Valve's Steam service for PC distribution and sales has over 65 million users playing its over 3,000 games, the company announced this afternoon. That's a 30 percent increase (15 million accounts) over the last 12 months -- not too shabby! -- putting the service's userbase well above that of Microsoft's Xbox Live (which has 48 million, according to MS). Not quite the 110 million that belong to Sony's PlayStation Network, but not too shabby.
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
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Players can pay to edit their character, resurrect the dead and other actions.
Yet Helldivers 2 gets a pass? Y’know a GotY contender by the name of RE4 had them and so does Devil May Cry V. The funny thing is I enjoyed both of those games thoroughly without having to buy a single microtransaction.
What I do consider a valid complaint is not being able to start a new game or being able to edit your character. That’s kind of a seriously baffling decision, but then I think how I played Dragon’s Dogma 1 and I never edited my character and I just did a 100% playthrough on a single file and didn’t start a NG since. So, I don’t think these are really going to impact me, but I can see how it will others.
I was going to pay full price to support this game because I've been waiting for it for forever but I think I'll wait until I get it for free from Epic or a Humblebundle monthly.
I am not defending Capcom, as I am not a fan of MTX in single player games. I do however belive they were open to reviewers about having MTX in their game. The reviewers just decided to leave that part out. Which is very disingenuous. There are some companies that get away with these things. Image if this was done by EA, Ubisoft, or even Activision? I am positive those defending Capcom, would have had their pitchforks ready if the companies listed above did this
Good job Valve and congrats on the 65 Million figure.
What i find spectacular this is all on a single platform. Plus it doesnt reset like in the case of the consoles. Where PS4 and XBone will need to make a user base from zero.
Steam numbers keep growing, PC probably will be a strong contender next gen. Specially since Sony and MS are now so much behind Steam with their new consoles.
I personally have 3 friends who went PC gaming with Steam this gen and ended up purchasing many games. All of us will be buying the next gen consoles, however this will be once the consoles actually have good exclusives. For multiplat games we shall be sticking with the PC.
Steam and Sony - Knowing what the gamer wants ever since the 90's/Y2K!
PS3 80 million sold
x360 80 million sold
wii 100 million sold
PSP 80 million sold
DS 150 million sold
so every console has more users than steam. interesting
Thats awesome to hear
No Way. PC Gaming is dying right? After all a lot of console gamers are claiming Rockstar wont bring GTA V to PC because there isn't enough PC gamers or they blame Piracy (As if piracy isn't ripe on consoles too)
(Dont get your panties in a twist. I was kidding)
After all a lot of console gamers are claiming Rockstar wont bring GTA V to PC because there isn't enough PC gamers or they blame Piracy (As if piracy isn't ripe on consoles too)