Steam breaks 6 million concurrent users.

Steam breaks 6 million concurrent users.

[Intentions]

Mainly cause of Dota 2. :D

And the discounts/sales.

[NewMonday]

A great service , hope W8 dosn't screw them, is it viable for them to make a dedicated Steam OS that loads on startup?

[Finalfantasykid]

It probably would not be hard since they now have steam running on Linux. They are probably planning to just have a linux distro dedicated to just running steam, which could eventually be used for the rumoured (I think?) Steam Console.

[Apocwhen]

The problem is 9 out of 10 games on PC use DirectX to run. DirectX is a Microsoft Library so you need Windows to use it.

There is some DirectX emulation under Linux but it's never been all that great.

[vortis]

Dat discount...

[konnerbllb]

There isn't anything I dislike more than that three letter word used online. Grow up.

[Feralkitsune]

It won't happen. the language is dying more and more everyday. Blame lazy parents and getting brain deficient kids cellphones.

[HenryFord]

Language is not something you make up and everyone has to go the route which has been laid down before them. Language is evolving with the people speaking it - you probably should grow up and finally realize that you are not the center of the world.

[Feralkitsune]

@HenryFord, tell that to their teachers when they are getting marked down for not knowing how to form a coherent sentence. Sorry, I meant #Y0L0Sw@G4Lyf3

[BattleAxe]

Steam is growing by leaps and bounds. I think it was less than a year ago when they hit 5 million concurrent users online at one time.

[Zha1tan]

A mere year ago it was 4 million users now 6 million?!

Oh sorry I was sitting here thinking PC gaming was dying because of all these "brilliantly written" articles on N4G..

[MAJ0R]

That "PC gaming is dying" was just hyperbole to get hits. Anyone who thinks a superior gaming platform which is constantly having amazing deals on games and is cheaper in the long run is dying doesn't know what they're talking about.

[Somebody]

I was finally getting my games in order after the Steam Summer Sale. Finishing off the the games one by one...then, Steam's Autumn Sale appeared. Just when I thought the backlog was going to disappear, Steam dumped more discounts and bundles on me.

[tallkidoPL]

oh shit pc gaming is dying lolololo
also dota 2 is in "beta" so not every1 has it

[Tetsujin]

Hows Steam on Linux, I was thinking of giving it a chance if it came to it 100% but can someone at least speak from personal experience on it?

[FrostyZipper]

I remember a few years back when everyone used to HATE this program with a passion. Now it's something no self-respecting PC Gamer should be without. Just curious though; I thought Steam had surmounted 6 million users yonks ago.

[SolDojo]

Concurrent, as in, there was 6 million people either playing a game, have it running in background, or looking at the store at one time.

I'm sure they had 6 million accounts long ago, yes.

[ElementX]

Well I was on Steam yesterday buying game for the computer I built on Saturday. It isn't top of the line, but it runs games great.

ASRock Z77 Extreme4 MB
3rd Gen i5 3570k quad core @3.4Ghz
8Ghz RAM
Geforce GTX 660 with 2GB RAM

It's not the top of the line but it's a huge upgrade over my old Core Duo with an 8800GT video card. Microcenter had the i5 for $170, $20 cheaper than Amazon's "lightning" deal!

I was mainly a PC gamer in the early days of PS2 and Xbox then have been a console gamer since. My old PC ran Minecraft with a 128 texture pack at about 70FPS, my new one gets 170-230FPS. Everything loads almost instantly and there's no lag when I look over a mountain and the scenery is loaded. I bought Metro 2033 and it runs really nice. My monitor doesn't support ultra high resolutions however, but everything looks amazing none-the-less

[ElementX]

Should say 8GB RAM :) oh and it's 1600.

[usmantherockstar]

Cooool;