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.
theyarecomingforyou wrote on Oct 19, 2010, 05:35:Also, apart from supporting developers the one and only thing that keeps me from pirating every single game is being able to touch the box.. open the manual for no reason at all (maybe to smell it?) because no sane person has to read in it.. and have the sense that I actually ACQUIRED something that makes up for the 49 euros out of my wallet.
So you don't really care for gaming but like cheap, flimsy booklets? Yeah, that's not at all irrational.
I don't know how the hell you missed it, but I was talking about the fact that I feel no difference between buying a digital game or pirating a digital game. Unlike when you actually acquired a hardcopy, box, manual, etc, for the same money. In other, simple words: Give me a solid reason APART from supporting the developers (which I mentioned above already) why I should buy a digital version while I would experience/get the exact same thing through pirating it.
I have no idea how you could've possibly missed that point. I guess you're one of those people who just do their best to misinterpret things others say for the sake of starting a shallow, pointless discussion. *sigh*
I thought Hollywood had hit rock buttom. Then this happened.
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