Steam Turns 30 Million Plus

Post by Steve Farrelly @ 10:23am 19/10/10 | 10 Comments

Valve have sent through word they've grown some 178% in account growth and 200% in sales with more than 200 Steamworks games shipped on the platform to-date.

"Steam is on track to record the biggest year in its six year history," said Gabe Newell, president of Valve. "The year has marked major development advances to the platform with the introduction of support for Mac titles, the Steam Wallet and in-game item buying support, and more. We believe the growth in accounts, sales, and player numbers is completely tied to this work and we plan to continue to develop the platform to offer more marketing, sales, and design tools for developers and publishers of games and digital entertainment"

According to Valve, they have more than 30 million active accounts with more than 1200 games on offer. Looks like the PC is picking up steam again (sorry) - watch out consoles!

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groganus
Posted 10:33am 19/10/10

As it was mentioned in dans interview with the devs of duke forever, this console generation is expecting to last another 5 years, pc graphics are going to continue to push the limit, whilst consoles have a good share of the market, pc gaming isnt going anywhere, especially when you have dev's like blizzard still making games for the pc.

Whilst blizzards games aren't through steam it keeps a playerbase of pc gamers at there machines thus making other titles accessible.

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demon
Posted 10:36am 19/10/10

yay steam... ripping off au gamers is now FULLY AUTOMATED! ;p

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Snakeman
Posted 10:39am 19/10/10

Yeh I put $100 in the steam wallet a couple of weeks ago. I've used up $20 of it to buy the keys in TF2 to unlock the crates ($2.50 per key) . I totally got sucked right into opening these crates but its worth it.

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scuzzy
Posted 10:49am 19/10/10

Is it also the biggest year for Gabe Newell?

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konstie
Posted 11:14am 19/10/10

yay steam... ripping off au gamers is now FULLY AUTOMATED! ;p

haven't we established that steam do not set the prices for games that aren't produced by valve?

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tequila
Posted 01:35pm 19/10/10

just bought a new ps3 today after my old 60gb died a slow and painful death

f*** you, valve!

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fpot
Posted 04:31pm 19/10/10

ps3s die? My world has been turned upside down I thought they were as invincible as Boris.

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thermite
Posted 04:38pm 19/10/10

honestly if some of the games i've bought for consoles were playable on the pc i would play them more. I can't be bothered getting out of my qgl/wank seat and go to the couch just to play a game.

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paveway
Posted 04:59pm 19/10/10

that's awesome thermite

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BoneyD
Posted 03:20am 22/10/10

yay steam... ripping off au gamers is now FULLY AUTOMATED! ;p

haven't we established that steam do not set the prices for games that aren't produced by valve?

True, but Steam provides the means for the developers to block off customers from shopping over country lines. They didn't do this initally, but when they noticed how many people were actually buying games for a change (i.e. 'cause we weren't getting royally screwed with 10 year old RRPs), they thought they'd exploit that new market...

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