Steam rises to 65 million active users, eclipsing Xbox Live

[Scoobes]

Lawlight said:

Scoobes said:

Lawlight said:

And Origin has 50M.

That's registered users, not active.

And do we know what Valve means by active users? Am I an active user just because Steam loads on boot up on my laptop?

Seriously? This has been covered multiple times in this thread already:

1. Have purchased a game

2. Have logged in to Steam within the last 30 days

If you don't meet both those criteria then you're not an active user. The 50M figure you quoted isn't directly comparable as it's just registered users. I know people who have accounts on Origin to play Simpsons Tapped Out for instance. They haven't logged in for over a month but they'd still be counted.