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.
Beamer wrote on Oct 18, 2010, 22:21:
Seriously, those stats actually get used to make the games better.
Uh... they're probably used more for marketing than anything.
That said.. all that shit should be "Opt-in" by default... not "Opt-Out" or "No option at all".
I don't LIKE people tracking me, especially without my permission.
I know in this Orewellian technical age that it can't be helped... but I try to minimize it as much as possible... browser set to not cache anything, extensions to clean out flash cookies, adblock and no-script enabled, avoid social networking sites, etc. etc.
You probably will think it's some silly Paranoia... but I do feel like Number 6 on the Internet Grid. (And I'm dating myself with that comment).
Get your games from GOG DAMMIT!
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