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OfficerRaichu15 on 29 December 2014

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Talal on 29 December 2014
KilluaZoldyck said:
Talal said:
A lot of people don't log out of Steam ever (like me) still impressive though. I've had many of my friends join Steam this year. Hopefully in a little while my Steam friends will be as many as my PS4 friends or even more. Playing games with friends on PC is a lot more convenient due to the superior multitasking of PC.


So you don´t ever shut down your PC?


I only shut it down when I travel.



Drakrami on 29 December 2014
alrightiwill said:
Is that 8 million people playing any game at once? Or just 8 million logged into Steam but mightn't be playing? Impressive either way but I am always logged into Steam but rarely play.


Good point, if you count the chart, there's less than 1.5million concurrent players in their top 10. So "Over 8 million" my ass, people could be watching a movie/surfing the internet and their steam is on. 



KilluaZoldyck on 29 December 2014
Drakrami said:
alrightiwill said:
Is that 8 million people playing any game at once? Or just 8 million logged into Steam but mightn't be playing? Impressive either way but I am always logged into Steam but rarely play.


Good point, if you count the chart, there's less than 1.5million concurrent players in their top 10. So "Over 8 million" my ass, people could be watching a movie/surfing the internet and their steam is on. 



...so..? Console users could watch Netflix at the same moment. Every of those 8 million have games. I am currently not playing on Steam. I am however online and downloading Far Cry 4. Butthurt peasant.



Ruler on 29 December 2014

pretty low, even the wiiU has a higher install-base



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KilluaZoldyck on 29 December 2014
Ruler said:
pretty low, even the wiiU has a higher install-base



It´s not the install-base. Idiot. 8 million Steam users are online at the same time. There are over 100 million active Steam users.

 

http://www.pcgamer.com/steam-has-100-million-active-accounts-added-1300-new-games-in-the-past-nine-months/



Conina on 29 December 2014
Ruler said:
pretty low, even the wiiU has a higher install-base

Steam has over 100 million users in total. Not all of them use it at the same time:

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-reaches-100-million-users-and-3-700-games/1100-6422489/



Ruler on 29 December 2014
KilluaZoldyck said:
Ruler said:
pretty low, even the wiiU has a higher install-base



It´s not the install-bas. Idiot. 8 million Steam users are online at the same time. there is over 100 million active Steam users.

 

http://www.pcgamer.com/steam-has-100-million-active-accounts-added-1300-new-games-in-the-past-nine-months/


for a free program, nintendo actually managed to want people spending 300+ bucks to play WiiU games. So yeah its somewhat comperable in what is more popular 



SvennoJ on 29 December 2014
alrightiwill said:
KilluaZoldyck said:
Talal said:
A lot of people don't log out of Steam ever (like me) still impressive though. I've had many of my friends join Steam this year. Hopefully in a little while my Steam friends will be as many as my PS4 friends or even more. Playing games with friends on PC is a lot more convenient due to the superior multitasking of PC.


So you don´t ever shut down your PC?


My laptop is pretty much on 24/7 which means I'm always logged into Steam. A lot of my friends are the same way.Currently have 3 friends online with no one playing a game.

Same. My laptop does go into suspend mode some time at night, although I have set the time to 3 hours before suspend to charge controllers of my laptop. Friends are online too on Steam, status snooze.



AZWification on 29 December 2014

Steam users ( including myself) do love some good ol' Counter-Strike, eh?



                
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