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So people like to say here, oh look at Steam put 5 milion concurrent users, thats more than XBL or PSN.

I must say this is a fake, the reason this happen is because when i and more milions of people turn their Pc on Steam begans automatically and we dont even know about it, it happens with me and all my friends who use Steam, i had to remove Steam app from my Pc because of That.

So every time someone with Steam turn on his Pc Steam starts and you dont even know, that explains the awfull statistics in game users.

Current Players Peak Today   Game
 
50,657 72,493   Dota 2
40,609 57,934   Team Fortress 2
36,426 53,108   Counter-Strike
29,991 58,090   Football Manager 2012
28,169 47,464   Counter-Strike: Source
20,011 35,392   Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 - Multiplayer
19,693 50,779   Sid Meier's Civilization V
19,010 39,446   The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
7,874 16,837   Left 4 Dead 2
7,284 12,414   Garry's Mod

Last time i saw alone on Psn their were 350K people on Black Ops, that alone is more than everyone playing on Steam (Games) at the same time.

Probably over 600K at same time on Mw3 yesterday on Xbox Live.

So Steam numers are a Fake and games numbers are awfully low compared to Consoles.



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There are still a lot more people playing on PC. If you just added WOW, LOL, SC2, BF3... and whatever the hell people in China and Russia are playing the numbers would be much higher than whatever OSN or XB LIVE is showing.



Yeah, many Steam users collect games rather than play them.



People like to overestimate Steam, ask Shio.

Anyway, these numbers are not fake. It is called spinning. Whenever someone logs into XBL or PSN, you can be almost sure he is using the service. (Games, VoD, Live TV, Apps, whatever). Steam only offers games. No VoDs, Live TV or any sort of Apps. Steam is an app.

Anyway, when I watch a DVD on my Xbox and my Xbox Live account is logged in, I am as active on XBL as the you are on steam when you start your PC to watch porn. But that is the only case I know, where someone is logged in (PSN or XBL), but not using the something of the consoles ecosystem.



Imagine not having GamePass on your console...

While your main point is probably true, you don't have to uninstall Steam to stop it running from start-up, there is the option to leave it off until you want to play a game.



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Where did you get that chart? Was that from their site?



You know you can go into settings -> interface and uncheck the box that says "run steam when my computer starts" and it won't start up right?

Besides just starting up doesn't mean playing a game. Unless I click to start my game (e.g. Skyrim) then it won't show me as playing that game.




starcraft: "I and every PS3 fanboy alive are waiting for Versus more than FFXIII.
Me since the games were revealed, the fanboys since E3."

Skeeuk: "playstation 3 is the ultimate in gaming acceleration"

i had to remove Steam app from my Pc because of That.


There is a free progame called WinPatrol that you can use to stop progames from running at start up, and can make your PC run faster.



 

NintendoPie said:
Where did you get that chart? Was that from their site

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/




starcraft: "I and every PS3 fanboy alive are waiting for Versus more than FFXIII.
Me since the games were revealed, the fanboys since E3."

Skeeuk: "playstation 3 is the ultimate in gaming acceleration"

How are they fake? They are the number of people logged into steam, there is nothing fake about them, they are exactly what they say they are.

Now if we want to talk about large player numbers there is always League of Legends with it's 1.3m concurrent players. As of november last year so probably closer to 1.5m by now if not 2m, I mean in early 2011 it was averaging just 500k peak per day so that is more than 100% growth in under a year. And LoL isn't on Steam.



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