Steam hits over 40m concurrent users

[Chazore]

JRPGfan said:

G2ThaUNiT said:

It’s amazing how big Steam has gotten by just existing lol. You’re never going to find any marketing or anything that the likes of Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo need to spend to get word out about their hardware or games. You’ll never find Steam marketing rights to major third party games. Players literally just go to Steam.

A good product sells itself.
Doesn't hurt they where first to market, and have the good of the gamer at heart (valve/steam do some proactive stuff to protect consumers).
Like the store front is so well done, most won't even use another, if they give out free games from time to time.
Its like the direct opposite situation of the windows store. People actively avoid buying certain games, mainly because of the store.

At this point, I have like 100+ steam games and the same on Epic game store.
However almost all epic games where free gifts, and tbh I rather play on steam (if I have the same game both places).

All it took for me was to buy Gears of War 1 Remasters yrs ago on Win store to realise I would never want to buy from MS on their storefront ever again. Could not mod the game, worse off performance, and it was also locked away in a folder on my own desktop that I couldn't even tweak/modify. 

Also tried to gift someone Minecraft Bedrock, so they could play with me, MS took my money, but didn't give me the code, and this happened twice, and because it was digital, they wouldn't offer me any such refund, so I felt cheated to fuck. At that point I just outright didn't like MS when it come to their services/storefront business. This is also why I won't touch GP or the "xbox app", not when I have Steam. 

Steam just does everything I want it to for the most part. Lets me customise my profile, let's me sort who can/cannot see what games I have, or access to my profile. I can block certain devs/publishers, games I do not wish to see. I can sort out what tags I prefer to see more games that I may like, etc. Also Steam having build in mod support is really nice, and I can customise their in-game overlay to what I want/do not want to see.

Every other storefront client on PC is just decades behind, and none of them really bother, nor desire to catch up to what Valve toiled away towards. I know to them it doesn't "make money", but it does in fact earn you favour and mindshare, which can eventually lead to possible profit, but the CEO's and those in charge of the clients simply do not see it that way. 

Also a recent example. Valve/R* are allowing users to pre-load GTA V enhanced on Steam. Epic to this day still doesn't allow you to pre-load on their own client, and because most EGS users do not know this info to this day, and because they have no EGS forums like Steam has, these users then come all the way to post on the GTA V Steam forums to ask if EGS will allow for pre-load, and that to me is just so god damn sad to see...