120 million active users monthly, 62 million daily?!?

Daily!

First time purchasers 2.6 million PER MONTH.

Gabe must sleep on a pile of money.

I think it's pretty telling that EA came back to Steam after dumping a few hundred million into Origin.

I have nothing against the EGS, it's just a really lackluster client by comparison. I get free games on there and never play them, its become a game unto itself. I've noticed many developers say DLC sales are abysmal on the platform and that many hold back DLC after their exclusivity period passes for the Steam release. I wonder how many devs will bother with exclusivity when they aren't being paid for it, probably none I would imagine. I think it's really hard to hit that feature/integration level that Steam has, its really robust and well done. Every time I play a multiplayer game on EGS I end up thinking how much better it would be with Steam instead.

But I'm glad for competition and all that. Good to keep Valve honest.

With stats like that, why any publisher would choose to go exclusive on EGS and|or their proprietary launcher is beyond me. The goal is to reach as many consumers as possible, and right now, on PC, Steam is the only platform with that reach. 120 million monthly active users is bonkers. That's more than Playstation (~103m), Xbox Live (~90m), and Epic Games Store (~61m).