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Forums - PC Discussion - Steam passes 125 million active users!

Can't keep a good thing down. I'll admit, I've been taking a break from steam (since ~January after beating South Park and Shadows of Mordor), so I can crack out with TLOU and GTAV on the PS4. But, it's always running on my PC, and the collection of games just continues to grow. Love it.



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Lawlight said:
Steam logs the user in by default. How many users actually go in a disable the auto-login? No idea. But I can see that there's only 6M users currently online.

Most 7th and 8th generation consoles also log the user in by default when you turn on the device. How many active users are on PSN, XBL or Nintendo Network each month?

How many concurrent users are the record on PSN, XBL or Nintendo network.

And Steam ain't preinstalled on each PC sold. You have to install it and open an account... so there are no "accidental" steam users who are counted.



GamechaserBE said:
TheDarkneSsS said:


The numbers don't say much because there are many mmo-style games tha are free and most people play them on PC/Steam (for example Marvel Heroes, Rift etc) so many of them haven't spend a single cent on other games. PC will never be the best or biggest platform as long as it's so easy to pirate everything. That's why Pc gets all the ports and most of the new games have problems. Also, no it's not cheaper at all. In the long run consoles are cheaper, because you buy one for 5-7 years and the prices of the games fall all the time (not steam sales like but it's still better).Consoles were, are and will be the future. And PC doesn't get all the exclusives so there's that as well (it's the biggest deal breaker for me).

Really? People on PC will be playing Street fighter V and Titanfall =p   Most of the exclusives announced for PS4 on the playstation event were ports from PC games ^^'..  Also BF hardline/witcher 3 are not playable with 1080p 60FPS on consoles so I am not sure where you get all the stuff you are talking about =p.


Well can you play Mario, God Of War, Zelda, Metroid, Gears Of War, Quantum Break, Uncharted, Bloodborne, until dawn, super smash bros, Mario kart, The Last Of Us, Halo, Rime and sooo many others without a console? and these are some of the best games ever created and some new ips. Who cares about titanfall and street fighter those are 3rd party games of course there coming to pc, like tomb raider 2 (eventually). Ok so i can't play witcher 3 1080p 60 frames per second but i will play it and will enjoy it and won't miss anything from the story and gameplay and the graphics will still be awesome (also you put as en example a game which the developers clearly prefer the  PC platform), but you can't play the games i listed it without a console.



TheDarkneSsS said:
GamechaserBE said:

Really? People on PC will be playing Street fighter V and Titanfall =p   Most of the exclusives announced for PS4 on the playstation event were ports from PC games ^^'..  Also BF hardline/witcher 3 are not playable with 1080p 60FPS on consoles so I am not sure where you get all the stuff you are talking about =p.


Well can you play Mario, God Of War, Zelda, Metroid, Gears Of War, Quantum Break, Uncharted, Bloodborne, until dawn, super smash bros, Mario kart, The Last Of Us, Halo, Rime and sooo many others without a console? and these are some of the best games ever created and some new ips. Who cares about titanfall and street fighter those are 3rd party games of course there coming to pc, like tomb raider 2 (eventually). Ok so i can't play witcher 3 1080p 60 frames per second but i will play it and will enjoy it and won't miss anything from the story and gameplay and the graphics will still be awesome (also you put as en example a game which the developers clearly prefer the  PC platform), but you can't play the games i listed it without a console.


so you can play mario on PS4 =p? So you need to buy three consoles? That is cheaper than PC? hmm



GamechaserBE said:
TheDarkneSsS said:


Well can you play Mario, God Of War, Zelda, Metroid, Gears Of War, Quantum Break, Uncharted, Bloodborne, until dawn, super smash bros, Mario kart, The Last Of Us, Halo, Rime and sooo many others without a console? and these are some of the best games ever created and some new ips. Who cares about titanfall and street fighter those are 3rd party games of course there coming to pc, like tomb raider 2 (eventually). Ok so i can't play witcher 3 1080p 60 frames per second but i will play it and will enjoy it and won't miss anything from the story and gameplay and the graphics will still be awesome (also you put as en example a game which the developers clearly prefer the  PC platform), but you can't play the games i listed it without a console.


so you can play mario on PS4 =p? So you need to buy three consoles? That is cheaper than PC? hmm

no you don't. I don't like mario so i don't need  to buy a wii u, but it's still a big exclusive on a console. My point is if you play only Pc you lose so many great games and some of the best in the industry.



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TheDarkneSsS said:
GamechaserBE said:

so you can play mario on PS4 =p? So you need to buy three consoles? That is cheaper than PC? hmm

no you don't. I don't like mario so i don't need  to buy a wii u, but it's still a big exclusive on a console. My point is if you play only Pc you lose so many great games and some of the best in the industry.

And so are you, by not owning all 3 consoles.



Interesting how there's 125 million active users but when it gets to money Shovel Knight generated as much revenue on PC as it did on Wii U.



TheDarkneSsS said:

Well can you play Mario, God Of War, Zelda, Metroid, Gears Of War, Quantum Break, Uncharted, Bloodborne, until dawn, super smash bros, Mario kart, The Last Of Us, Halo, Rime and sooo many others without a console? and these are some of the best games ever created and some new ips. Who cares about titanfall and street fighter those are 3rd party games of course there coming to pc, like tomb raider 2 (eventually).

Wow wow. The Darkness, how appropriate. Just so you know, PC has the largest number of exclusives than any other platform. And most of the games you named can be played on PC, with enhanced visuals and framerate.



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GamechaserBE said:
TheDarkneSsS said:


Well can you play Mario, God Of War, Zelda, Metroid, Gears Of War, Quantum Break, Uncharted, Bloodborne, until dawn, super smash bros, Mario kart, The Last Of Us, Halo, Rime and sooo many others without a console? and these are some of the best games ever created and some new ips. Who cares about titanfall and street fighter those are 3rd party games of course there coming to pc, like tomb raider 2 (eventually). Ok so i can't play witcher 3 1080p 60 frames per second but i will play it and will enjoy it and won't miss anything from the story and gameplay and the graphics will still be awesome (also you put as en example a game which the developers clearly prefer the  PC platform), but you can't play the games i listed it without a console.


so you can play mario on PS4 =p? So you need to buy three consoles? That is cheaper than PC? hmm

Three consoles? You need at least 5 consoles if you want to play all the games he mentioned. ;)



mornelithe said:
TheDarkneSsS said:
GamechaserBE said:

so you can play mario on PS4 =p? So you need to buy three consoles? That is cheaper than PC? hmm

no you don't. I don't like mario so i don't need  to buy a wii u, but it's still a big exclusive on a console. My point is if you play only Pc you lose so many great games and some of the best in the industry.

And so are you, by not owning all 3 consoles.

Actually no. I don't own a wii u or 3ds. So i can play everything except nintendo games which i don't care about so no loss for me there. But you are limited only to multiplatform games. Oh yeah and mobas and mmos.