Steam rises to 65 million active users, eclipsing Xbox Live

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Scoobes said:

Lawlight said:

Rhonin the wizard said:

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?

adriane23 said:
I wonder if I'm counted in that. I haven't played a steam game in almost 5 months, but I'm always logged in and I recently made purchases.

Rhonin the wizard said:

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

Valve's definition of an active user:

1) User must have purchased something ever

2) Have logged in within the last 30 days

You can stop Steam from running when the computer stars, the option is in Settings>Interface.

Do we have a source for that?

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=25057279&postcount=323

"We define "active" as an account that owns at least one game and have logged in over the last 30 days."

So, I am considered to be an active account even though I haven't used Steam for months now.