Steam rises to 65 million active users, eclipsing Xbox Live

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HigHurtenflurst said:

Arcturus said:

JEMC said:

Arcturus said:
How do they define an 'active user'?

Probably the ones with Steam installed on its PC/Smartphone and that uses the device.

Congrats to Valve with the milestone.

So I would be counted as a active user, even though I've only used Steam to download and play one game three years ago?

I doubt it... there is probably a timescale on it. My guess would be users who played a game in the last month or week.

The "concurrent steam users" graph currently waves between 3 and 6 million users at once over the course of a day (though that figure may be purely steam client users online, which means those who have it log them in on startup but not necessarily playing a game)

You're just assuming there, right?