreciated, because I consider that requirement as being "3rd party DRM" that was "not listed".
So my point is.... Steam is far from perfect... and to be honest, I'd still rather buy a physical copy, and then find a no-dvd (and/or other DRM thwarting) crack.
It's none of their fucking business how I've played the game, the achievements I've attained, what my hardware is, etc. etc. - none of it.
That said... if I ever decide to re-play Dragon Age... I'll probably get a torrent version. Offline is supposed to fucking mean OFFLINE ... NOT "Oh you have DLC in your saved game?... you have to be logged into Bioware to load your Saved game).
-Not exactly Steam's fault... but a warning would have been appreciated, because I consider that requirement as being "3rd party DRM" that was "not listed".
So my point is.... Steam is far from perfect... and to be honest, I'd still rather buy a physical copy, and then find a no-dvd (and/or other DRM thwarting) crack.
Get your games from GOG DAMMIT!
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