Steam is doing quite well: 100% sales increase, 40 million registered accounts

[Scoobes]

im_sneaky said:

zarx said:

I actually Valve have always used active accounts in it's totals (accounts that have loged in in the past few months) and as they had a total of 35 million active accounts last year (up from 30 million the year before) 40 million active accounts sounds about right.

 

No. Steam accounts go up to around number 40,000,000 right now. Many old accounts are completely unused. I have had around 5 accounts from my counterstrike days, only one is still in use.

Typically when Valve have given the total number of accounts they only give active accounts. Your 4 unused accounts wouldn't feature in the total if they keep with their counting system.