Steam reaches new peak of over 7 million concurrent users

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In late October, Valve announced that its Steam game download service had reached a new high of over 65 million accounts worldwide, 10 years after the first beta client was released. Today, the number of concurrent Steam users reached a new record as well as it surpassed the 7 million mark for the first time.

The new record was reached just a few hours ago, according to Valve's own stats page, and peaked at 7,190,518 users. Part of the reason for the new surge is the ongoing Steam Autumn Sale, which launched earlier this week with big price cuts on many of the over 3,000 games in Valve's library of titles. If Valve's number of over 65 million total Steam users are correct, that means that well over 10 percent of them were logged in at once today. Steam saw the 6 million concurrent user mark broken during last year's autumn sale.

The new surge in user numbers comes as Valve is preparing to enter a new phase of its Steam service, with plans to launch its own SteamOS that can run games natively as well as stream Windows-based games to televisions. It will also work with third parties to launch Steam Machines based on the OS, along with a new Steam Controller with touchpads instead of analog sticks.

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BigRedMachinePosted:

Steam is a great PC platform, that will grow further as more people are doing PC gaming.

RantPosted:

Lavish
fknvlink
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OfficialLeon
Lavish
-Pig Steam is such a good platform for pc gamers. I hope that the steamOS is just as good


Where did you hear about a SteamOS?
Do you mean the steam box?


SteamOS is going to be a linux based OS strictly for steam. NO he doesn't mean steam box.


Interesting.
I won't be one of the people using it.

I don't like Linux much.


if you are on a crappy pc struggling to run games then it might be worth your while. However you could always dual boot windows and steamOS so you use steamOS solely for games and windows for everything else.


I have an amazing PC, lol.
i7 3770k
GTA 680
16GB Ram
1 TB HDD
256 GB SSD


My PC that I'm using right now is horrible. Its our family PC from like 2002. T_T

TywinPosted:

fknvlink
Lavish
OfficialLeon
Lavish
-Pig Steam is such a good platform for pc gamers. I hope that the steamOS is just as good


Where did you hear about a SteamOS?
Do you mean the steam box?


SteamOS is going to be a linux based OS strictly for steam. NO he doesn't mean steam box.


Interesting.
I won't be one of the people using it.

I don't like Linux much.


if you are on a crappy pc struggling to run games then it might be worth your while. However you could always dual boot windows and steamOS so you use steamOS solely for games and windows for everything else.


I have an amazing PC, lol.
i7 3770k
GTA 680
16GB Ram
1 TB HDD
256 GB SSD

TywinPosted:

Yop With the new games coming around, and new games that are out, and Christmas around the corner, it may reach 10 million users.


I think around Christmas evening or December 26th, Steam has a real shot at breaking this record they just set.
People getting knew games and getting new PC's.

Index_AddictPosted:

This is completely understandable. Before steam was even created most people had to go out and buy disks and install them. Some games such as egames had viruses built with them that nobody knew about for a long time. If the persons game got lost or broke they would more then likely have to buy a new one. With steam its easy to manage and understand. You can keep track of all your games install and uninstall with ease. You can even communicate and play with friends as well as join groups. I'm honestly Surprised That it doesn't have more users then what it does.

YopPosted:

With the new games coming around, and new games that are out, and Christmas around the corner, it may reach 10 million users.

322Posted:

Lavish
OfficialLeon
Lavish
-Pig Steam is such a good platform for pc gamers. I hope that the steamOS is just as good


Where did you hear about a SteamOS?
Do you mean the steam box?


SteamOS is going to be a linux based OS strictly for steam. NO he doesn't mean steam box.


Interesting.
I won't be one of the people using it.

I don't like Linux much.


if you are on a crappy pc struggling to run games then it might be worth your while. However you could always dual boot windows and steamOS so you use steamOS solely for games and windows for everything else.

KatsumiPosted:

Lot Thats is alot of concurrent users and will soon be like 10 million


I could see it getting that high eventually. Steam has been really picking up as of late

LotPosted:

Thats is alot of concurrent users and will soon be like 10 million

TywinPosted:

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iLewis Wow, 7 million.. The population of London on Steam. Now onto 8 Million!!


That's exactly what I was thinking lol. So many users.


I wonder what the record is for concurrent people playing.


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